The west flats North Salt Lake
Old lake bed, a park every few streets, and the county trail's south door
Foxboro, and the flat half of the city.
West of the freeway the ground is old Lake Bonneville lake bed, flat enough that the street pattern could put a park every few blocks, and the city's own map counts eleven of them on this side alone. It also holds 8,208 linear feet of wetland trail, the southernmost signed trailhead on the county's paved trail, a municipal boat takeout on the Jordan River, and the site of a nine year argument about an incinerator that finally stopped burning on 30 June 2022.
Southern Utah is my home turf. North Salt Lake is not, so these pages are researched rather than lived: the facts come from the city, the Utah Geological Survey, the state air quality record and the operators themselves, and each one carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent does the on the ground work here.
The live question
Can you walk to the train from the west side of North Salt Lake?
Only from the furthest west blocks, and even then it is a walk rather than a stroll. There is no commuter rail station inside North Salt Lake. The nearest is the Woods Cross station at 750 South 800 West in the next city, with two park and ride lots and roughly 230 spaces, and the four stations that serve the whole of Davis County are Woods Cross, Farmington at 450 North 850 West, Layton at 150 South Main and Clearfield at 1250 South State. Checked 15 August 2026.
The bus answer improved recently and most write ups have not caught up. On its change day of Sunday 13 April 2025, UTA introduced route 417, which runs through Woods Cross, North Salt Lake and Rose Park and links commuter rail with the light rail Green Line. The same change day adjusted routes 470, 626 and 627 and replaced the Midtown Trolley with route 628 Layton Westside. The longer distance routes serving this corridor are 455, 470, 472 and 473. Change days move all of this, so a route number is worth re-checking after each one.
On price, commuter rail fares are distance based, at a base fare for one station plus a smaller increment for each additional station, with a published maximum for the full length of the line, while local bus and light rail run a flat one way fare and a day pass. There is no light rail in Davis County at all, which surprises people who arrive from a Salt Lake County address expecting one.
The medical waste incinerator that Foxboro spent nine years fighting stopped burning on 30 June 2022, and half the material you will find online still describes it in the present tense. Stericycle ceased operation of its hospital, medical and infectious waste incinerator in North Salt Lake on 30 June 2022, after what coverage called a nine year battle and a thirty three year history at the site. The route there was long: a 2.3 million dollar fine in 2015 and an agreement to move the burn operations to a remote site in Tooele County away from the Foxboro neighbourhood, a Tooele proposal to burn 18,000 tons of medical waste a year against 7,000 tons a year here, the move still in limbo in 2018, and the Tooele plan abandoned in 2019 when the parcel proved unworkable and the company cited water costs. Incineration ended here instead. What occupies the site now, and whether the company retains any North Salt Lake operation, is not stated by any issuing body that could be reached, so this page does not describe it either.
The park count
Eleven named parks on one side of one freeway, and almost nobody counts them.
The city publishes 28 numbered park and trail sites across the whole municipality, and eleven of the parks are on the west side alone, plus the Wetlands Trails and the paved path along Redwood Road. Every address below is the city's own, taken from its Parks and Trails Map and Guide and checked against its facility system on 15 August 2026.
| Park | The city's own address | What the city says about it |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy Regional Park | 1140 West 1100 North | The big west side park, with the splash pad, and the city's own name for it |
| Foxboro South Community Park | 280 North Greenwich Drive | A separate, smaller site; the city lists small boweries and nothing more |
| Fox Hollow Park | 655 North Fox Hollow Drive | Accessible, with parking and a reservable pavilion capped at 80 people |
| Cambria Park | 1037 West Norfolk Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Stone Park | 996 North Elizabeth Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Stonehenge Park | 956 West Stonehenge Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Laurel Park | 485 Winchester Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Oldham Park | 998 North Oldham Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Boston Park | 290 North Boston Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Buckingham Park | 216 Buckingham Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
| Caleb Park | 175 North Caleb Drive | A neighbourhood park on the Foxboro street pattern |
Addresses and descriptions from the City of North Salt Lake Parks and Trails Map and Guide and its facility detail pages, checked 15 August 2026. The brochure file itself is dated 2019, so treat the amenity marks as the city's own list and confirm any single amenity before promising it. Where the brochure and a facility page disagree on a spelling, the facility page is used. Reservable pavilions and their fee ladders are set annually and are booked through the city's own catalogue.
