The river Marriott-Slaterville
The one Weber River access this city publishes
The Weber River, and the trail no one has named
Marriott-Slaterville publishes exactly one way onto the Weber River: River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street, with parking, a bike trail and a walking track, and nothing else. The paved corridor it joins runs east toward the ponds and the river meeting, west into farmland, and four organizations call it four different names. The state's trailhead list has never heard of this lot, the whole city sits inside about thirty feet of relief, and here is what is actually there, which way to go, and what to bring.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Marriott-Slaterville publishes one way onto the Weber River, and it is River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street: trailhead parking, a bike trail and a walking track in the city's own words, and nothing else. From that lot a paved multiuse path runs both directions. The state maps it through the city as the Weber River Parkway, and the eastern end of town catches part of the pond loop at 21st Street before the ground turns into Ogden's. The city has never named the trail on any page it publishes, four different names circulate for it, and no restroom, tap or trash can is listed anywhere at the trailhead. Fill bottles and plan the stop before you drive.
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What it's called
Why searching for this trail so often comes up short
Four bodies print four names, and the one that owns the lot prints none at all. The city lists River Cove Trail Head with a bike trail and a walking track and never says what they connect to. The state calls the path through this city the Weber River Parkway, and spells one stretch of it as a variant of Centennial. The regional trails foundation uses Weber River Pathway in some places and Weber River Parkway in others. Ogden's visitor material calls the whole thing the Weber River Parkway and puts it at twelve miles.
None of those is wrong. They are four organizations describing overlapping pieces of one continuous paved corridor, and it genuinely does change hands several times between here and the canyon mouth. But the effect on someone planning a Saturday is real: search one name and you find a map that stops short of this city, search another and you land on a page about a different reach, and search the city's own name for the lot and you get one line of amenities.
The search that works is Weber River Parkway for the trail and River Cove Trail Head for the way in, used together. The sentence worth carrying is that the path at this lot is the same paved corridor people ride from Ogden; it simply has a quiet western end nobody has gotten around to naming.
The corridor as a whole, its length, its owners and its downstream trailheads, lives on the region page for both river parkways, written once for all fourteen cities rather than fourteen times over. This page stays on Marriott-Slaterville ground.
The trailhead
One address, one approach, and a short list of what's there
River Cove Trail Head is at 903 West 17th Street. That is the address on the city's facilities page, and 17th Street is 1700 South on the Ogden grid, which is the first thing to sort out before you drive, because a navigation app will hand the address back to you as Ogden. The point is inside Marriott-Slaterville all the same.
The city lists three things there: a bike trail, trailhead parking and a walking track. Read that literally. There is no restroom, no drinking water, no trash can, no shade structure, no picnic table and no playground, and none of those absences is an oversight; the same page lists all of them where they exist at the other city parks. What you get is a place to park and a paved surface to set off on.
So plan the visit the way you would plan a small trailhead anywhere: bottles filled before you leave, everything you bring goes home with you, and the restroom stop happens at the other end of the trip. City Hall Park, three and a half miles away at 1570 West 400 North, is the nearest city restroom that is not held back for a booking. On a hot afternoon that is a long way to cover on a bike, so it is worth building into the plan rather than discovering.
The details
There is no restroom and no drinking water at River Cove Trail Head, and the nearest one is three and a half miles away. The city's entire published amenity list for this spot is a bike trail, trailhead parking and a walking track. No tap, no toilet, no trash can and no shade are listed, and none should be assumed. The nearest city restrooms you can count on are at City Hall Park, 1570 West 400 North, because the restrooms at Marriott Park are unlocked only for a booking. Fill bottles before you leave, carry everything out, and confirm the current setup with the city if you are planning a long summer ride from here.
The four names
One paved corridor, and four groups that label it differently
This is the single most useful thing to know before you search for anything about the river here. Each row is a name in real use, with no attempt to pick a winner, because no single body settles it.
| The name you might see | Who uses it | Where you run into it |
|---|---|---|
| No name at all | Marriott-Slaterville City | The city's facilities pages, which name the lot and its surface and never name the trail |
| Weber River Parkway | The state, as the name of the whole system | State and county mapping, and the path inside this city |
| A variant spelling of Centennial | The state, on one stretch of it | The same mapping, just east of the trailhead |
| Weber River Pathway | The regional trails foundation | Trail foundation material about the corridor as a whole |
| Weber River Parkway, twelve miles | Ogden's visitor material | Tourism pages describing the corridor from the Ogden end |
The practical answer: search Weber River Parkway for the trail and River Cove Trail Head for the way in, and treat a map that stops short of this city as incomplete rather than authoritative.
