Red Butte Garden
Urban Hike
hikers: mark and lecia
distance: 2.42 miles
elevation gain: 534 ft.
It was a free day at Red Butte Garden so we decided to go explore. We had never been on the trails and didn't even know what was there beyond the paved garden areas.
We took the outer trail all the way around, including a detour to the stone house. The trail is labeled as Zeke's trail on this map.
Onward and Upward.
View of Salt Lake
The stone house.
This is where they used to quarry red sandstone for homes, buildings at Ft. Douglas and the Salt Lake Temple. The sandstone was torn out and replaced with granite before the temple was actually built.
This was on the way down when we were next to the stream.
You can't see it but we could hear it! It was so pleasant and pretty.
After the hike we took some time to walk around the gardens.
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