Lake to bench Lindon
Twenty years, three phases, one continuous surface
The Lindon Heritage Trail, finished at last in 2025
Six and a half paved miles running east to west across the whole width of Lindon, from 1200 East at the edge of a foothill nature park down to Pioneer Road and the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail. The three phases, the thirteen year gap, the 0.85 mile segment that closed it in August 2025, which direction to ride, and the two much larger trail systems it meets at either end.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
The Lindon Heritage Trail is a paved city trail that runs east to west across the whole width of Lindon, 6.5 miles from the foothills down to the lakeshore. It starts at 1200 East, on the edge of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Nature Park up against the Timpanogos foothills, and finishes at Pioneer Road, less than a mile from Utah Lake, where it joins the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail near the marina. It is a shared use surface, so walkers, runners, cyclists and horses use the same asphalt. The trail was built in three pieces over about twenty years, and the last of them opened in August 2025, which is why so many older maps still show it stopping in the middle of the city. The whole length runs at a steady gradient, so which way you ride matters more than how far.
The trail in numbers
6.5 mi
end to end, fully paved
2008
when the first phase opened on the bench
0.85 mi
the final segment, opened in 2025
26 Aug 2025
the ribbon cutting, with Vineyard
Three phases, about twenty years
A trail built in pieces, with a thirteen year gap in the middle
So much published material about Lindon still describes a trail that stops in the middle of the city because it was built in three separate efforts, and the last one only landed in August 2025.
The first phase opened in 2008, up on the bench at the eastern end, where the trail runs beside the Bonneville Shoreline and the canal trail. The second phase, in 2012, pushed west to Pioneer Lane near the Lake Side Power Station, and then the work stopped. For the next thirteen years Lindon had two separate trail systems in one city: a bench section up against the foothills and, down by the water, the lakeshore trail, with a gap in the middle you could not ride through.
The final 0.85 mile segment closed that gap. It picks up south of the power station, crosses the Lindon city line into Vineyard, and ties into the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail near the Lindon Marina. Because the alignment leaves Lindon before it reaches the shoreline trail, the last piece took two cities to build, and Lindon and Vineyard cut the ribbon together on 26 August 2025. The project was paid for over the years with city funds, transportation money and outside grants.
All of which is why a map matters here. A route drawn before the autumn of 2025 shows the trail ending at a power station in the middle of the west side, and a great deal of mapping data, printed guides and even some signage still does.
The three phases
Riding it, and which way round
One direction is a descent and the other one is training
The single most useful piece of advice about this trail is to think about which end you start at. The eastern end sits against the foothills and the western end sits nearly at lake level, so the whole 6.5 miles has a consistent gradient in it. Starting at 1200 East and heading west is a long easy roll. Starting at Pioneer Road and heading east is a sustained climb that gets steeper as it goes, and the last part of it, where the trail gains the nature park, is the hardest section on the route.
For a one way trip with two cars or a lift, east to west is the obvious choice and it finishes at the water, which is a better place to end a ride than a parking lot on a hillside. For an out and back, starting at the bottom means the climb comes first and the return is free, which is the sensible order in July when the afternoon heat is the real enemy.
Access is spread along the length rather than concentrated. The eastern end at 1200 East beside the nature park is the natural start, the western end at Pioneer Road puts you at the lakeshore junction, and the trail is crossed by residential streets and by the commercial corridor in between, so joining it from a Lindon address usually means riding a block or two rather than driving anywhere at all.
It works in every month. The surface is paved, the alignment is low, and the western two thirds are close to flat, which makes it usable in weather that closes the softer ground above the city. The eastern climb holds shade and cold longer than the rest, so winter riding is easier from the bottom up.
| East to west | West to east | |
|---|---|---|
| What it feels like | A continuous, gentle descent for most of its length | A sustained climb that steepens toward the top |
| Where you start | 1200 East, beside the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Nature Park | Pioneer Road, near the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail junction |
| Where you finish | The lakeshore, less than a mile from the water | The foothills, with the bench trailheads above you |
| Best for | A one way ride with a lift at the far end | An out and back that gets the work done first |
| In July | Comfortable in either half of the day | Morning only; the climb is exposed |
| In January | Fine on the flat two thirds, cold and shaded at the top | The better direction, because the climb warms you up |
The trail is shared use for its whole length, carrying walkers, runners, cyclists and horses on the same paved surface. Rules on a shared corridor are set locally and can change, so Lindon City's own trail information is the place to confirm current use before you plan a ride.
One end of this trail is against a mountain and the other is nearly at lake level. Which way you point matters more than how far you go.
The junctions
It meets two other trails, and neither of them is Lindon's
The value of this trail is not really its own 6.5 miles. It is that those miles connect to two much larger systems at either end, which turns a city trail into a way of leaving the city without a car.
At the eastern end the trail climbs to the bench and crosses the Murdock Canal Trail, the paved north to south corridor that runs seventeen miles from Orem to Lehi through seven cities including this one. Lindon's own way onto that trail is the Lindon View trailhead at 300 North 780 East. From the crossing a rider can turn north or south and stay on paved, flat, ungated surface for the entire length of the north county. Everything about that trail, its route, the enclosed aqueduct beneath it, its crossings and its rules, sits on the Murdock Canal Trail page, because six other cities have exactly the same claim on it that Lindon does.
At the western end the trail crosses into Vineyard and meets the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail near the Lindon Marina. That junction is the reason the final 0.85 mile segment needed two cities to build it, and it is what turned a trail that stopped at a power station into one that reaches the water.
