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Utah Valley has one paved half-mile to a waterfall and one fifteen-mile day on Timpanogos, and most people searching for a hike here are trying to work out which end of that they want. Filter by the thing that actually narrows it — how hard, how far, whether the dog comes, whether the road is even open — then open the guide.

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Why these numbers come with a range attached

A finder wants one number per trail. Utah Valley mostly does not have one. These routes are segments of longer trails, or they are reachable from more than one trailhead, or they get measured to different endpoints — so published figures disagree, sometimes wildly. Provo Peak is a three-mile round trip or a thirteen-mile round trip depending entirely on where you park.

So every entry below carries the published spread, and where a single number is used for sorting, the card says which route that number describes. Nine of the guides linked from this page exist substantially to explain their own disputed figure. Flattening that into one tidy statistic would make this page contradict the pages it sends you to.

There are also no fee amounts anywhere on this site. Forest Service day-use figures change and stale ones circulate for years, so entries name the fee regime and send you to the agency for the number.

Provo Canyon · Easy Bridal Veil Falls ~0.5 mi round trip · Essentially flat Full guide → Provo Canyon & Orem · Easy Provo River Parkway Up to ~15 mi, walk any part · Flat Full guide → American Fork Canyon · Easy Cascade Springs ~0.7 mi of boardwalk loops · Minimal Full guide → Payson Canyon · Easy Grotto Falls ~0.5-0.7 mi round trip · Minimal · figures disputed Covered in the quiet-trails guide → American Fork Canyon · Easy Silver Lake Flat Reservoir ~1 mi loop around the water · Essentially none · figures disputed Covered in the quiet-trails guide → South Fork, Provo Canyon · Easy to moderate Big Springs Hollow ~3.5-4.3 mi loop · ~450-1,000 ft · figures disputed Covered in the quiet-trails guide → Pleasant Grove · Easy or moderate -- both are correct Battle Creek Falls ~1.4 mi round trip · ~450 ft · figures disputed Full guide → Aspen Grove / Sundance · Easy to moderate Stewart Falls ~3.5 mi round trip · ~650 ft · figures disputed Full guide → The bench above Provo & Orem · Easy to moderate, by segment Bonneville Shoreline Trail Varies -- pick a segment · Varies by segment · figures disputed Full guide → Orem to Lehi · Easy Murdock Canal Trail ~17 mi, walk any part · Flat, paved · figures disputed Full guide → Provo · Moderate to strenuous Y Mountain Trail ~2.2-2.4 mi round trip · ~1,100 ft · figures disputed Full guide → Provo · Easy at the bottom, moderate to hard at the top Rock Canyon Trail ~5.7 mi round trip to the upper basin · ~1,400 ft to the upper basin · figures disputed Full guide → American Fork Canyon · Moderate to strenuous Timpanogos Cave Trail ~3 mi round trip · 1,092 ft Full guide → South Provo · Moderate to strenuous Slate Canyon 3.7 mi one way (7.4 mi out and back) · ~3,300 ft for the full canyon · figures disputed Full guide → Lindon & Orem · Hard Dry Canyon ~5.7 mi round trip · ~2,900 ft · figures disputed Covered in the quiet-trails guide → American Fork Canyon · Hard Silver Lake (alpine) ~4.5 mi round trip · ~1,200-1,450 ft · figures disputed Covered in the quiet-trails guide → Provo · Hard Kyhv Peak ~4.5 mi round trip · ~2,800 ft · figures disputed · figures from another guide Full guide → East of Provo · Very hard from the valley; short but steep from the high trailhead Provo Peak ~3 mi RT high trailhead, ~13 mi RT from the valley · ~6,800 ft from the valley · figures disputed · figures from another guide Full guide → American Fork Canyon / Aspen Grove · Very hard Mount Timpanogos ~14-16.7 mi round trip · ~4,400-5,600 ft · figures disputed Full guide → South Utah County · Very hard Mount Nebo Long -- varies by trailhead · Varies by trailhead · figures disputed Full guide →

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The three closures that decide your winter

Hiking here is governed less by snow on the trail than by gates on roads. The Alpine Loop, the Nebo Loop and Kyhv Peak Road all close for the season, and between them they remove the approaches to Cascade Springs, Stewart Falls, both Silver Lakes, Grotto Falls and the short route on Provo Peak. All three are snow-dependent at both ends and the dates move year to year, so check current status rather than the calendar. What is left — the bench, the parkway, the canyons that start at the valley floor — is on the year-round list above.

What this finder deliberately leaves out

Through-routes. The Great Western Trail and the Big Springs connector through to Rock Canyon have no single distance, gain or difficulty, and a tool that sorts on a number cannot represent them without inventing one. They are covered properly in the guides instead. The same goes for fee amounts, trailhead lot counts as a current figure, and anything else that would be wrong by next season.

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Finder last reviewed 2026-08-14. Facts are drawn from this site's own trail guides, each linked from its card. Utah Valley trail statistics are unusually contested, and that is a fact about the trails rather than about the sources. Most of these routes are segments of longer trails, are reachable from more than one trailhead, or are measured to different endpoints. Where the published figures disagree, this directory carries the SPREAD and names which route its filter number describes, in filterBasis. It does not pick a winner. Nine of the guides linked from here exist substantially to explain their own disputed number.