Two of those need untangling before anything else. Site number 1 on the city's own list is Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North, and the city's trails committee minutes refer to it simply as Legacy Park when they discuss it as an event venue and a bike rack priority. The practical city guide on this site calls the same place Foxboro North Regional Park three separate times, and at least one trail database gives that name at 1120 West 1100 North. Both names are in circulation for what appears to be one park at 1100 North. The city's own name is the one used here.
The second is that Foxboro South Community Park at 280 North Greenwich Drive is a genuinely different, smaller site with small boweries and little else. So the city has both a regional park in the Foxboro area and a Foxboro south community park, they are about a mile apart, and confusing them is easy. Fox Hollow Park at 655 North Fox Hollow Drive is the third of the reservable ones, accessible, with parking and a pavilion capped at 80 people.
The rest are neighbourhood parks in the ordinary sense, dropped into the street pattern at intervals, and their value is exactly that: eight of them within a few streets of each other means very few west side addresses are more than a short walk from open grass. That is a design decision rather than an accident, and it is the single most useful thing to know about how this side of the city was laid out.
The details
Getting there
It sits at 1100 North on the west side with its own parking, and it doubles as the city's outdoor events venue: Monday food trucks and a vendor fair run here through the season, and the city hosted a stop on the regional Ogden to Provo bike day at this park on 16 May 2026. It is also one of the priority locations on the city's bike rack programme.
Before you go
- Two names are in circulation for this park. The city calls it Legacy Regional Park; other sources call it Foxboro North Regional Park.
- The splash pad runs on a season set by the city rather than on the weather. Check the current dates before a hot September afternoon.
- This is the west side's event ground. Check the city calendar before planning an ordinary quiet afternoon here.
- The trail access near 1100 North carries restrooms, water, a playground and a seasonal splash pad, which makes it the better of the city's two trail doors for a family.
The wet ground
8,208 linear feet of trail through a piece of lake bed the city decided not to build on.
The city's own parks list gives the Wetlands Trails a single figure and no map: 8,208 linear feet, which works out at about a mile and a half. That is a precise number from a municipality that publishes almost no trail mileages anywhere else, and it is on none of the summaries of this city. The practical city guide separately gives 23 acres of designated wetlands at 515 North Cutler Drive for the wetlands park itself. Both can stand: the brochure lists the trails and prints no acreage, the guide prints the acreage and not the trail length.
What it actually is, is old Lake Bonneville lake bed that stayed wet. The west half of this city is flat because it is a lake floor, and the parts of it that hold water are the parts the layout left alone. Walking the wetland trails is the one place on this side of the freeway where you can see what the ground was before the street pattern arrived, and in spring it is loud with birds in a way the neighbourhood streets a hundred yards away are not.
What this page will not do is turn that into a birding destination, because the county has a page for that and this is not it. The managed wetlands, their migration calendar and the access permit rule that took effect in 2026 sit at the region topic. The wetland trails here are a neighbourhood amenity on a lake bed, and the honest description stops there.
The details
Getting there
The trails run through the wetland ground inside the west side street pattern, so they are reached from the neighbourhood rather than from a car park at the end of a drive. The city publishes the linear footage and no map, which means a first visit is a matter of following the path from wherever you meet it.
Before you go
- 8,208 linear feet is the city's own figure and it is the only trail length this municipality publishes for anything.
- This is not a managed wildlife area and it carries none of the county's access permit rules. It is a city trail on wet ground.
- The 23 acre figure and the Cutler Drive address come from the practical city guide rather than from the brochure, which prints no acreage.
- Spring is the season with the most standing water and the most noise. It is also the season with the most mud on the path.
Two doors and a boat ramp
The county's paved trail has its southernmost signed entrance on this side of town.
The city's own list gives the Legacy Parkway Trail running from 600 South to 1200 North through North Salt Lake, and marks restrooms, a drinking fountain and parking on it. Two access points matter. The Center Street trailhead at 1100 West Center Street is the southernmost signed trailhead on the entire trail, which is a genuinely notable thing for a city to hold and is not mentioned on any general write up of this place. And the access at 1100 North, beside the big park, carries restrooms, water, a playground and a seasonal splash pad, which makes it the better door if anybody in the party is small.
