Hooper is the end of the line for two state routes, and a regular stop for the detail.
Hooper lies flat against the east edge of the Great Salt Lake, the western end of both SR-37 and SR-98, with Fremont Island and most of Ogden Bay's 20,000 acres of dikes and marsh inside its lines. The west side is one-to-five-acre lots and the east side mostly under an acre, the older streets have no curb or gutter, and many roads run beside irrigation ditches still in use. Most people here commute out to Ogden, Salt Lake City or Layton. A Fresh Tracks professional comes out to Hooper and details your car, truck or SUV right where it's parked, so there's no drive to add to the commute.
- 4,241
- Feet above sea level
- 9,548
- People, 2024 estimate
- 1854
- Settled
Tomato Days began in 1925 to celebrate the tomato harvest and now brings horse shows, a rodeo, a parade, fireworks, dog races and a cow drop to Hooper every Labor Day weekend.
Lake dust, field dust, road salt: Hooper's year.
Three state routes get brine, the ditches keep the shoulders narrow, the lake's dust and its bugs come with the warm months, and the dikes are the roads out at Ogden Bay.
Winter
Brine on 4000 South, 5900 West and 5500 South before a storm and salt during it, because those are SR-37 and SR-98 and UDOT pre-treats its state routes. The shoulders are narrow where roads run beside the irrigation ditches, so plowed snow sits at the lane edge, and on the older streets without curb and gutter the melt runs across the road instead of down a drain.
Spring
Great Salt Lake dust on windy days, because Hooper sits on the lake's east edge and the shrinking lake has exposed its bed. Out at Ogden Bay the dikes are the roads and the ponds, mud flats and marsh are on both sides of them, and a trip south to the Antelope Island causeway from April to June brings the biting gnats back in the cab.
Summer
Farm dust, because much of the city is still working agricultural land with animals on it, and arena dirt and horse-trailer grit from the horse shows and rodeos at Hooper Park. Dust off the drivable dikes at Ogden Bay, brine flies off the shore in midsummer, and construction dust in a city adding about 275 people a year.
Fall
Waterfowl season at Ogden Bay, where DWR mows the dikes for hunters and treats about 3,000 acres of phragmites each fall, and Tomato Days on Labor Day weekend, with the rodeo at Hooper Park and the parade down 5900 West and 5500 South.
The places near Hooper.
From Hooper, the closest of the places the Journal writes about.
What we do in Hooper.
Fresh Start.
Most of Hooper commutes out to Ogden, Salt Lake City or Layton, so the detail comes the other way: a Fresh Tracks professional in your driveway, on a one-acre lot or a five-acre one, doing the Fresh Start inside and out in about four hours, with no travel fee for the trip out.
Stay Clean and Keep Rollin'.
Between the field dust, the lake dust and the dike roads, a Hooper truck has reasons to stay on the monthly cleaning plan: a Fresh Tracks professional every 2 or 4 weeks on your regular day, only charged after each successful service.
How booking works in Hooper.
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Pick a day and a time.
Any working day, on the site or in your Fresh Tracks app. The $50 deposit is charged at booking and comes off the total; it stays with us if you cancel inside 24 hours.
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A Fresh Tracks professional comes to you.
About four hours, right where it's parked, in your driveway or the lot at work in Hooper.
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Keep it clean with the plan.
A visit every 2 or 4 weeks on your regular day, only charged after each successful service.
If it isn't the best detail you've ever had, your first maintenance clean is on us.
If something was missed, tell us. We'll come back and make it right, free.
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