Bluff Street Cliffs Bike Riding Trail

Bluff Street Cliffs Trail - Also called Owen's Trail. Short singletrack and slickrock ride on north edge of St. George, climbing along the cliffs. Intermediate technical, mild climb. Season year-round.

The Bluff Street Cliffs trail has been renamed Owen's Trail. This is a short but fun ride on the cliffs along the north edge of St. George. This is a quick out-and-back ride of 3 miles (1.5 miles each way) that features some very nice rock, requiring good technical skills. Because it's within a couple of bicycle-minutes from most of St. George's motels, you can hit this trail during the morning chill and be back before your roommates have shaken off the morning groggies.

Getting there: From St. George Blvd (the main drag), head north on Main Street (towards the "Dixie" painted on the big rock above the cliffs). When you reach Hope Street, turn right, then immediately take the left fork and climb Skyline Drive to the top of the cliffs. Turn left on Snow Canyon Parkway (labeled Skyline Drive on some city maps, and called Turtle Road by many locals before the "great widening"). 1/3 mile up from the intersection, find a singletrack trail heading off to your left at GPS N 37° 07.150' W 113° 34.672'. Follow the trail left around the mountain.

Pioneer Park trailhead: Park on the far west end of the picnic loop in Pioneer Park. (To get on the loop, go east on Skyline Drive past the Pioneer Park parking lot and take the next left.) Head straight west onto the slickrock, keeping on the edge of the small cliffs that are to your right. You'll dump out onto a singletrack that hits Snow Canyon Parkway right across the street from the Bluff Street Cliffs trailhead. This adds about 1/3 mile of rock riding to your trip. And, the Pioneer Park area is a good spot for non-riders to have a little fun while you skin your legs up. (You can also park in one of the two gravel lots and ride west along the road to the Owen's trailhead.)

Via City Creek trailhead: You can also get to Owen's Trail by parking in the big lot at the top of the hill, starting out on City Creek, then forking left on the connector as shown on the map. But you'll miss the fun technical rock-garden on Owen's at mile 0.3 to 0.5.