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Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, & Parks funding will host 25 watershed walks in Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, and West Valley City through the Seven Creeks | Walk Series. Programming will lay the foundation for youth to become community leaders.
Read MoreAccess to nature is critical to our mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Follow this journey of recovery as the natural beauty of the Wasatch Range restores balance and strength after tragedy.
Read MoreA creek walk along Red Butte, Emigration, and Parleys creeks with local students, exploring the Three Creeks Confluence in the Glendale neighborhood. Students learned about Salt Lake City’s underground waterways, removed noxious weeds, and chalked a message above the underground creeks. Fish are here.
Read MoreMy Canyon Creeks receive Wells Fargo grant for expansion to the seven creeks. Sites provide users opportunity to explore the new watersheds in Salt Lake County, UT.
Read MoreThree bridges converging to create a community stage in the Glendale neighborhood of Salt Lake City, UT by local artists, Wendy Wischer and John Mack. The temporary installation represents the underground creeks (Red Butte, Emigration, and Parleys creeks) at the Three Creeks Confluence.
Read MoreA grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation to fund the My Canyon Creeks websites. It will expand the scope to a watershed-scale for users of the popular My Jordan River to Salt Lake County, UT.
Read More$20,000 from the Utah Department of Agriculture will fund the removal of noxious weeds and plant desirable vegetation to restore habitat value and enhance the Mill Creek Confluence in South Salt Lake, UT.
Read MoreCheck out the two design concepts for daylighting Emigration Creek through Herman Franks Park in Salt Lake City, UT. Designs were produced by Bockholt Landscape Architecture with feedback from the community.
Read MoreShare your thoughts, visions, and ideas at the second community design charrette for daylighting Emigration Creek at Herman Franks Park in Salt Lake City, UT. Your feedback will be used to create a community-based design and master plan for the effort.
Read MoreWe are creating a community-based design vision to uncover Emigration Creek through Herman Franks Park in Salt Lake City, UT. This restorative addition will activate, supplement, and enhance the current uses at the park, without disrupting them.
Read MoreWe support organizations working to preserve the heritage of the spectacular natural resources in the Salt Lake Valley. Restoring the relationship between snowpack and streambed, and between nighttime and dark are connected.
Read MoreWe’ve lost connection to our seven green veins that allow life to thrive in our upland desert ecosystem. Uncovering Emigration Creek will rediscover our past—one that celebrates water, life, and justice.
Read MoreA grant to fund Three Creeks Confluence urban intervention series from the Jordan River Commission. Projects include a painted creek channel, chalkboard visioning panel, and wayfinding installation.
Read MoreUncovering our urban creeks gives families direct access to nature in their backyards. Instead of transporting people from the city into natural spaces, we can bring natural spaces to the people in the city. Streams empower residents in marginalized communities with the development of a passion for an outdoor space evolving into upward mobility via the natural sciences.
Read MoreWatch as you fly over each of our seven creeks from headwaters in the canyons to their confluence with the Jordan River, using Google Earth. The line indicates where the creek is flowing above and below ground through our cities.
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