Bonneville Shoreline Trail temporarily closed in south Provo for debris channel cleanup
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- The Buckley Draw mudslide is pictured Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Provo.
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- Map of temporary Bonneville Shoreline Trail closures are shown.
A one-mile stretch of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail is temporarily closed in south Provo as the city works to clean debris flow out of a debris channel beneath the Buckley Draw burn scar.
The city announced the area of the trail closed Wednesday and will remain closed for approximately one month while crews work.
The closure also extends to the northern part of Springville.
“Heavy equipment will be operating in and around the debris flow channel to remove sediment and debris that accumulated during recent storm events,” Provo said in a news release. “This work is necessary to restore the channel’s capacity and reduce the risk of future flooding or debris impacts.”
The public was asked by the city to respect closure signs and barriers until the project is complete.
The Buckley Draw Fire started Aug. 17 and burned hundreds of acres in Buckley Draw Canyon and around Buckley Mountain. A microburst of rain Aug. 28 triggered a mudslide in the charred canyon, sending debris through an existing debris channel, across a hillside development and damaging a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse on the corner of Nevada Avenue and Slate Canyon Drive.
A second debris flow occurred Sept. 22 and was mostly contained but sent water down Nevada Avenue, Slate Canyon Drive and State Street, temporarily closing portions of the road.
Provo Public Works Director Gordon Haight told the Daily Herald last week that the burn scar remained at risk for more debris flows in the coming weeks but said precautions had been taken to protect private property, including the creation of a third debris basin on a hillside development beneath Buckley Draw.
Haight said the cleanup efforts will take several months to be completed.
“There’s still a ton of debris that we’ve got to move up out there,” Haight said. “Even once we pass the flooding season, we have a good four or five months of cleaning up and repairs of the channel and so forth that need to be done.”
The Bonneville Shoreline Trail extends over 100 miles from the Utah-Idaho border in Cache Valley down to Santaquin.
