Denver & Rio Grande Western Rail Trail
2009 through 2011 - 54 photos
2009 through 2011 - 54 photos
(Last update October 2011)
Work is almost complete along the old Denver Rio Grande Rail Line, to pave it from the north Side of Roy City to Farmington and connect to the Legacy Trail. The name of this trail is the Denver Rio Grande Western Rail Trail. This trail is about 18 miles long. It has all been paved now up to the Farmington Creek Trail, which you can use to cross over to Tippetts Lane, then east by a short sidewalk along the south side of the State Street overpass to the Legacy Trail. There is still about 4 miles unpaved along the rail line that will someday be paved all the way to Glover's Lane and Legacy, but we can now ride through on to Legacy using the Farmington Creek trail connection.
Layton and Roy have both finally paved their 3 mile sections, and they are open to use. The city of Roy was the last to finish their section, and now all is paved from the north side of Roy to Farmington.
Weber Pathways is looking into a way to join this trail to the Weber Trail.
The Denver Rio Grande Western Rail Trail is pretty much very straight, and fairly level. It does slope a small amount to the south, and at the Roy end it slopes to the north. When riding this trail, you will find a lot of variation in scenery, and a bit of fun trying to wend your way through the stile gates at each street crossing, and there are a lot of street crossings.
There is one section that has been closed by the railroad in Clearfield. They have a trackline that crosses the trail and have fenced it off. At this time there are signs at each end, 200S and 700S, showing the detour by streets to get around the closure.
This same rail line is used to the south of Farmington, but known by other trail names. There is a short section of the Legacy Trail that runs along it, and another section going south called the Prospector Trail ending in West Bountiful. Altogether these trails along the old rail line are about 25 miles total.
Layton and Roy have both finally paved their 3 mile sections, and they are open to use. The city of Roy was the last to finish their section, and now all is paved from the north side of Roy to Farmington.
Weber Pathways is looking into a way to join this trail to the Weber Trail.
The Denver Rio Grande Western Rail Trail is pretty much very straight, and fairly level. It does slope a small amount to the south, and at the Roy end it slopes to the north. When riding this trail, you will find a lot of variation in scenery, and a bit of fun trying to wend your way through the stile gates at each street crossing, and there are a lot of street crossings.
There is one section that has been closed by the railroad in Clearfield. They have a trackline that crosses the trail and have fenced it off. At this time there are signs at each end, 200S and 700S, showing the detour by streets to get around the closure.
This same rail line is used to the south of Farmington, but known by other trail names. There is a short section of the Legacy Trail that runs along it, and another section going south called the Prospector Trail ending in West Bountiful. Altogether these trails along the old rail line are about 25 miles total.
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For most of these photos I used a small Canon Powershot, SX210, 14 Megapixel Camera which has Image Stabilazation and a lens going from wide angle to 14x optical zoom.
For some of the earlier photos I used a Canon Powershot SD700 IS Digital Elph, 6 megapixel, with 4x optical and 4x digital zoom.
These photos are set to lower resolution and compressed 10:1 for faster loading. You are welcome to look at or download any of the photos. If you use them on any other webpage, please give credit and refer back to me.
For some of the earlier photos I used a Canon Powershot SD700 IS Digital Elph, 6 megapixel, with 4x optical and 4x digital zoom.
These photos are set to lower resolution and compressed 10:1 for faster loading. You are welcome to look at or download any of the photos. If you use them on any other webpage, please give credit and refer back to me.