The trail's north end Pleasant View
Where the built trail stops, the gap the committee is still planning through, and the county with no official trail at all
The shoreline trailhead, and the four names nobody agrees on.
The Bonneville Shoreline Trail's built miles end on Pleasant View's upper bench. The trail committee calls the place the Pleasant View Trailhead, the trail foundation calls it the North Ogden Lookout, the Forest Service calls it Pleasant View and the state mapping layer carries two more names. Three different lengths are published for the same stretch of trail. And not one of those bodies publishes a street address, a lot owner, a parking capacity, a toilet, a fee or a set of directions. Here is exactly what each of them does say, dated.
My own ground is Iron and Washington counties at the bottom of the state, a long way south of this bench, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them came from the bodies that issue it: Pleasant View City's own history, events, facilities and police pages, its adopted Ordinance 2025-25 as published by the Utah Division of Water Resources, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee's region pages and its 2023 status report, the Trails Foundation of Northern Utah, the Utah Geological Survey's geothermal record, the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District trail records, the transportation department's own route file, the Census Bureau's boundary and survey tables, the state population committee, the state board of education through the state school layer, the Weber County parcel extract, the North View Fire District and the Weber County Library System. Every figure carries the day it was read, and where four bodies name one place four ways, all four are printed. A Weber and Morgan partner agent takes the ground level work.
The short answer
The Bonneville Shoreline Trail's built miles end in Pleasant View, at a place the trail committee calls the Pleasant View Trailhead and three other bodies call three other things. It sits at the north end of the power line corridor on the city's upper bench, near a street the committee names in its own trail description, Pole Patch Drive. Getting there is the problem: no public body located in this research publishes a street address, a lot owner, a parking capacity, a toilet, a fee or a set of driving directions for it. The trail south from it is free and open, with no closure posted by any agency as of 21 August 2026. North of it the built trail simply stops, and the committee says why in its own words.
The live question
Where do you park for the shoreline trail in Pleasant View?
The honest answer is that nobody publishes it, and that absence is worth stating plainly rather than papering over with a guess. Both of the trail committee's region pages carry an Access section listing driving directions for every trailhead in the region. On the northern page, the Pleasant View Trailhead heading appears with nothing underneath it at all. On the southern page, the same heading is followed by the words From I-15 and then the section stops. Both read 21 August 2026. The Trails Foundation of Northern Utah publishes a structured record for the trail and no facilities block for the trailhead. The Forest Service lists Pleasant View in its trailhead roster for this district and gives no address. Pleasant View City publishes no trails content on its recreation page and no trails map on its maps page.
What the committee does publish is the trail description, and it contains the two landmarks a walker can actually navigate by. Going south from the trailhead, its own words are to follow the path under the powerlines, that you cannot get lost because the power lines stay overhead, and that when you reach Tower 45 you veer left off the power line road onto a single track trail. Going north, the description says to proceed under the power lines and cross Pole Patch Drive. A numbered transmission tower and a named residential street are more use on the ground than a lot name, and neither appears on any general purpose trail listing.
The two useful telephone calls, if you want the answer before you drive, are Pleasant View City on 801-782-8529 and the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District. The city is the body most likely to know who owns the ground at the end of the corridor, and the district is the body whose own roster carries the trailhead name. Until one of them publishes it, a page that prints an address for this place is inventing one.
One further complication is worth carrying gently. The state mapping index holds two trailhead points near this alignment, and their names are the opposite of helpful: the point named North Ogden BST tests inside Pleasant View city limits, and a second point named Jessie Creek tests as unincorporated Weber County. Both are third party contributions inside a state layer rather than an agency survey, which is why this page names them and stops there. The point named for the neighbouring city is the one that sits in this one.
Do not drive out here expecting a signed lot with a board and a toilet, because no public body has said there is one. Four bodies carry a record for this trailhead and not one of them publishes a street address, a lot owner, a parking capacity, a toilet, a fee or an opening time. That is a statement about what was found rather than a claim that none of those things exists on the ground, and the difference matters. Anybody planning a trip here should ring Pleasant View City on 801-782-8529 or the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District first, park where parking is legal and obvious rather than where a map pin suggests, and treat the residential streets at the top of the bench as residential streets. The whole northern end of this trail exists on the patience of the neighbourhood it runs behind, and that is the one thing every trail body in this region does agree about.
Four names
One trailhead, four bodies, four different names and three different lengths.