There is a second naming problem, and it is the one that can cost a visitor a parking spot. The county's 2010 cooperative pathways inventory lists a trailhead at this exact location under a different name, Marriott-Slaterville Confluence Park at 1700 South, with thirty spaces. The address matches: 903 West 17th Street is 1700 South. So the same ground carries a current city name and a 2010 county name, and only the county one puts a number on the parking.
That number is worth handling carefully. Thirty spaces is what a planning document said in 2010, not a count of what is painted today, and the city publishes no stall count at all. So the honest planning assumption is a small lot that can fill on a good Saturday morning, with no overflow to fall back on. Arrive early if the weather is perfect.
The city adopted the county's cooperative pathways plan into city law in 2010, as Ordinance 2010-05, and still posts the ordinance. Beyond that it posts no trail rules of its own, so the ordinary courtesies of a shared paved path apply and nothing here restricts the surface to one use.
Which way to go
East for the mile that repays a first visit, west for farmland and a thinning surface
From the lot the paved path runs both ways, and the two directions are not equal. Go east and the corridor firms up. The path runs the whole of this end of the city, and at the far eastern edge part of the pond loop at 21st Street crosses onto Marriott-Slaterville ground before the ground becomes Ogden's. That is the direction with the water, the cottonwoods and the sense of being on a real trail rather than a farm lane.
Go west and the story changes. The ground opens into working farmland, the corridor thins, and no one publishes a promise about the surface. It is a good walk on a spring evening and a poor plan for a ride, because there is nothing at the far end of it and no loop to come back on. If you have one hour and one direction, take the eastern one.
The other thing the ground gives you here is how flat it is, and that is measurable rather than impressionistic. The elevation at the trailhead street point is 4,274 feet, the city offices three and a half miles away sit at 4,247, and Marriott Park is 4,264. The whole built area of this city lives inside about thirty feet of relief. For a rider that means no climb worth the name in any direction, which is exactly why a paved path here works for an easy ride or the first outdoor ride of the year.
The details
The ground it runs through
River bottom, cottonwoods and farm lanes, on a city that named itself after keeping them
The reason this reach feels different from the busy end of the same corridor is that it runs through a working landscape rather than a park. This is the bottomland the two old settlements farmed from the 1850s, and the city that came out of them in 1999 has put the words Open Space City at the top of every page it publishes. Whatever else that phrase does, it describes what you can see from the path.
It also explains the absences. There is no restroom block, no lighting, no interpretive sign and no ranger, because nothing here was built as a destination; a lot and a paved surface were added to ground that was already doing something else. If you want a groomed river park with facilities, the corridor has those downstream and they are someone else's. What this end has is quiet, and it has it on a Saturday in June.
One honest caution for anyone weighing an address near the water rather than a morning on it. The city publishes a flood plain notice on its public works pages and runs its own storm water program, and the federal flood maps for Weber County have been under revision. That is a homework item for a purchase rather than a warning for a walk, and it belongs to a conversation with the city and a map rather than to a trail page.
This page covers this city's ground only, and the neighbors own the rest. West Haven publishes its own river points further downstream, including frontage at its cemetery and a trail end on its western side, and those are West Haven's to describe rather than this city's. Riverdale's reach, its own trailheads and the city side access there are on Riverdale's river page. The corridor as a whole, with its length, its four owners and the mileage argument, is the region page for both parkways. And the meeting point, where the Ogden River joins the Weber, is Ogden's ground and Ogden's to write.
If you live here
A lot five minutes from most driveways, on a corridor that runs to the canyon
For a household here the river stops being a trip and becomes infrastructure. A paved, flat, multiuse path five minutes from most addresses in the city is the kind of thing people move to a suburb for and rarely get, and this one has the added virtue of being genuinely uncrowded. Dog before work, bike after dinner, first ride of the year in March when the mountain trails are still under snow.
The connection matters more than the trailhead does. The same corridor carries on east and north through Ogden toward the canyon mouth, which means a household here can start at its own lot and ride a long way without loading a bike onto a car. That is a resident's fact rather than a visitor's, and it is the strongest argument for the west end of this city that no one makes.
