The river trail and the camping beside it

Two sources give two answers. The Trails Foundation of Northern Utah, which keeps the trail records for northern Utah, gives 5.50 miles and grades the trail easy. A Weber County pathways plan from 2010, endorsed but never formally adopted, put the same trail at 2.2 miles of asphalt. The trail group's figure is the current one and the 2010 figure is where most of the shorter mileages in circulation come from, so plan around 5.50 and walk it out and back rather than committing to a one way distance.

Its west end is 1500 South 2350 West, at the corner of the West Haven City Cemetery, which is the landmark every description uses because it is the one address on this reach that is easy to find on the Ogden grid. From there the corridor runs east toward the freeway and on toward the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers. There is no formal trailhead lot at that end, so park considerately on the street near the cemetery and never overnight, which is a citywide park rule.

Yes, and it is the only place on the whole corridor where a city offers it. West Haven rents a handful of overnight camping spots on the trail just north of the city cemetery, at Prevedel Park Campground, 1300 South 2300 West. Booking runs through West Haven Parks and Recreation at 2825 West 3300 South on 801-731-8882, Monday to Thursday from nine to five, with no online form. Ask the fee, the night limit, the number of sites and where to leave the vehicle when you call, since the short listing leaves all four out.

The only surface figure on record is the 2010 county plan's 2.2 miles of asphalt, a sixteen year old number in a plan that was never adopted, so turn up expecting whatever the last few winters have left rather than a guaranteed surface. On accessibility the trail group is explicit: it marks the Ogden River Parkway upstream as adaptive friendly and marks the West Haven Trail as not adaptive accessible. Horses are not permitted here. Hiking, biking, dogs, electric bikes and winter use all are.

Treat it as neither. The trail group lists winter use among the permitted activities, which means you may use it, not that anyone plows it, and it is unlit and goes unplowed in winter for this reach. Treat the west end as unlit and unplowed from November on, carry a light after dark, and expect the surface to be whatever the last storm left.

There is no formal trailhead lot at the west end, and the honest move is to park considerately on the street near the cemetery at 1550 South 2350 West. The city's one parking rule for its parks is that overnight parking is not allowed. The only stall counts anywhere for this corridor come from the 2010 county plan, and the one it labels at 1200 South actually sits on Marriott-Slaterville ground rather than West Haven's, so do not count on it. Ask Parks and Recreation before leaving a vehicle overnight for camping.

If you are eighteen or older, yes, since 1 July 2026. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources now requires either a free digital access permit or a Utah hunting, fishing or combination license to be on a wildlife management area, and Ogden Bay is on the list covered from that date. The permit costs nothing but is not instant: you watch the division's short educational material, show proof of completion, and the permit then lasts 365 days. Motor vehicles, including class two and class three electric bikes, stay on marked roads.

No, it is reached through Hooper. West Haven's western boundary sits at about 5100 West, and the wildlife area's north access is at 4786 South 7500 West, in Hooper, with roughly two and a half miles of Hooper ground in between. What West Haven has is the drive out and the wetland horizon at the end of the section roads. The area's acreage, its seasons, its roads and its parking sit on Hooper's own pages, and the two acreage figures in circulation differ by fourteen thousand acres, neither of them from the division, so the two published figures disagree.

Plenty, and most of it belongs to other pages on purpose. The whole through route, the confluence of the two rivers, the county's fort and pond beside it, the kayak park and the mileage argument across the entire corridor sit on the region's river parkways page. Riverdale keeps its own reach, its trailheads and its bike park. Two access points east of West Haven, River Cove Trail Head and the one a 2010 plan put at 1200 South, are on Marriott-Slaterville ground and belong to that city. West Haven's share of this river is the west end, and the west end is what is here.