This is the fact that makes the north end of the trail worth a page rather than a line, and it is entirely on the public record. Print the disagreement rather than picking a side, because a reader searching for one of these names and finding only another will conclude they are two different places. Every row below is the name that body uses in its own published record, read 21 August 2026.
| The body | What it calls the trailhead | What length it prints | What it publishes about getting there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee, southern region page | Pleasant View Trailhead | 5 miles, dirt, to the trailhead on the pass road | An Access heading followed by the words From I-15 and nothing further |
| The same committee, northern region page | Pleasant View Trailhead | 4.1 miles, dirt, over the same ground | An Access heading with nothing at all underneath it |
| Trails Foundation of Northern Utah | North Ogden Lookout TH | 4.65 miles, with 732 feet of gain and a high point of 5,750 feet, rated Moderate | A structured trail record with no trailhead facilities block |
| USDA Forest Service, Ogden Ranger District trailhead list | Pleasant View | No separate figure for this segment; the district record gives two mileages without saying which belongs to which | The name appears in the roster with no address |
| Utah state mapping index, trailheads layer | North Ogden BST, and a second point named Jessie Creek | No length field | Coordinates only, from a third party contribution rather than an agency survey |
| Pleasant View City | Nothing. The city publishes no trailhead | None | No trails map, no parks map and no trails content on its recreation page |
Read at the four bodies on 21 August 2026. Two of the lengths come from the same organisation on two of its own pages, and both of those pages carry the committee's own warning that some trail details on them may not be up to date. If a single number is wanted, the foundation's 4.65 miles is the one to plan with, because it is published alongside a gain figure and a high point measured against the same alignment. The trail's own facts, its uses and its full length through the region belong to the region page on the peak and the bench.
Why does one trailhead collect four names? Because it sits at a boundary, and boundaries are where naming systems meet. The trail committee names it for the city whose ground it is on. The trail foundation names it for the landmark at the far end of the segment, which is in the next city. The Forest Service names it for the city as well, in a roster that runs south to north from Beus at 4600 South all the way up here. And the state layer carries a name somebody else typed. None of the four is wrong; they are answering different questions.
The practical consequence for a walker is small and specific: search under more than one name, and do not assume that a listing under the neighbouring city's name is describing a different place. The practical consequence for a household weighing an address on this bench is different and larger. It is that the single most distinctive public asset inside these city limits is documented by two trail organisations, a federal agency and a state mapping layer, and by nobody in local government at all.
The full length of the trail through this region, its uses, the canyon climbs above the county seat and the two ways up the mountain are all carried on the region page on the peak and the bench, which is where they belong. This page stops at the city line in both directions on purpose.
The details
Getting there
Nobody publishes directions, so this is what the record supports and no more. The trailhead is at the top end of the power line corridor on the upper bench, near Pole Patch Drive, which the trail committee names in its own northbound description. The committee's only Access text for it, on either region page, is the phrase From I-15. Ring Pleasant View City on 801-782-8529 or the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District before driving, and park where parking is legal rather than where a pin suggests.
Before you go
- Search under more than one name. Two trail organisations, a federal agency and a state layer use four different ones for this place, and a listing under the neighbouring city's name is very likely this trailhead.
- Tower 45 is the navigation point going south, in the committee's own words, and Pole Patch Drive is the crossing going north. Both are more use on the ground than any map label.
- The lengths disagree by nearly a mile across three published figures, so treat any single number as approximate and carry water for the longer one.
- The streets at the top of the bench are residential. The northern end of this trail runs behind houses, and the access exists on that basis.
The gap
North of the trailhead the built trail stops, and the body that would build it has stopped publishing about it.
The Bonneville Shoreline Trail 2023 Status Report, published on 9 April 2024 by the trail committee and the Utah Valley Trails Alliance, describes the situation in a single sentence under its Ben Lomond Segment heading: one remaining gap, through the Pole Patch neighborhood of Pleasant View, is currently in the planning process. The same report records that segment as running from the Box Elder County line to North Ogden Canyon with 5.1 miles completed out of 6 planned, and warns in its own text that the segment names it uses are tentative proposals, not official. So the missing piece is roughly nine tenths of a mile, in a named neighbourhood, on the far side of a trailhead nobody publishes an address for.
What makes that statement awkward to date is what happened next, and the committee has settled it in the clearest possible way. Its own status site, read 21 August 2026, says that 2024 saw less new BST built than in the few years previous, only a mile or two, so we are forgoing our annual report. There is no 2025 report either. The April 2024 statement is therefore the newest published status of this gap by the issuing body's own decision, and any page describing it has to say so with the date attached rather than presenting a two year old sentence as a current condition.
North of the gap the trail does not resume, and here the committee is unusually blunt. The top of its northern region page carries this sentence, printed above everything else: there are no official sections of the BST in Box Elder County. The 2023 report's county table agrees, giving Box Elder 0 miles built of 56 planned against Weber County's 23.7 completed and 28.3 total. Walk north out of Pleasant View and you leave the built trail entirely and enter a proposed alignment that runs for another twenty one miles on paper.
