Several thousand years ago, a vast freshwater lake lapped against the Wasatch foothills about where a Latter-day Saint temple now juts above Bountiful’s residential neighborhoods.
Lake Bonneville is long gone, of course, a casualty of ancient climate change, but its shoreline remains visible along the rapidly urbanizing Wasatch Front, where Utah counties have been developing an extensive trail system following the contours of the ancient lakeshore rimming these oak-strewn foothills.
Davis County now hopes to complete its share of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail under a plan released by the U.S. Forest Service. The proposal calls for stitching together several existing segments into an unbroken 50-mile stretch from City Creek Canyon north to the Weber River.