Bluff River Trail Location
The Bluff River Trail is located near the Town of Bluff, San Juan County, Utah, within the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. The Four Corners region is home to several Native American Sovereign Nations, National, State, and Tribal Parks and Monuments, and National Forests. Bluff, situated on the north side of the San Juan River in Southeast Utah, is accessible via several Federal, State, and Tribal routes.
The Town of Bluff is one of Utah’s newest (2019) incorporated towns. The 2020 US Census lists Bluff’s population as 237. To this number we add our Navajo and Ute neighbors who come to Bluff to access vital services: education, employment, financial services, health care, Post Office services, and voting. Bluff residents and our neighbors are engaged in arts and crafts, building trades, education, farming, government services, small business, social and medical services, tourism, and volunteerism.
Up until 2022 there was no legal public access from this small desert town to its big desert river without a 3-mile drive to the BLM Sand Island Campground west of the town. The Bluff River Trail provides legal, managed, non-motorized public access from the town to the San Juan River and its floodplain.
The Town of Bluff is one of Utah’s newest (2019) incorporated towns. The 2020 US Census lists Bluff’s population as 237. To this number we add our Navajo and Ute neighbors who come to Bluff to access vital services: education, employment, financial services, health care, Post Office services, and voting. Bluff residents and our neighbors are engaged in arts and crafts, building trades, education, farming, government services, small business, social and medical services, tourism, and volunteerism.
Up until 2022 there was no legal public access from this small desert town to its big desert river without a 3-mile drive to the BLM Sand Island Campground west of the town. The Bluff River Trail provides legal, managed, non-motorized public access from the town to the San Juan River and its floodplain.
