Salt Lake City: Hell Canyon - Ensign Peak Trailhead
The Wasatch Range defines the setting of Salt Lake City’s Hell Canyon and Ensign Peak Trailhead — its dry western foothills rise directly above northern neighborhoods and the broad Salt Lake Valley. The trailhead serves Ensign Peak, a prominent overlook on public foothill land north of downtown. In July 1847, Brigham Young and other Mormon pioneers climbed the peak shortly after entering the valley, and it became an early surveying point for their planned settlement. Hell Canyon cuts through the same foothill terrain, where residential streets meet open slopes. From this edge of Salt Lake City, the urban grid extends west toward the Great Salt Lake, while the Wasatch Front frames the valley’s eastern side. The area connects a densely settled capital-city landscape with trails and ridgelines immediately above it.
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