Kays Creek Parkway, a hundred acres of creek trail on Layton's east side

Layton City lists four, each with a street address. The Adam J. Welker trailhead is at 2700 North 2125 East, the Canyon View trailhead at 2360 East Canyon View Drive, the Oak Forest trailhead at 2459 East 2750 North, and the Lower trailhead at 2210 North 1450 East. Canyon View is the one to know first, because it also reaches Hobbs Reservoir and it is where the soft loop trail runs.

The corridor is more than 100 acres of linear open space, and Layton counts 25 parking spaces at the 2125 East door, the Adam J. Welker trailhead. It publishes no parking count for the other three. That ratio is the most useful thing to know about the place: a hundred acres of creek gully with one small lot on it is a corridor for the streets it runs behind, not a park you drive to. On a fine Saturday morning the doors fill and the trail itself stays quiet, so the local habit is to walk in from a side street.

About 2.5 miles of paved trail, plus just under a mile of soft trail around Hobbs Reservoir. In practice that is two different outings from the same corridor: the reservoir loop, under a mile of soft surface and roughly an hour with stops, and the paved run down the gully, a couple of hours out and back. The trail follows the North Fork of Kays Creek below street level, with wildlife placards along it, which is why it feels more remote than the map suggests.

Yes, on a leash, and that matters more in Layton than it would elsewhere. The city's two largest parks, Layton Commons and Ellison, both ban dogs. This corridor does not, so for a household that walks a dog every day it is the one big piece of Layton open space that welcomes them, and the one that feels least like a suburb.

Yes, under the strictest fishing rule on any water in Davis County, and it is the state's rule rather than the city's. Hobbs is artificial flies and lures only, with a limit of two trout under fifteen inches and everything over fifteen inches released, which makes bait fishing there illegal. It is open year round for fishing only, with no swimming, no motors, and non-motorized watercraft only. The Davis County lakeside parks page carries the current rules for it and for the city's other two reservoirs.

A funded project rather than a route you can walk yet. It is the Kays Creek Trail Pedestrian Overpass at the Layton FrontRunner station, backed by an added 677,000 dollars in Davis County transportation money, with a completion deadline the county extended to 30 June 2026. As of 2026, the underground infrastructure was in and the city was waiting on the state to authorize the traffic signal. That deadline has passed, and nothing published says whether the bridge is finished, open, or delayed again, so treat it as funded but not yet a walkable connection.

Possibly, and it is worth settling before you buy a house whose back fence is the trail. Some trail accounts describe Layton working with private landowners to keep parts of the corridor open to the public, which would mean a stretch of it runs on an arrangement rather than on public ground. The city's own parks records and general plan are the place to confirm it, and a public trail on public land is a different proposition for a buyer than a public trail across someone's field.

Yes. Layton publishes no hours, no fee, and no seasonal closure for the corridor, and the reservoir at the top of it is open year round for fishing. The catch is surface, not access: the gully holds mud through the spring thaw and keeps packed snow and ice in the shaded stretches into late winter, and the soft trail around the reservoir suffers most. Wear boots rather than road shoes from about November through April, and expect the loop to be slower than its distance suggests.

No, and keeping the two straight explains the east side of Layton. This corridor follows the North Fork of Kays Creek down a gully in the northeast of the city. Adams Canyon, a couple of miles south, carries the North Fork of Holmes Creek, which leaves the national forest, passes the trailhead the city rebuilt, and ends in Holmes Creek Reservoir at 2692 East Gentile Street, a bass water you need a state walk-in permit to enter. Two creeks, two corridors, two reservoirs, and Layton's whole east side is organized around them.