City Pleasant View, Weber County
A bench city at the top of Weber County, under Ben Lomond
Pleasant View, the city at the north end of the valley
Pleasant View is a city of about 11,400 people on roughly seven square miles at the north end of the Weber Valley, sitting at the base of Ben Lomond and climbing about a thousand feet from the valley floor to the bench. It is best known as the place the maps run out: the longest continuous stretch of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Utah starts here, the city limit and the Box Elder County line run together along US-89, and the built valley simply ends. Eight pages on the city itself, plus the shared Ben Lomond bench, the one regional subject a Pleasant View address really uses.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Pleasant View is a city of about 11,400 people at the north end of Weber County, sitting at the base of Ben Lomond and climbing roughly a thousand feet from the valley floor to the bench. It is best known as the place the maps run out: the longest unbroken stretch of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Utah, about 22 miles of it, starts here, and the trail committee's own pages say there are no official sections north of here in Box Elder County. Inside seven square miles it holds Weber High School, the largest high school in the county, and Utah Hot Springs, a name that still marks a state highway junction even though the springs sit on the county line and you cannot visit them. The city runs its own police force and its own water, and its adopted water plan projects, on current growth, that demand catches up with supply around 2050. This hub is the map to eight deeper pages on the city, and it hands the mountain itself to the shared Ben Lomond bench page.
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The city itself
A pioneer town on the bench, named for the view in 1882
Pleasant View sits at the top of Weber County, with North Ogden immediately east, Harrisville and Farr West below it, and the Box Elder County line along the top. The Census Bureau's 2024 boundary file gives it 6.98 square miles of land and, for water, none at all. That second figure settles a claim the city's own marketing sometimes invites: Pleasant View does not touch the Great Salt Lake, and Farr West sits between its western edge and the freeway. What opens out to the west is the floor of the valley, not the lake.
The name comes straight off the city's own history page, which is short and specific. The Simeon Cragun family first settled here in 1851. The place went by the West End, the West District, and Stringtown in turn, three earlier names, not the five that sometimes circulate. It took its present name in 1882, when Wilford Cragun looked out over the settlement and remarked that it had a pleasant view. It became a city on 27 August 1945, with Odell Kirk as its first town president.
For its size the city does a lot for itself: its own police department with thirteen officers, its own culinary water from four wells and two springs with wholesale water bought in as needed, four parks, and a recreation program with seven sports. Five schools sit inside the limits, including Weber High, the largest high school in the county, though every one of them carries an Ogden mailing address rather than a Pleasant View one. The moving guide walks through each of those with the document behind it. The mountain that fills the eastern sky, Ben Lomond at 9,712 feet on the Forest Service's records, belongs to the whole Ogden bench, so the shared Ben Lomond and the Ogden bench page carries the peak, the canyon, and the trail's full length. This hub keeps the part that is Pleasant View's, the north end. For prices, neighborhoods, and school boundaries, the Pleasant View city guide carries the practical side of a move.
Seven square miles with no river and no downtown of its own, under a mountain it can see from every street, at the end of a trail that simply stops. That shape is the whole story of Pleasant View.
The wider bench
The mountain is Pleasant View's; the canyon, the lakes and the ski hills are reached through Ogden
A few big draws belong to the whole area rather than to any single town. A Pleasant View address has a real stake in exactly one of them, the mountain out the east window, so this hub points to that page first and is straight about where the rest actually sits, a drive away on the far side of Ogden.
The mountain itself
Ben Lomond and the Ogden bench
The 9,712 foot peak over Pleasant View, the foothill trails along the bench, and the full length of the shoreline trail whose north end starts in the city, written once for the whole area.
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The region hub
The Weber and Morgan hub
Every town from Ogden up to Pleasant View, plus the canyon, the two reservoirs, the ski hills and the river trails that the north bench reaches by driving south through Ogden first.
Open the hubAlmost everything else in the area sits on the far side of Ogden. Ogden Canyon and the Pineview and Causey reservoirs open off the Ogden River, a different drainage from anything you can see here. Snowbasin and Powder Mountain are up beyond that canyon. Historic 25th Street is downtown Ogden, about six miles south. And the paved river parkways run along the Ogden and Weber rivers, neither of which reaches Pleasant View, which is the same reason the census records no water inside the city. The one regional subject a Pleasant View address genuinely uses is the peak that fills the eastern sky.
The Pleasant View companion
Eight pages on the city itself, from the trailhead to the water plan
Everything The Local has written about Pleasant View: the shoreline trailhead and the springs on the county line, the climb behind the name, the four parks and the six free events, the corridor a household here drives every day, the water plan that looks ahead to 2050, and what a move to this bench actually asks of you. Each is its own page, and this is the map to all eight.
Start here
The 5 best things to do
The honest short list for a small city, five stops with a fact block and a season on each, from the trailhead to the parks.
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The trail's north end
The Bonneville Shoreline trailhead
Four bodies name this trailhead four different ways and none gives directions to it. What each one says, and how the trail runs from here.
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On the county line
Utah Hot Springs
Hot water on the county line, a resort gone since about 1970, and no public way in. The history and the geology, from a distance.
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The view and the name
Ben Lomond and the view that named the city
A 9,712 foot peak on one side and the valley floor on the other, and the 1882 remark the city took its name from.
