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Parley's Trail is an east-west cycling and pedestrian multi-use pathway in eastern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
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| Length | 8 mi (13 km) |
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Parley's Trail is an east-west cycling and pedestrian multi-use pathway in eastern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
Parley's trail serves as a east-west multi-use pathway between the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and the Jordan River Parkway. [1] The trail parallels the S Line streetcar though the neighborhoods of South Salt Lake and Sugar House before running along Interstate 80. The trail is 8 miles long, [2] 1.5 miles of which are on roads.
1.2 miles (1.9 km) of separation including bridge and tunnel work is actively being conducted by the Utah Department of Transportation with an expected finish of summer of 2017. [3] In gaps where the path isn't fully separated from cars, the trail has been temporarily routed on sidewalks and on-street bike lanes. Maps and updates on the project can be found on the Parley's Trail Alliance website. [4]
Salt Lake City is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah, as well as the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With an estimated population of 200,567 in 2019, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,222,540. Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area, a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along a 120-mile (190 km) segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,606,548, making it currently the 22nd largest in the nation. It sits at the central core of the larger of only two major urban areas located within the Great Basin.
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