Everything else about that trail belongs to the county rather than to this city. Its length, its full trailhead list, what happens at either end, the mitigation ground it runs past and what the current parkway widening means for a ride are all written once at the region topic, for all five cities the trail passes through. This page gives you the two doors and their provision and then hands over, which is the whole arrangement.
One correction while we are here, because it circulates. Eaglewood is not a Legacy trailhead. It is a bench area several hundred feet up on the far side of the freeway from the trail, and there is no access between them that does not involve driving across the city.
The third thing on this side is the river, and it is the city's own. Porter's Takeout, which the city also calls Porter's Landing Boat Takeout, sits at 50 South Jordan River Drive with parking, restrooms and a trailhead marked on the city's grid. It is where the city's September paddle finishes, coming downstream from a launch inside Salt Lake City, and it is a real municipal boat facility rather than a viewing point. The river itself is Salt Lake County's subject and this page stops at the bank.
The details
Getting there
Follow Center Street west from the city centre, across the highway and the corridor, and the trailhead is at the far end at 1100 West. It is the southernmost signed entrance on the whole trail, which means everything from here runs north, and the connection at the south end is the county page's subject rather than this one's.
Before you go
- This is a door, not a destination. The trail's length, termini and full trailhead list are the region topic's.
- The other city door is beside the big park at 1100 North, and it has restrooms, water and a playground where this one does not.
- UDOT has been widening the parkway alongside the trail through 2026 and publishes nothing about trail closures. Check the project page before planning a ride.
- Porter's Landing at 50 South Jordan River Drive is the city's own boat takeout, about two and a half miles from City Hall.
The southernmost signed trailhead on a thirteen mile county trail is at the end of Center Street, and no summary of this city mentions it.
The other direction
Tunnel Springs Park
The bench doors on the far side of the freeway, for when flat and paved is not what you want.
Read the guideThe market side
The North Salt Lake city guide
The west side's housing stock and what it prices against, with every figure carrying a date.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
The index for these fifteen towns, and the seven subjects written once for all of them.
Open the hubLiving with it
A flat side of town with more open grass per street than the hill has.
The honest summary of the west side is that it trades altitude for provision. There is no view and no trail climbing off the end of the road, and in exchange there are eleven named parks, a wetland trail the city measures in feet, two doors onto a paved county trail, a splash pad, a boat takeout and flat ground that clears of snow before the bench does. For a household that would rather walk than climb, that is not a consolation prize.
What it also has is neighbours. The corridor sits across Redwood Road, the freeway runs along the eastern edge, and the medical waste incinerator that used to sit near here stopped burning on 30 June 2022 after a fight that ran most of a decade. Naming all of that plainly is more useful than either omitting it or dramatising it, and the mover page carries the corridor properly, with the state permit record and the question of who to ring on an odour day.
The thing that is genuinely unresolved is the chronology. Nobody publishes Foxboro's acreage, its master developer, the annexation date that brought this ground into the city, a unit count or a build out timeline, and the domain the neighbourhood used to publish under did not resolve when this was checked on 15 August 2026. There are apparently two entitlements rather than one, with Foxboro North established on 27 June 2007 and its general development plan amended in 2012, and resolving that properly is a question for the city's community and economic development department rather than for a page like this one.
The west side, in numbers
11
named city parks on this side of the freeway
8,208 ft
of wetland trail, the city's own figure
30 Jun 2022
the day the incinerator stopped burning
0
commuter rail stations inside the city line
The trail itself
The Legacy Parkway Trail
Written once for the five cities it passes through, with the termini, the trailheads and the widening work.
Read the guideAcross the road
The refinery corridor
The plant inside the line, the permit record, the alarm test schedule and who to call on an odour day.
Read the guideThe county's water
The lakeside parks
Where the ponds and the walkable water edges are, county wide, once you leave the city's own street pattern.
Read the guideKeep reading
More of North Salt Lake on The Local.
The slow one
Springhill Geologic Park
Eighteen homes over fifteen years, a buyout in 2012, and a park on the failure surface.
Read the guideThe sudden one
Parkway Drive, 2014
Six in the morning on 5 August 2014, on a mined slope that had been signed off.
Read the guideThe trail door
Tunnel Springs Park
The city's own door onto the shoreline trail, and a network its committee calls broken.
Read the guideThe bench
Eaglewood
A municipal eighteen on the hill, a fireworks line drawn through the middle of a city.
Read the guideMoving here
The refinery corridor
One refinery inside the line, four next door, and a noon alarm that is not meant for you.