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Parks and the calendar
The parks and the Founders Day parade
Four city parks, boweries you reserve by phone from May to September, and six free events a year, the Founders Day parade among them.
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The daily drive
The US-89 corridor
The freeway exit shared with Farr West, the mainline with no train that stops, and the trade a home near the corridor makes. Read it before an offer.
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The 2050 question
The water and the room to grow
The city's 2025 plan projects 21,282 residents by 2050 and says the supply falls short. What the council wrote, and what it plans to do.
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Before you move
Moving to Pleasant View
Which services the city runs and which it buys in, how the bench changes with elevation, and the checklist before you commit to an address here.
ReadWeighing a move, not a visit?
When you want current prices, what is on the market, the parts of town buyers set side by side, and where the school lines fall, the Pleasant View city guide has the rest.
Quick answers
Pleasant View, answered
For the mountain it sits under and for being the point where several maps run out. The Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee names two of its twelve trail regions after this city, because the built trail's northern end is here and the Committee states on its own northern region page that there are no official sections of the trail in Box Elder County. The city's own About page says it is best known for its mountain views, and the mountain in question is Ben Lomond, 9,712 feet on the Forest Service's records. Beyond that, Pleasant View holds Weber High School, the county's largest, and the hot springs that gave a state highway junction its name.
About 11,400, on the U.S. Census estimate for 2025. Three other numbers circulate and each measures something different: the 2020 decennial census counted 11,083, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 gives a pooled five year figure of 11,217 with a margin of plus or minus 41, and Pleasant View City's own About page says approximately 10,734. The city's own figure is the lowest of the four. The Census estimate grew by only about 20 people between 2024 and 2025.
There is no single elevation, because the city climbs steeply from the valley floor to the bench. The ground on the west side of the city sits about 4,267 feet, the ground near the city offices about 4,363, the high school site about 4,522, the upper bench inside the city limits about 5,089, and the trail alignment where it crosses the limits about 5,317. That is roughly a thousand feet of spread inside seven square miles, which is the honest way to describe a bench city.
No, and there is no honest distance to give either, because the shoreline itself moves. The Census Bureau's 2024 boundary file gives Pleasant View 6.98 square miles of land and, for water, zero. There is no mapped watercourse, pond or lake anywhere inside the city limits. Farr West sits on the ground between the western edge of the city and the freeway, so what opens out to the west is the floor of the valley, not the lake.
Nobody publishes a clean answer, which is worth knowing before you go. The trail committee names the place the Pleasant View Trailhead, the Trails Foundation of Northern Utah calls it the North Ogden Lookout, the Forest Service's trailhead list calls it Pleasant View, and the state mapping layer carries two more names for points near the alignment. Not one of those bodies publishes a street address, a lot owner, a parking capacity, a restroom, a fee or a set of driving directions. So treat any driving directions you find as unconfirmed until you have seen the spot yourself.
No, and there is nothing at the site to look at from a road either. The state's geological record places the water in an industrial and rail corridor at the top of the city, straddling the boundary between two counties, and records that the bathing resort built there around the turn of the last century came down about 1970, leaving two collection cisterns standing on private ground. Nothing published by anybody names a trail, a viewpoint, an interpretive sign, an opening hour or a way in. What has outlived the resort by more than five decades is the name, which a state agency still applies to a highway junction a few miles further north.
Five, all in the Weber School District, and not one of them carries a Pleasant View postal city on the state's own school record. Weber High School for grades ten to twelve at 430 W Weber High Drive, the largest high school in the county. Orchard Springs for prekindergarten to grade six at 3300 N 975 W, which opened in 2019. Lomond View School for prekindergarten to grade six at 3644 N 900 W. And the district's two online programs at 330 N 975 W. This site does not rate schools; check a third party such as GreatSchools or Niche and confirm the attendance boundary with the district.
That is not the claim, and the wording repays getting right. In a water element adopted into its general plan on 18 November 2025, the council sets its own build out figure at 21,282 residents in the year 2050, calculates what a population that size would need once the region's conservation target is applied, and records that the total comes to more than the supply it expects to have. It then names its intended answer in the very next sentence, which is to buy additional wholesale water from the regional district it already buys from, rather than drilling or developing anything new locally. That is a council doing its arithmetic in public, and the Pleasant View water page carries that passage in full.
There is a railway and there is no train that stops. A Union Pacific mainline runs through the corridor on the west side of the city with the commuter rail alignment beside it, and both are recorded in the state railroad layer, but commuter service north of Ogden was suspended on 10 August 2018, and the transit authority's current station list gives Weber County exactly two stations, Ogden Central and Roy, with Ogden as the northern end of the line. Bus service is thin and shifts: an older route description still names a station that closed in 2018, so check UTA for what actually runs today before you count on it.
A small city worth getting right
A Pleasant View address asks a specific set of questions: how high on the bench you want to be, in a city that climbs about a thousand feet end to end; whether the freeway exit and the mainline with no train suit your day; and how you feel about the library, the senior center and the nearest commuter rail platform all sitting one city south. Tell me which addresses you are weighing, and I will connect you with a trusted Weber County partner agent who knows this bench, then stay with you through the research and the financing.
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