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Council, Forest Service clarify naming rules as Bountiful works to rename and name trails
Summary
Bountiful City Council discussed the U.S. Forest Service's naming criteria for multiple local trails, identified several names rejected as inconsistent with those rules, and directed staff and the trails committee to propose alternate, landscape-based names for priority trails within a week.
Bountiful city staff and the U.S. Forest Service discussed federal naming rules and next steps after several locally proposed trail names were found to conflict with Forest Service criteria.
The city's trails coordinator told the council that the Forest Service requires trail names to be tied to natural landscape or geographic features, disallows names specific to a user group, and will not consider names associated with a person. "The trails need to be associated with natural landscape or geographical feature," staff said, adding that "the name cannot be specific to a user group" and "names associated with a person will not be considered." The Forest Service representative explained the approval process escalates regionally to the Washington office and can take considerable time for names tied to people.
The guidance followed review of about 10'11 trails city staff identified for naming or renaming, including Trail 20201 (Sunset), Trail 30301 (Mahogany Ridge), Trails 307 and 406 (formerly Peregrine), Trail…
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