Ebenezer Brown Trail

 The Ebenezer Brown Trail is a short trail  that follows a short section of Corner Canyon Creek through Draper. The trail features the creek, and nice mountains views. Aside from the canyon, this is the only place I have found to enjoy this creek. The trail picks up on the east side of Smith Fields Park.

Quick Details:

Length: About 2 miles out and back.
Trail Type: Out and back
Difficulty: DR2. It is pretty flat and paved.
Elevation Gain: About 60 feet.
Restroom: There are some at Smith Fields Park. The Draper Trails page says they are year round restrooms, but they were not open today, so I am guessing that is a mistake, and they are not open in winter.
Dogs? Yes, leashed. Please clean up after your furry friends.
Other Info:

To Get Here:

Take i15 to Bangerter, head east. Go about 3/10th of a mile and take the very first left on 150 East. Go another 3/10ths of a mile and turn right on 134th south. Smith Fields Park will be immediately on the left.

The trail is on the east end of the park.

The Trail:

Smith Fields Park.

Corner Canyon Creek.

Bridge over it.

Again.

Downstream.

Upstream.

Then you pass by this neat looking skate park.

3rd West. They expect you to detour about 230 feet or so either way to use a crosswalk. In fact, all of the street crossing on this trail are dumb like that and none of them are actually on the trail. Luckily the roads are not very busy.

The crosswalk that is a ways off.

The creek and Mount Jordan.

This flowering tree was quite fragrant.

Weird double fencing. It looks like either the city, or the developer put the shorter fence in, and all the homeowners decided it wasn’t good enough. But, honestly, I have no idea what the story is.

Mountain views.

The creek. I am guessing that it had to have been channelized right? No creek is naturally this straight. 

Ducky!

Neighborhood connector.

Continuing along.

Mount Jordan.

The creek before it heads under Lone Rock Drive.

Crossing at Lone Rock Drive. It says to use the cross walk, left.

Which is again, 200 feet away from the trail. So yea, I’m just going to cross. If the road was busier I would consider it.

Also, if you want, you can go north here and take the Belleview Trail to Belleview park (1.2 miles one way). Then you can take Carlquist Trail west along Carlquist Dr., and then south on 150 East back to Smith Fields Park (1.4 miles). For a 2.4 ish mile total loop. But that looks even more neighborhoody than I would like.

Here the trail switches to the other side of the creek.

Noisy little rapid.

The creek.

Crossflower, or purple mustard. They are super pretty, but super stinky. It is an invasive, noxious weed. If cows eat them it gives their milk a bad taste and odor.

The creek again.

More purple mustard.

The creek again.

Corner Canyon.

These 2 neighborhood connectors are directly across the creek from each other. I wonder if they plan on putting a bridge in eventually.

The creek again.

Another noisy little rapid.

Corner Canyon again.

Small rapid.

Here the creek bends and drifts away from the trail.

Then it goes into a culvert for about 800 feet, appearing upstream again above Fort St. (but in private areas).

Footprints.

Ebenezer Brown and Phebe Draper Palmer Brown. The first people to settle in what is now Draper.

4 way split. Forward continues on the Ebenezer Brown Trail, left and right are neighborhood connectors. Anyway, we went forward.

What a fun idea to allow your dog to see what happening on the other side of the fence.

Nice wooded section.

The trail makes a hard right, and there is a sign to warn you of that.

Here the trail follows the East Jordan Canal. Which is pretty dry right now. I guess it isn’t quite farming weather though.

This is now the Phoebe Brown Trail, well, the south section. This trail is split into 2 paved parts 

And there appears to be a little bit of unpaved trail heading north from here. I am not sure how far it goes.

However we are going south along the Phebe Brown Trail.

Neat willow tree.

Big tree.

Crossing Old English Rd.

Phebe Brown Trail Sign.

Continuing down.

Control valve.

13540 South (AKA Stokes Ave.). The trail appears to just end here. I confirmed on the Draper Trails page that this is indeed the end.

Well, back the way we came I guess.

Continuing along.

Colorful group of trees.

Crossing Old English Rd.

Canal to the right.

Where the trail swings to the west, and becomes the Ebenezer Brown Trail again.

Another old control valve.

Unofficial dirt trail continuing north along the canal. I am not sure for how long though.

Heading west.

There is a little dip to the right. I think that is where the canal water used to go, back when there were farms here.

Big patch of trees.

Continuing west.

Sun rays.

Corner Canyon Creek again.

Continuing along.

Little rapid.

The creek again.

More stink weeds, or uh, purple mustard.

The creek.

Little rapid.

A long faded poop fairy sign.

We see these on a lot of trails in Draper, and well, other places in the valley as well. The gist of it is: There is no poop fairy, so clean up your dogs poop.

Crossing over Lone Rock Drive again.

No dumping sign.

On the other side of the creek again.

The weird double fencing again.

The creek.

Oh boy. I hope we don’t get rained on.

More double fencing.

The crossing at 3rd East again.

Almost back.

The bridge again.

Upstream.

Downstream.

Back down to Smith Fields Park.

Bonus Content: Dayland Dog Park and Draper City Splash Pad

I noticed the creek continued down in what looked liked like a park across the street, so we decided to follow it.

Oh. It’s a dog park. Well, that explains the fencing haha. But we decided to check it out.

Its a really nice dog park. It has a small dog and large dog area.

The creek.

Little waterfall.

The park, with Steep Mountain to the south.

Nice little pond for the dogs to splash around in. As the sign said, it comes from natural streams and is untreated, so use at your own risk.

Well, poop. End of the line. We decided to just head back the way we came.

The pond again.

Corner Canyon.

Mount Jordan.

Panoramic.

Well, that was fun, but we decided to walk along in the greenspace on the other side. I didn’t realize it was a splashpad until the end. But luckily it’s not splashpad season yet.

Not much better views of the creek here.

Lots of phragmites.

More.

The splashpad. Yet another fun thing kids now have that we never did. Its not fair.

The creek.

Well, that is pretty much the end until we reach 150 East.

There creek does continues below it, then between some apartments. It also looks like they widened it and made it more pretty, but I just felt a little weird walking through a random apartment complex today, plus we’d have to scurry across the street. So, we decided this was good enough.

Beyond here the creek flows through some private areas before flowing through the Galena-Soónkahni Preserve, where it passes by the Jordan River Parkway, and then flows into the Jordan River.

We decided to cut through the splashpad to get back to where we parked.

It is a really neat looking splash pad. And it looks like they even have posts to attach shades too.

So not fair.

More.

Well, bonus content aside, this was neat to enjoy part of the creek in the city. It’s nice to see that the people in charge have started to realize that people like creeks, so they are slowly making them more accessible, and daylighting them etc. It was not very busy which is nice, the views were nice too. The crossings were really dumb though. Meh, 5 out of 10 squirrels.

As for difficulty, it is fairly flat, and completely paved DR2. (ignoring the bonus content, which would bump it up to a 3).

Dogs are allowed, leashed. Please clean up after your furry friends.