City Creek

The City Creek trail is most often accessed from a step-over on the west side of the Red Hills Parkway across the street from the Pioneer Hills trailhead.  Because of ongoing construction to widen the Parkway to four lanes, this access is currently blocked.  At the end of the construction in 2012, it is anticipated that a new route beginning at the Pioneer Hills trailhead will be finished leading to an underpass to the north of the trailhead and a new trail segment to connect with the main trail.  This description and the associated photos, will then be updated to reflect what is actually developed on the ground.  In the interim, access to the trail can be gained starting at the Brooks Nature Park trailhead at the north end of Main Street in St. George. Visitors can take the nature trail to the Owen’s Loop trail and proceed west to the intersection with a connector that runs due north and leads to the actual City Creek trail.  The connector is about ½ mile long with uphill segments and some rocky substrate of easy to moderate difficulty.  In all, the trail is about 2.7 miles long and of easy to moderate difficulty due to numerous ups and downs for a total elevation change of 700 feet.  After passing above the Red Hills Golf Course, the trail dead-ends on the north when it reaches the Red Hills Parkway near the junction with Highway 18.

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