Hiking

Here we are in May, and it is definitely time to be outdoors. Great weather and great opportunities.

Here is the Top of Utah fishing report and outdoors calendar. Remember to dress for the conditions and be safe out there.

Fishing report:

OGDEN — The Ogden Trails Network committee is throwing a Shin-Dig party tonight to make the community more aware of the outstanding recreational opportunities available through the city’s 75 miles of urban and foothill trails.

Spring has sprung, and there is plenty of great activities in the Top of Utah.

Here is the weekly outdoors calendar and fishing report. Be safe out there.

FRUIT HEIGHTS — In a forest gully just north of Castle Heights Park off Nichols Road are the remnants of an old park and campground. Once a popular recreation area, massive flooding in 1983 demolished the park, leaving in its wake a solemn trail of damaged trees.

There are still signs of a disjointed trail under the tree rubble and crumbled pieces of asphalt along the streambed, but Fruit Heights is breathing new life into the area. Since last fall, the city has been actively preparing the area for a new trail system, hoping to have it in place by the end of summer.

Steve Petty, Fruit Heights Trails Committee chairman, said the projected milelong trail will begin at Main Street in Kaysville and head up to the area behind Castle Heights Park, where it will branch off into a loop and continue up to U.S. 89.

Here is this week's Top of Utah outdoors calendar and fishing report.

Enjoy.

This month’s featured Take-A-Hike article focuses on Strongs Canyon located at the 36th Street trailhead just above Weber State University. The trail is within minutes of downtown Ogden and provides varying levels of exercise.

One of the unique features of the Wasatch Front is the variety in geologic phenomena that you encounter along the mountain front. At Strongs Canyon, hikers and bikers travel up the gravels of the ancient Lake Bonneville shoreline and travel back in time more than two and a half billion years as they enter the Farmington Canyon Complex. This is a collection of metamorphic rocks that are the basement rock for the Wasatch Front.