Its mouth lies at 40°11′07″N 111°39′27″W / 40.18528°N 111.65750°W / 40.18528; -111.65750 at its confluence with Utah Lake, at an elevation 4,491 feet (1,369 m).
Hobble Creek Canyon was surveyed for the route of the Denver and Salt Lake Railway (D&SL), which started construction in 1902 to connect its namesake cities via the Uinta Basin.
Hobble Creek would have provided the connection from the Wasatch Front to the Uinta Basin.
While most of the Colorado portion of the D&SL was built and is still in use today, the company went bankrupt before reaching Utah, and the line was never completed.
They examined the 1902 D&SL survey to determine if this right of way was still feasible; while the approach to the Uinta Basin from Colorado was seriously considered, the approach from the west, via Hobble Creek, was not advanced to the shortlist of viable options.