Emigration Canyon

Acreage: 300
Location: Salt Lake County
Date Completed: 2000

Description: Just eight miles east of the burgeoning Wasatch Front, the Boyer Company has donated a sizeable piece of open space to forever protect the watershed, wildlife habitat and scenic vista in Emigration Canyon. Emigration Canyon has a heritage dating back to the Pioneers and is no less significant in the role it plays in the life of Utahns today. With the help of the Emigration Canyon community, Improvement District, Salt Lake County and the Boyer Company, Utah Open Lands was able to successfully demonstrate the benefits of land preservation and protect this acreage from encroaching development. Utah Open Lands currently owns this property as the Boyer Company donated it in fee. UOL is now working with the homeowners' association and Salt Lake County to transfer underlying ownership in the property to one of these entities while retaining the protective conservation easement under the umbrella of UOL.