Canyon Range, Utah

Fool Creek Peak

• FOOL CREEK PEAK is the high peak in the Canyon Range east of Delta. From Oak City, go east on Center St to the Oak Creek Campground. Go another mile and 3/4 to a 4wd road on the left.  Drive thru a camp area and get on the correct road at N39 21603, W112 14151.  Drive another 3/4 mile to a creek and park. Walk an ATV track along the creek for over half a mile till it shrinks to a single track trail. Follow it up to a ridge then it goes right to the top at 9700 ft. 4 hours, 2700 gain if you have an ATV or dirt bike. 5 hours if you have 4wd. Mtn bikes would help here. Real Fools can hike from the graded road and kill the whole day.
•  For the HEAD OF LYMAN LOOP, drive to the 4wd Fool Creek Peak turnoff described above but go straight for half a mile on the graded road to BOWEN CAMP in the pines. It has a restroom. Drive about 8/10 of a mile past the restroom and go right on a crude road. Shortly you come to a creek crossing. Cycles and ATVs can go a little further. Follow the ATV track along the right side of the creek then it shrinks to a single track. DON'T take any trails on the left side of the creek. The steep trail goes past a spring at 8200 then on up to a saddle over 9000. This is the Head of Lyman. Now go right to a peak for a view. Turn back here if you just want an easy hike. Experienced hikers can go north down the ridge which towers over the trail you just came up. Keep to the right side of the ridge and soon you enter trees where some have been cut down. Get back on the ridge top at N39 19690, W112 12774  and walk west down the open ridge to a saddle then on to a rocky outcrop. There are two options here. Either go over the outcrop or contour right around it. I went around it on steep ground in the trees then on to Bowen Saddle at 19710, 13333 el 8400 where a good trail goes down to Bowen pine camp. I could have aimed for the trail below the saddle at 19785, 13284. The gain is 2400, 4 hours from the start to Bowen camp,then another half hour walking the road back. Brush not a major factor, but biting flies were out. Nice creeks.
•  For WILLIAMS PEAK el 9200, get off I-15 at exit 184 south of Scipio. Get on the east frontage road and go south a mile and a half to an underpass. Head west under the freeway for 2 miles and don't take any left forks. At 2 miles from the freeway is a main fork. Go left here on FR 93 and it takes you into the east fork of Eight Mile Creek.Park at the end of the road el 6900. Hike on up the creek on a trail. In just a couple of minutes I was able to fill up at a spring on the trail. Follow the trail to a main saddle at 8500. Then veer right and angle up onto the ridge over the creek you just came up. Aim for N39 17981, W112 12301  which is the right shoulder of a bump you need to contour around. From the shoulder, work your way back to the main ridge. You have to go down and up a little. Once on the main ridge it's a stroll to the reg at the top at 17686, 11841. Head straight back down on a ridge at 17739, 12006 and aim for a bald rise. Go over the rise and head down at 17556, 12596 to get back to the creek. 4 or 5 hours, 2400 gain. The last couple of miles of the road in may need 4wd. Take long pants for light brush and skeeters. For experienced off trail hikers only. The 7 year old reg on top was blank.