Hideout Canyon Road

Hideout Canyon Road connects the east end of Onion Creek Trail to Polar Mesa. The trail is almost 11 miles of ever-changing terrain. The trail traverses loose sand, exposed slickrock, gravel roads, and hard-packed dirt. The shelf roads and steep switchbacks provide expansive Thompson Canyon and Fisher Valley views. Hideout Canyon Road is lined predominantly with Utah Juniper, but a handful of large deciduous trees provide a brilliant pop of color during the Fall as their leaves change to bright gold. When starting from Onion Creek Trail, all but one of the obstacles require you to climb over them. Approximately a mile north of Onion Creek Trail, after crossing through an opening in a fence, you quickly descend a steep 16-degree switchback comprised of loose sand and large embedded rocks the size of a beach ball. When starting at Polar Mesa, you are tasked with descending the obstacles and climbing the steep switchbacks. Hideout Road is a perfect trail for beginners in a high clearance 4x4.

Along the trail's north end, 1.75 miles from Onion Creek, campers can find several remote campsites at the BLM's Hideout Canyon Camping Area. Here you can find vault toilets but no other amenities. The rest of the trail offers limited dispersed camping, and the few available sites are subpar. The two dispersed sites observed along the trail are not level and are incredibly close to the road.