What the river asks in return is homework at purchase. Ground running down toward the water is where the flood map, the elevation certificate and the city's own flood plain notice all matter, and it is parcel specific in a way no page can settle. The page on moving here lists who to ask, and the city guide carries the purchase side.
One last thing, and it is the reason this page exists at all. Almost every description of the Weber River corridor starts at Ogden and works upstream toward the canyon, because that is where the trailheads with restrooms are. This city holds the other end: flatter, quieter, unnamed, with one lot at the end of a farm lane. It is not the best mile of the corridor. It is the one you can have to yourself.
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Marriott-Slaterville, in full
Seven square miles, four park sites, one river access and five schools, on a city of about 2,290.
Open the companionQuick answers
The river, answered
At 903 West 17th Street in Marriott-Slaterville, which is 1700 South on the Ogden street grid, at about 900 West. It is roughly 3.6 miles and seven minutes from the city offices at 1570 West 400 North. A navigation app will normalize the address to Ogden because the ZIP code and the grid are both Ogden's, but the point falls inside the Marriott-Slaterville city boundary on the state's own layer. There is one address and one approach, and the parking lot is at the end of it.
Three things, in the city's own words: a bike trail, trailhead parking and a walking track. That is the entire published amenity list, and it should be taken literally. There is no restroom, no drinking water, no bin, no picnic table and no shade structure. The same city pages list all of those things where they exist at other city sites, so the absence is a description rather than an omission. Fill bottles before you leave and carry everything out.
It depends who you ask, and the city itself never says. The state calls the path through this city the Weber River Parkway and spells one stretch of it as a variant of Centennial. The regional trails foundation uses Weber River Pathway in some material and Weber River Parkway in other material. Ogden's visitor material calls the corridor the Weber River Parkway and gives it twelve miles. Search Weber River Parkway for the trail and River Cove Trail Head for the way onto it.
The city publishes no stall count. The Weber County cooperative pathways inventory of 2010 listed a trailhead at this same location under a different name, Marriott-Slaterville Confluence Park at 1700 South, with thirty spaces, and 903 West 17th Street is 1700 South, so the two almost certainly describe one place. Thirty is a 2010 planning figure rather than a count of what is painted today. Treat it as a small parking lot with no overflow, and arrive early on a perfect Saturday.
East. The paved path runs the whole eastern end of this city, and part of the pond loop at 21st Street crosses onto Marriott-Slaterville ground before the ground becomes Ogden's, so that is the direction with the water, the cottonwoods and a real sense of a corridor. West the ground opens into working farmland and the surface thins, with nothing at the far end and no loop back. On foot the eastward leg is about forty minutes out and back.
Yes, and measurably so. The United States Geological Survey's one meter elevation service reads 4,274 feet at the trailhead street point, 4,247 feet at the city offices three and a half miles away, and 4,264 feet at Marriott Park. The entire built area of this city sits inside about thirty feet of relief. There is no climb worth the name in any direction from the parking lot, which makes this a good surface for a family ride or the first outdoor ride of the year.
The city's trail document of record is Ordinance 2010-05, Cooperative Pathways, which adopted the county cooperative pathways plan into city law in 2010, and the city still publishes the ordinance itself. The city publishes the ordinance number, its title and its year, and nothing more about it. Beyond that the city posts no trail conduct rules of its own on any page, so the ordinary courtesies of a shared paved path apply and no published restriction limits the surface to one use.
Because it is not on the state's list of trailheads. Between this city and the canyon mouth that list names three, and every one of them is in Riverdale or Ogden. The city's own facilities page is the only place this trailhead is published. That is worth knowing for two reasons: a state trail map is not evidence the parking lot does not exist, and a corridor map that stops short of this city is incomplete rather than authoritative.
No public source settles which bank the trail follows. The city names the parking lot, its surface and its parking and says nothing about the river's banks, and the state's mapping of the path does not settle it either. That matters practically, because it means you should not plan a crossing you have not seen with your own eyes. Walk what is in front of you, and treat any description of the far bank you find elsewhere as unverified.
One parking lot, and the quietest mile on the whole corridor
The river is the best argument for the west end of this city, and it is also where the homework lives. Ground that runs down toward the water is ground where the federal flood map, the elevation certificate and the city's own flood plain notice all matter, and none of it is answerable from a listing photograph. The rest of the questions here are the ordinary ones for a farm city: what the parcel is zoned for, what the neighboring parcel is running, which special districts bill the address, and how much of 12th Street you want at the end of the driveway. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works this side of the valley, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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