Trails in Utah don’t build themselves.
Trails Utah brings trail projects to life by advocating for, planning, funding, and building trails in needed areas throughout the state.
Gifts for them. Trails for Everyone.
Each year, Trails Utah auctions donated gear, experiences, artwork, ski getaways, and more from local partners — with every winning bid helping fund next year’s trail work.
Whether you’re shopping for a unique holiday gift or something for yourself, there’s plenty to choose from.
A few highlights:
- 🎿 Snowbird ski getaway (including a stay at The Cliff Lodge + lift tickets)
- 🛍️ $600 Backcountry.com shopping spree
- 🎒 Gear from Osprey, Cotopaxi, Teton Gear, KÜHL + more
- 🖼️ Utah artwork, local experiences, tickets + more
Bidding runs November 16–29.
How do trails move from concept to construction?
From May through October this year, our Trail to Membership campaign followed a different trail project or planning effort each month to show what it really takes to complete a new trail 👇
- May: Bonneville Shoreline Trail (BST) Strategic Planning Toolkit | progress in 2026
- June: Herriman BST | delays and hurdles
- July: Tri-Canyon Trail Plan | end of a 10+ year planning cycle
- August: Tushar Mountains Trail System Planning | beginning of a 10+ year planning cycle
- September: Red Butte Quarry Loop trail | phase II trail updates
- October: Celebrating our new members
Mission
Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.
We attribute so much of our success to YOUR support!!
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THANK YOU!
Vision
Trails Utah seeks to enhance the quality of life for Utah’s citizens, invigorate local economies, and provide sustainable outdoor recreation for residents and visitors to the state.
LATEST PROJECTS
IN-PROGRESS: The BST Strategic Planning Toolkit
Laying the groundwork to connect Utah’s most iconic trail.
While trail construction often gets the spotlight, it’s long-term planning that makes progress possible.
Our new Bonneville Shoreline Trail Strategic Planning Toolkit brings together mapping, coordination, and shared data to help communities close gaps, align priorities, and move the BST closer to completion across northern Utah.
ADVOCACY
Trails Utah works for you, the trail user, to help create legally secure trail access, establish easements for reasonable trail alignments, and advocate for open space that can host trails and provide recreational access close to where we live and work.
We also work to:
- Promote more trail and open space planning and funding
- Represent interests of a diversity of non-motorized trail user groups
- Mediate trail user/land owner/management issues
- Urge organizations and government to preserve open space and open space access for trails
- Encourage consistent funding for trail maintenance and signage needs
DOING GOOD FOR YOUR TRAILS
ADVOCACY
Working with local and state government to maintain access and funds for sustainable trail infrastructure and usage.
CREATION
Taking on projects throughout the state to create and connect trail systems.
enhancement
Improving quality, access, and sustainability of Utah’s existing trail infrastructures.
FUNDING
Working to obtain and appropriately allocate the funds needed to move forward on a variety of trail projects in the state.
Partners & Grantors
Trails Utah is grateful for the foundations and agencies who support our work.
We truly couldn’t do it without you!
Vic & Ann Heilweil
Andrea Dumke & Michael Anthony Manship
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Land Acknowledgment
Trails Utah acknowledges that the lands on which we work and recreate are unceded ancestral lands and the contemporary home of the Goshute, Ute, Paiute, Shoshone and Navajo peoples. We honor the truth of their original stewardship of these lands and recognize that many trails in this state were first created and maintained by them.We pay tribute to their profound connections to Utah’s natural environments, their traditions, and the breadth of collective knowledge that guide us toward living sustainably on these lands, both now and in the future.
