We love hiking! We hike often all throughout the year, and have found so many great trails! There is just something special about being together as a family exploring the outdoors, and then arriving at a beautiful destination. It is a wonderful adventure for our family.
Utah has so many hikes. Thousands of different trails. We share all of the hikes that we have hiked as family, and give all the details here that you’ll need as you head out on the trail. How long, how hard, fees required, and more.
I grew up in Ephraim, and the S for Snow College overlooked the first 18 years of my life. I wasn't a hiker then, though, and I never made the trek up to visit it. As a result, this is one of the first letter-hikes I wanted to do. There…
Fountain Green is a small town in Sanpete County. There is a hillside FG that can be spotted on the east side of the road as you enter town from the north. This letter is very easy to visit as it is not much of a hike up to it.…
The Juab J is easily visible from I-15 as you pass the middle Nephi exit. It faces southwest on the east side of the freeway just north of the canyon. As far as we could tell, it is unhikable. Google maps shows several trails leading to the J, but all…
Our quest to find hillside letters led us to Sanpete County this past week. We stopped in the small town of Moroni to give the M a try. It was really easy to find, but more difficult to reach. The M faces south, so if you enter town from…
The Block U, as it is properly called stands on the hill above the University of Utah campus. Houses have encroached on the U since it became the 2nd block letter built in the US and the first in Utah in 1907. Now you park in a neighborhood and take…
We are on a letter-quest here at Utah Family Adventures, and the latest letter we collected was the Viewmont Highschool V in Centerville. To call this one a hike is a bit of a stretch. It is more of a drive to the bottom and a walk up to the…