Read the guideThe companion
North Salt Lake, in full
Two landslides, a bench trail door, a west side of eleven parks and one plant inside the line.
Read the pageQuick answers
The west side, answered.
No. There is no commuter rail station inside North Salt Lake at all. The nearest is the Woods Cross station at 750 South 800 West in the next city, with two park and ride lots and roughly 230 spaces, and it is a genuine walk only from the furthest west blocks. The four stations serving Davis County are Woods Cross, Farmington at 450 North 850 West, Layton at 150 South Main and Clearfield at 1250 South State. There is no light rail anywhere in Davis County.
Route 417 is the one most write ups miss. UTA introduced it on its change day of Sunday 13 April 2025, running through Woods Cross, North Salt Lake and Rose Park and linking commuter rail with the light rail Green Line. The same change day adjusted routes 470, 626 and 627 and replaced the Midtown Trolley with route 628 Layton Westside. The longer distance routes on this corridor are 455, 470, 472 and 473. UTA change days move route numbers and stops several times a year, so re-check after each one.
Eleven named city parks sit on the west side, plus the Wetlands Trails and the paved path along Redwood Road. They are Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North, Foxboro South Community Park at 280 North Greenwich Drive, Fox Hollow Park at 655 North Fox Hollow Drive, Cambria Park, Stone Park, Stonehenge Park, Laurel Park, Oldham Park, Boston Park, Buckingham Park and Caleb Park. The city publishes 28 numbered park and trail sites across the whole municipality, so the west side holds a substantial share of them.
The city calls it Legacy Regional Park. Site number 1 on the City of North Salt Lake's own Parks and Trails Map and Guide is Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North, and the city's trails committee minutes call it Legacy Park when they discuss it as an event venue. Foxboro North Regional Park is in wide circulation for what appears to be the same park at 1100 North, including on the practical city guide on this site and at least one trail database, which gives that name at 1120 West 1100 North.
8,208 linear feet, which is about a mile and a half. That figure comes from the city's own Parks and Trails Map and Guide, and it is the only trail length this municipality publishes for anything. The city prints no map and no acreage alongside it. The practical city guide separately gives 23 acres of designated wetlands at 515 North Cutler Drive for the wetlands park itself, and both figures can stand because they measure different things.
There are two city doors. The Center Street trailhead at 1100 West Center Street is the southernmost signed trailhead on the entire trail, and the access at 1100 North beside the big park carries restrooms, water, a playground and a seasonal splash pad. The city's own list gives the trail running from 600 South to 1200 North through North Salt Lake with restrooms, a drinking fountain and parking marked. Everything else about the trail, including its length, termini and full trailhead list, is written once at the Davis County region topic.
It stopped burning on 30 June 2022, after what coverage called a nine year battle and a thirty three year history at the site. The route there ran through a 2.3 million dollar fine in 2015 and an agreement to move the burn operations to a remote site in Tooele County away from the Foxboro neighbourhood, a proposal to burn 18,000 tons of medical waste a year there against 7,000 tons a year here, the move still in limbo in 2018, and the Tooele plan abandoned in 2019. What occupies the site now is not stated by any issuing body that could be reached.
Nobody publishes a proper chronology, and this page will not invent one. What is on the record is that Foxboro North was established on 27 June 2007 and that the Planning Commission reviewed amendments to its general development plan in 2012, which suggests Foxboro and Foxboro North are two entitlements with different dates rather than one master plan. Acreage, the master developer, the annexation date that brought the west side into the city, unit counts and build out years are all unpublished, and the neighbourhood's own former domain did not resolve when this was checked.
There is a takeout rather than a launch. Porter's Takeout, which the city also calls Porter's Landing Boat Takeout, is at 50 South Jordan River Drive, and the city's own map marks parking, restrooms and a trailhead there. It is where the city's September paddle finishes after coming downstream from a launch inside Salt Lake City, and the city makes canoes, kayaks and life vests available in limited numbers at no cost for that event, with registration required and opening on 1 August.
Eleven parks, a wetland trail and a corridor on the other side of the road.
The west side is where this city's flat ground, its trail doors and its densest park provision are, and it is also the side that sits closest to a working corridor. Both of those are worth understanding at street level rather than at city level, because which block a house is on changes the answer to both. Send me the streets you are weighing and I will put you with a Davis County partner agent who works this side of the freeway, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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