That is the whole reason this city is an anchor rather than a waypoint. It is not that the trail is better here. It is that the trail is here, and a few hundred yards north it is a plan.
The details
Getting there
There is nothing to drive to here, which is the point. The gap is the ground between the end of the built trail and the county line, through a named residential neighbourhood, and the only public statement about it is two years old because the body that publishes those statements decided to skip a year. Anybody who wants a live answer should write to the trail committee or ask Pleasant View City's planning office.
Before you go
- The 5.1 of 6 miles figure describes the whole Ben Lomond Segment from the county line to the canyon east of the neighbouring city, not the gap alone.
- The committee's segment names, including Ben Lomond Segment, are its own tentative proposals rather than official designations, and it says so in the report.
- Box Elder County holds no built trail at all, 0 miles of 56 planned, so the alignment north of the county line is entirely a plan.
- Willard Peak, Willard Basin and Willard Bay all sit beyond that county line and are a different county's subject. This page names the line and stops.
The anchor
Why a small city ends up naming two of a statewide trail's twelve regions.
The trail committee divides the whole Bonneville Shoreline Trail into twelve region pages, and it names two of them after Pleasant View: Brigham City to Pleasant View, given as 21.3 miles, and Pleasant View to I-84, given as 23 miles. No other Weber County city appears in a region name at all. That is not a compliment to the city and it is not marketing. It is a mapping consequence: a route gets divided at the points where its character changes, and the point where built trail becomes proposed alignment is the sharpest change there is.
The reader who arrives here is usually asking one of two questions. The first is where to start walking, and the answer is above, with the caution that nobody has signposted it. The second is how far you can go, and that answer belongs to the region page on the peak and the bench, which carries the trail's full run through this region, its uses, its trailheads and both routes up the mountain. Splitting it that way is deliberate: the anchor is this city's, and the distance is the region's.
What a household on this bench actually gets from all of it is simpler than either question. A continuous walking and riding route runs south from the top of these streets for as far as anybody is likely to want to go in a day, it costs nothing, it has no gate and no season, and the nearest end of it is a few minutes from an address up here. The catch is the one every page about this trailhead has to repeat: the ground it starts on has never been described by anybody with the authority to describe it.
The north end, in numbers that hold still
4
different names four public and semi public bodies use for one trailhead
3
different lengths published for the segment running south from it
0
bodies publishing an address, an owner, a parking count, a toilet or a fee
0 of 56
miles of this trail built in the county immediately north, on the committee's 2023 table
Living with it
A free, gateless, seasonless route that starts at the top of a residential street nobody has named.
For an address on the upper bench of this city, the trail is the closest thing to a permanent amenity a household can buy near. It has no gate, no season anybody publishes, no fee and no operator who can close it for the winter. It runs south from the top of the streets for as far as a day allows. And unlike almost every other outdoor asset in northern Utah, it does not require a drive up a canyon to reach, because it is already at the end of the road.
The costs are neighbourly rather than financial, and they are the same ones every trail organisation in this region keeps repeating in its own words. The northern end runs behind houses. There is no built lot that anybody has documented, so parking is whatever is legal and obvious on a residential street. Dogs, bikes and horses all use the corridor, which the region page sets out properly. And the access at this end exists because the arrangement has held, not because a public body has guaranteed it.
The honest thing to say to somebody weighing a bench address here is that the trail is real, free and close, and that the city itself has never written a word about it. That gap is the reason this page exists, and it is also a fair warning: if you want the current state of the ground, the people to ask are the trail committee, the Forest Service district office and the city, in that order, rather than any listing.
The other line on the ground, four miles west and a few hundred yards north, is the county boundary, and the page on the springs works through what happens where the city limit and the county line become the same line. And the vantage page carries the thousand feet of ground this trail crosses on its way through the city.
The longest built run of this trail in Utah starts at the top of a street in a city of eleven thousand, and not one public body has written down where to park.
Keep reading
The rest of Pleasant View on The Local.
On the county line
Utah Hot Springs
Springs on a county line, a resort gone since 1970, a junction still named for it.
Read the guideThe view and the name
The Ben Lomond vantage
A thousand feet of climb inside seven square miles, and the 1882 remark behind it.
Read the guideParks and the calendar
The parks and Founders Day
Four parks, six free city events, and a June parade with no published route.
Read the guideThe corridor
The US-89 corridor
A freeway exit signed for the neighbour, and a mainline with no train that stops.
Read the guideThe 2050 question
The water and the build out
The city's own ordinance projects 21,282 people and says the supply falls short.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Pleasant View
Five schools inside the limits and not one with a Pleasant View postal city.
