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Corner Canyon in Draper is full of trails for hikers and mountain bikers. One of the main destinations is Ghost Falls. With spring snow runoff, the falls are really nice to visit. With all the large decorative bridges, this was really more like a large urban park hike. Along much of the route were wildlife interpretive signs as well. Trails are well signed at junctions and maps should be available at the trailhead.

Access:

Distance: 1.3 mile
Elevation Gain: 250 feet
Access Rating: Paved

Find your way to the Draper Temple. From there, there are small signs directing you to the Coyote Hollow Trailhead which is just to the SE of the temple and church building on Coyote Hollow Circle, off Gray Fox Drive.

Bridge below Ghost Falls

Our unwelcomed visitor

Ghost Falls

Ghost Falls

Nearing Ghost Falls looking back to the trailhead at the houses

Some cactus next to Ghost Falls

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Along the Ghost Falls Trail

Ghost Falls Trail sign

Bridge at the north end of the Burnham Loop Hiking Trail

Draper LDS Temple and the Oquirrh Mountains

Starting up the Burnham Loop Trail

Along the Burnham Loop Trail

Walking a section of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail with Corner Canyon and Lone Peak

Starting down the trail with Clark's Trail turning right up ahead

Coyote Hollow Trailhead

Bonneville Shoreline Trail

Below: Arrows show the route to Ghost Falls with the least amount of mountain bike traffic. Other trails can be used for the return if you want to make a loop of it.

Route:

This is the best route to avoid mountain bikes. Other trails exist that make a loop possible but you'll run into more bikers on those trails. After the first hundred feet is a junction with the Clark's Trail. Go left, you are now on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. In another hundred feet is the Silica Pit Trail junction. Go left again, staying on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. Follow it as it drops to a old road, the Canyon Hollow Trail. Turn right, follow east. Soon, to the left are two trails, the Burnham Loop trails. Both take you through a riparian area and are hiking only trails. At the north end you'll hit the official Ghost Falls Trail. Follow it east until you reach Ghost Falls. The route goes uphill gently until the last 0.3 miles of hiking where the incline gets a bit steeper just before the falls.

Rattlesnake

My kids enjoyed spending a half hour at the falls playing in the water channels next to it. As I was sitting there on a rock wall, I noticed a large rattlesnake coming toward me 8 feet away. I jumped up screaming like a little girl, grabbed my kids and got out of the way. The falls were quite loud and we didn't notice each other. He was rattling once he noticed me but I still couldn't hear it. I took a picture after I calmed down, he coiled up at that point up in the woods.