April 23, 2020

Bear Canyon Suspension Bridge

hikers:  Landon, Annie, Ethan, Mom

We were celebrating Annie's graduation from BYU and Annie, Landon, Ethan and I hiked up to the suspension bridge in Draper.  It was the first time for all of us, except Landon.  This was a fun hike!

We started at the trailhead at the Orson Smith Park in Draper.  The parking lot was full!  Lots of people hiking and walking these days with the coronavirus limiting so many activities.  

Starting out.  The cloud cover was a good thing on this trail at this time of day.

A sign on the trail.

It was a 2.3 mile loop.  Switchbacks from the parking lot to the aqueduct trail.  Walk a ways north on the aqueduct trail and more switchbacks up to the Bonneville shoreline trail.  That is where the suspension bridge is and it's cool.  Then you come down the trail on the other side of the suspension bridge and it has some switchbacks, so that tells you there is some elevation gain, but its doable and a good family hike.  This was an overcast day, if not it would have been a hike in the afternoon sun since there are not a lot of trees.

This was just before we got to the bridge, and I took this photo for my brother, Ralph!

The awesome bridge and my awesome kids, cougars all of them!

I read there is another bridge beyond that, which is worth continuing on to see, but we weren't aware of that.  Next time

And then it was home to celebrate the graduation with the rest of the crew.
I don't know how to rotate the image but you get the idea.  mmmmm!