Read the guideThe whole set
Pleasant View, in full
A city of 11,214 that climbs from about 4,270 feet to above 5,300 in seven square miles.
Open the companionQuick answers
The north end, answered.
At the north end of the power line corridor on the city's upper bench, near Pole Patch Drive, and that is as precise as the public record gets. No public body located in this research publishes a street address for it. The trail committee's own Access sections, which give driving directions for every other trailhead in the region, are blank for this one on the northern region page and stop after the words From I-15 on the southern page. The most useful navigation the committee does publish is in its trail description: follow the path under the power lines, and going north, cross Pole Patch Drive.
Nothing was found published about any of them, which is a statement about the record rather than about the ground. The trail committee's two region pages, the Trails Foundation of Northern Utah's trail record, Pleasant View City's own recreation and facility pages and the Forest Service's trailhead roster were all checked on 21 August 2026, and none of them gives a lot owner, a parking capacity, a toilet, a fee or an opening time. The two bodies worth telephoning before a trip are Pleasant View City on 801-782-8529 and the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District.
Because it sits at a boundary, and boundaries are where naming systems meet. The Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee calls it the Pleasant View Trailhead, after the city whose ground it is on. The Trails Foundation of Northern Utah calls it the North Ogden Lookout TH, after the landmark at the far end of the segment in the next city. The Forest Service's trailhead list for this district calls it Pleasant View. And the state mapping index carries two points near the alignment named North Ogden BST and Jessie Creek. None of the four is wrong; they answer different questions, so search under more than one.
Three published figures, and two of them come from the same organisation on two of its own pages. The trail committee's southern region page says 5 miles, dirt. Its northern region page says 4.1 miles, dirt, over the same ground. The Trails Foundation of Northern Utah's structured record gives 4.65 miles with 732 feet of gain and a high point of 5,750 feet, rated Moderate. If a single figure is wanted, the foundation's is the one to plan with, because it is published alongside a gain and a high point measured against the same alignment. Both committee pages carry their own warning that some details on them may not be up to date.
Almost, with one gap and it is named. The trail committee's 2023 status report, published on 9 April 2024, states that one remaining gap, through the Pole Patch neighborhood of Pleasant View, is currently in the planning process. The same report records the segment running from the Box Elder County line to the canyon east of the neighbouring city as 5.1 miles completed out of 6 planned. That April 2024 sentence is still the newest published status, because the committee decided not to publish a 2024 report and has published none since, so it should always be read with its date attached.
It says so itself, on its own status site, read 21 August 2026: 2024 saw less new BST built than in the few years previous, only a mile or two, so we are forgoing our annual report. That single sentence resolves a question that would otherwise look like a research failure. The April 2024 report covering 2023 is the current published status of this trail by the issuing body's own decision, there is no 2025 report either, and any page describing the gap north of Pleasant View has to date its statement to April 2024 rather than presenting it as a live condition.
It stops being trail and becomes a plan. The trail committee prints the reason at the top of its northern region page, in its own words: there are no official sections of the BST in Box Elder County. Its 2023 status report's county table agrees, giving Box Elder 0 miles built out of 56 planned, against Weber County's 23.7 completed of 28.3 total. So the whole 21.3 mile region the committee calls Brigham City to Pleasant View is a proposed alignment rather than built trail, and Pleasant View is where the built trail starts.
No, and that is the strangest fact on this page. The city's Parks and Recreation page carries no trails content at all, and its maps page lists exactly four documents: a future land use map with changes as of December 2019, a road map at eleven by seventeen, a road map at eight by eleven, and a zoning map as of 12 August 2025. There is no trails map and no parks map. So the most distinctive public asset inside these city limits is documented by two trail organisations, a federal agency and a state mapping layer, and by nobody in local government.
A numbered transmission tower on the power line corridor, and the single most useful navigation point the trail committee publishes for this stretch. Its southern region page describes the route from the Pleasant View Trailhead in these words: follow the path under the powerlines, you cannot get lost, just keep the power lines over your head, and when you get to Tower 45, veer left off the power line road onto a single-track trail, with half a mile on that trail reaching the trailhead at the pass. A tower number and a street name are what this trail navigates by at its north end, because there are no other labels.
The north end of the trail is a few minutes from a street up here, and nobody has signposted it.
The upper bench of this city has something almost no small town in Utah has: a free, gateless, seasonless walking and riding route that starts at the end of the street and runs south for as far as a day allows. It also has the awkward corollary, which is that no public body has written down where the trail starts, who owns the ground it starts on, or where a car is supposed to sit. If a trail at the end of the road is part of what you are buying here, it is worth walking the top three or four streets on a Saturday morning before deciding what that access is worth to you. Tell me which part of the bench you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who can walk it with you, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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