Settlement Canyon

[Tyler]

Our church had a father's and son's campout over the weekend. It was located up Settlement Canyon, which is located just outside of Tooele. I actually found the canyon itself really beautiful and despite all the large trailers, I found a few great campsites that would be great for a one-night getaway. There is a nice little creek that runs through the canyon. The canyon is gated off (likely by Rio Tinto mining) after 5 miles or so (large group camping area there before the gate).

I had brought along the ropes and harness' to see if Caiden wanted to try some rappelling. The problem was that cliff faces were slim-pickings. The mountains around us were really steep, but no vertical faces. We did find this small 12' rock jutting out amongst the trees, so I had him practice on that one.

Here is a short video I made of my son rappelling

 

[DOSS]

Settlement can be a nice place for a quick getaway. The gate is to the private property owned by a number of different people, thankfully not KUC so I can get the key every so often and hang out. Heck I was even married up that canyon.

Middle Canyon and Ophir have more vertical faces to rap or climb as well as some nice campsites as well.

 

[Tyler]

The gate is to the private property owned by a number of different people, thankfully not KUC so I can get the key every so often and hang out.

That's great to know. You never know going up there. Kind of sad that there is so much un-used and they can control that area. I would spend more time up Butterfield if there was any place to camp that wasn't blocked by a big ugly cement barrier spray painted "stay out".

 

[DOSS]

That's great to know. You never know going up there. Kind of sad that there is so much un-used and they can control that area. I would spend more time up Butterfield if there was any place to camp that wasn't blocked by a big ugly cement barrier spray painted "stay out".

There are a bunch of campsites on the Middle Canyon side of Butterfield, even a decent downhill bike trail at the top going into Middle canyon. No camping on the Butterfield side though