Join us on the trails for one of our 2026 community hikes! 🌺🍄🟫🦅✨
4/18 | Mental Health Benefits of Trails with Dru White
About: Join Trails Utah for a welcoming community hike focused on mental health and well-being, led by Dru White and Trails Utah’s Sarah Bennett, Sarah Morton, and Cassie Peterinelli.
When: Saturday, April 18, 2026.
Led by: Trails Utah + Dru White
Type: Community event
5/16 | Blooms in the Foothills: Hike with a Red Butte Garden Botanist 🌸
About: This hike is a chance to spend a few hours on the trail learning about the plants and spring blooms that shape the foothills.
When: Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Where: Foothills behind Red Butte Garden & the Natural History Museum
Led by: Trails Utah + Red Butte Garden’s Jason Baker
Type: Community event
6/6 | Weed mitigation at Lodestone Mtn. Bike Park 🚵
About: Join a volunteer effort to clear the weeds at Lodestone Mountain Bike Park!
When: Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 9 a.m.
Where: Lodestone Regional Park | Meet near the tennis courts. Can’t be there right at 9am? Find the WGC Hawaiian jerseys, and you’ll find us!
Led by: Trails Utah & The West Granite Composite (WGC) Mountain Bike Team
Type: Volunteer event
6/19 | Trail Running Film Festival w/ SLRC 🏃♀️
About: Come stoke your trail fire with a night of endurance, strength, dust and grit at the SLC stop of the Trail Running Film Festival!
When: Friday, June 19, 2026
Where: Highland High School Auditorium
Led by: Salt Lake Running Company
Type: Partner event
Salt Lake Running Company (SLRC) will be donating proceeds from the event to Trails Utah—THANK YOU, SLRC!
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8/9 | Stargazing Hike with Salty Star Run Club ✨
About: Join Trails Utah and Salty Star Run Club for a hike timed around sunset to Twin Lakes, followed by an evening of stargazing under one of the darkest skies of the month at Brighton.
When: Sunday, August 9, 2026.
Led by: Trails Utah + Salty Star Run Club
Type: Community event
8/22 | Weed mitigation with CCF
About: Join Trails Utah and the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation (CCF) for a day of weed mitigation on the Ferguson Canyon section of BST.
When: Saturday, August 22, 2026.
Led by: Trails Utah + Cottonwood Canyons Foundation (CCF)
Type: Volunteer event
Select August 22nd as your activity date at the end of the registration process.
About: Fall is raptor migration season, making this a great time to learn more about birds of prey and the landscapes they move through. This event will begin with a live-bird presentation at the trailhead, followed by a community hike with time for bird spotting and trail-based learning along the way.
When: Saturday, September 12, 2026.
Led by: Trails Utah + HawkWatch
Type: Community event
About: Join Trails Utah and CCF for a huge restoration project on the Twin Lakes – Solitude snow making line. We’ll meet at the Silver Lake Visitor Center, hike to the work site together, then install erosion control blankets that will stabilize the hillside and support the trail’s recovery.
When: Friday, September 25, 2026 | 8 a.m. – noon
Where: Silver Lake Visitor Center
Led by: Trails Utah & the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation
Type: Volunteer event
*select September 25th as your activity date at the end of the registration process.
9/26 | Cactus Planting w/ SLC Public Lands 🌵
About: Help restore the Bonneville Fire burn area by planting native cacti with Salt Lake City Public Lands. Together, we’ll help reduce erosion, restore native vegetation, and improve wildlife habitat.
When: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026
Where: Near the University of Utah
Led by: Salt Lake City Department of Public Lands
Type: Volunteer event
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