NORTH SALT LAKE—When the Jordan River Commission began 15 years ago, there was only one public launch point for paddling on the water and a scattered series of disconnected trail segments for walking and cycling.

But since then, a constellation of stakeholders—from three counties, 16 cities, state agencies, Rocky Mountain Power, conservation groups and various private landowners—have worked to transform the Jordan River corridor into a 45-mile-long parkway and trail network with nearly two dozen canoe and kayak ramps built along its winding route between Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake.

"It’s just remarkable to me what has been able to be accomplished by a group that doesn't have any land use authority, doesn’t have any statutory authority, but has persuasion, vision and persistence," s

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