Hobble Creek is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in
Utah County, Utah. Its mouth lies at at its confluence with
Utah Lake, at an elevation . Its source is located at , at the confluence of the
Left Fork and
Right Fork Hobble Creek in the
Wasatch Range. The source lies at an elevation . The unincorporated community of
Hobble Creek occupies the valley of the creek and its Left Fork.
Hobble Creek Canyon was surveyed for the route of the
Denver and Salt Lake Railway (D&SL), which started construction in 1902 to connect its namesake cities via the
Uinta Basin. Hobble Creek would have provided the connection from the
Wasatch Front to the Uinta Basin. While most of the Colorado portion of the D&SL was built and is still in use today, the company went bankrupt before reaching Utah, and the line was never completed.
In 2019, the
Uinta Basin Rail project published their list of route alternatives for a new effort to link the Uinta Basin by rail. They examined the 1902 D&SL survey to determine if this right of way was still feasible; while the approach to the Uinta Basin from Colorado was seriously considered, the approach from the west, via Hobble Creek, was not advanced to the shortlist of viable options.
See also
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List of rivers of Utah
References
External links
Rivers of Utah
Wasatch Front
Rivers of Utah County, Utah
Tributaries of Utah Lake
Wasatch Range
Springville, Utah
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