Ellison Park, and the sixteen playing surfaces on the west side.

Layton City publishes an unusually long amenity list for its 44 acres: 350 parking spaces, two restroom and concession buildings, one AAA baseball field, two Little League baseball fields, one high school baseball field, three softball fields, eight soccer fields, two football fields, two basketball courts, eight pickleball courts, two tennis courts, one skate park, one splash pad, two playgrounds, one picnic pavilion, a one mile walking trail and free city WiFi. That is sixteen playing surfaces before the skate park, which makes it the largest active recreation park in the city rather than a neighbourhood green.

At 700 North 2200 West, on the west side of the city, roughly 2.6 miles west of Layton City Hall at 437 North Wasatch Drive and about eight minutes to drive. The address was confirmed as a Layton city address at the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 15 August 2026. It sits west of the old Denver and Rio Grande Western railway alignment, which is the line this site's Layton city guide uses to separate the older grid from the newer west side, and the D&RG Trail's 1500 North 2200 West trailhead is a short walk north on the same street.

No. Layton City states it in capital letters on the park's own page and again on its standing Dog Restrictions page: dogs are not allowed at Ellison Park, and the same applies at Layton Commons Park. The other twelve city parks do take leashed dogs, and the list the city publishes is Andy Adams, Camelot, Chapel, Chelsie Meadows, Grey Hawk, Harmony, Legacy, Oak Forest, Sand Ridge, Vae View, Veterans and Woodward. The ban covers the walking trail here as well as the playing fields, so it is worth knowing before the drive rather than at the gate.

Layton City publishes the splash pad as running Monday through Saturday from ten in the morning until eight at night through the summer, closed on Sunday. That is a seasonal figure the city resets each spring, so confirm the current season and hours on the park page before planning around it. It is worth noting the pattern it belongs to: the city's indoor wave pool is closed on Sundays, its Heritage Museum is closed on Sundays, and this splash pad is closed on Sundays. Three city recreation facilities, one calendar.

Online through the city, with seven days' notice, and only inside the season. Layton City publishes reservations as available from 1 May through 30 September in blocks between eight in the morning and ten at night, with the pavilion seating 150, at a resident rate of a 35 dollar minimum for four hours plus eight dollars for each additional hour and a 50 dollar cleaning deposit. Rates and windows reset annually, so read the park page for the current season rather than relying on these figures, which were checked on 15 August 2026.

Almost certainly the family of Ephraim P. Ellison, who led the thirteen year fight that took the Layton farms out of Kaysville and whose seized fifty dollar wagon produced the case that reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 1894. The city's own Heritage Museum runs a standing page titled E.P. Ellison History, which is a strong signal. The honest caveat is that no published city document states in so many words that the park is named for Ephraim P. Ellison specifically rather than for a later family member or the family's milling and canning businesses. The Heritage Museum on 801-336-3930 is the body that can settle it.

No, and this is a correction worth making because the claim circulates. Layton does have funded parking and restroom work under way, and it is at Constitution Circle in Layton Commons Park at the other end of the city, under RAMP award RAMP22-03, whose published scope covers a new pavilion, a new restroom facility, a new parking lot and concrete pathways. No parking expansion at Ellison Park appears on the city's park page, on its RAMP funded projects list, or in any published city document. Somewhere in the retelling, two different parks have been merged.

It depends entirely on the day, and the range is wider than at most parks. On a league Saturday in season the 350 spaces fill by mid morning, the two concession buildings open and the streets around 2200 West carry traffic they do not carry the rest of the week. On a weekday outside the season the same 44 acres are among the quietest ground in the city. If you are weighing an address nearby, visit at both ends of that range rather than once, because a single visit will only ever show you one of them.

They are almost the same size and built for opposite purposes. Ellison is 44 acres of playing surfaces with 350 spaces and two concession buildings, out on the west side. Layton Commons is 47 acres in the middle of the city holding city hall, the Heritage Museum, the Ed Kenley Amphitheater, an indoor wave pool, the Davis Arts Council box office, a Vietnam Memorial Wall, fifteen picnic shelters and a pond. Sixteen playing surfaces against six institutions. The two things they share are their acreage and their dog rule, because both are closed to dogs.