Above the eastern end, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail runs along the foothills. The nature park at 1200 East is one way onto it and the Dry Canyon trailhead, reached by turning east off State Street at 200 South and following the road uphill until the surface turns to gravel, is the other. Utah County's stretch of the Bonneville Shoreline is fragmented rather than continuous, which is explained properly on the region trail page, so treat it as a local network rather than a route to another county.
What all of that adds up to for anyone weighing an address here is unusual. From the eastern half of Lindon you can reach a lakeshore, seven cities of bench and a foothill singletrack network without touching a road, and the whole of it is free at every hour. The moving here page takes that up properly as a property question rather than a recreational one.
Maps and guides printed before autumn 2025 still show this trail stopping short of the lake. The final 0.85 mile segment only opened on 26 August 2025, after a thirteen year gap in which the trail ended near the Lake Side Power Station at Pioneer Lane. A great deal of published material, including mapping data, printed guides and some signage, predates that and describes a trail that finishes in the middle of the west side. If you are planning a route from anything that does not explicitly mention the 2025 completion or the Vineyard partnership, assume it is out of date and check the city's own trail information instead.
What the trail connects to
The places this trail links together
Almost everything worth seeing in Lindon sits within reach of the trail. Here is what it connects.
The western end
The Lindon Marina
Two ramps, eighteen slips, a rental fleet and a sand beach at the shoreline junction where this trail finishes.
Read the pageThe middle
The Aquatics Center
Five pools, a standing wave and a lazy river on the civic block, within easy reach of the trail's middle miles.
Read the pageThe crossing
The Murdock Canal Trail
Seventeen paved miles on a buried aqueduct through seven cities, crossed on the bench at the eastern end of this one.
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The trail, answered
Six and a half paved miles, running east to west across the entire width of Lindon. The eastern end is at 1200 East on the edge of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Nature Park against the Timpanogos foothills, and the western end is at Pioneer Road, less than a mile from Utah Lake, where it ties into the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail near the marina. It is a shared use surface carrying walkers, runners, cyclists and horses on the same asphalt.
On 26 August 2025, when the final 0.85 mile segment was ribbon cut, closing a project that had run for roughly twenty years. Phase one opened in 2008 on the bench beside the Bonneville Shoreline and the canal trail. Phase two reached Pioneer Lane near the Lake Side Power Station in 2012, and the trail then stopped there for thirteen years. The last segment was built in collaboration with Vineyard because the alignment crosses the city line before it reaches the shoreline trail.
East to west if you want a descent, west to east if you want the work. The eastern end sits against the foothills and the western end is nearly at lake level, so the whole route carries a consistent gradient and the steepest part is the last climb up to the nature park. For a one way trip with a lift, start at 1200 East and finish at the water. For an out and back, start at the bottom so the climb comes first and the return is free, which matters most on a July afternoon.
No, and they cross. The Heritage Trail is Lindon's own, running east to west for 6.5 miles from the foothills to the lakeshore. The Murdock Canal Trail runs north to south for seventeen paved miles from Orem to Lehi through seven cities, of which Lindon is one, and it belongs to the whole north county rather than to any single city. They meet on the bench at the eastern end of Lindon's trail. The Murdock has its own region page for that reason.
The two ends are the practical answers. The eastern end at 1200 East sits beside the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Nature Park and is the natural place to start a westbound ride. The western end is reached from Pioneer Road near the shoreline junction. In between, the trail is crossed by residential streets and by the State Street and Geneva Road commercial corridor, so from most Lindon addresses joining it means riding a block or two rather than driving to a trailhead at all.
It is built as a shared use trail carrying walking, jogging, cycling and equestrian use on the same paved surface, which is unusual for a modern urban trail and entirely consistent with a city that also maintains a free public horse arena. Because rules on a shared corridor are set locally and can change, Lindon City's own trail information is the authority on current use, and it is worth checking before planning a ride rather than assuming from a description.
Yes. It is paved, the alignment is low, and the western two thirds are close to flat, which makes it usable in weather that closes the softer ground above the city. The eastern climb holds shade and cold longer than the rest of the route, so winter riding is easier taken from the bottom upward. Along with the canal trail across the bench, it is the most reliable exercise surface in Lindon between November and March.
Two much larger systems, which is the real point of it. At the eastern end it crosses the Murdock Canal Trail on the bench, giving access to seventeen paved miles running north and south through seven cities, with Lindon's own way on at the Lindon View trailhead at 300 North 780 East. At the western end it crosses into Vineyard and meets the Utah Lake Shoreline Trail near the marina. Above the eastern end, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail runs along the foothills.
Because most of them predate the completion. The trail stopped near the Lake Side Power Station at Pioneer Lane from 2012 until 26 August 2025, which is thirteen years of mapping data, printed guides and signage describing a route that finishes in the middle of the west side. If a source does not mention either the 2025 completion or the partnership with Vineyard on the final segment, assume it is out of date and check Lindon City's own trail information instead.
Six and a half miles, and two much bigger systems at the ends of them
A ride here asks which direction. An address here asks what the trail is worth to you: whether the eastern half of the city, with the crossing onto seventeen miles of bench trail and the foothill network above it, is worth what it costs against the flatter middle, and what a specific parcel actually backs onto between the corridor and the shore. Tell me what you are weighing and I will put you with a Utah County partner agent who works this part of the valley, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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