The west flats North Salt Lake
The flat west side of North Salt Lake, off the Eaglewood bench
Foxboro, North Salt Lake's flat west side
West of the freeway the ground goes flat, because it is old Lake Bonneville lake bed, and Foxboro is the planned neighborhood laid out across it. It is one of the city's three parts, the counterweight to Eaglewood up on the hill: a grid of streets with a park every few blocks, a wetland trail through the wet ground, and a mix of single-family houses, townhomes and apartments. Here is what living on the flat side is actually like.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Foxboro is the flat, planned side of North Salt Lake, the west half of the city that sits below the freeway on old lake bed. If Eaglewood is the bench, the hill, the golf course and the view, Foxboro is the trade in the other direction: level ground, a short walk to open grass almost anywhere you stand, and a mix of single-family houses, townhomes and apartments rather than one kind of home. The city counts eleven named parks on this side of the freeway, threads a wetland trail through the wet ground, and holds the southernmost door onto the paved county trail. The honest catch is the working corridor across Redwood Road, close enough that the block you pick matters. None of that is hidden, and all of it is worth knowing before you choose a street.
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The lay of the land
A flat, planned side of town, off the bench Eaglewood sits on
The first thing to understand about Foxboro is why it is flat. The west half of North Salt Lake is old Lake Bonneville lake bed, level in a way the rest of the city is not, and that single fact set the shape of the neighborhood. Where Eaglewood climbs the bench on the east side of town, wrapped around a municipal golf course and pointed at the valley view, Foxboro spreads out on the floor. There is no view to speak of and no trail climbing off the end of the street. In exchange there is level ground that clears of snow before the bench does, and a grid you can actually walk.
It was built as a planned neighborhood in the 2000s, and it shows in the street pattern. The parks were not pushed to the edges the way they are in a lot of subdivisions. They were dropped into the grid at intervals, so that eight or nine of the smaller ones sit within a few streets of each other and very few addresses on this side are more than a short walk from open grass. That is a design decision rather than an accident, and it is the most useful single thing to know about how the west side was laid out.
The homes are a mix rather than a single type. The city describes Foxboro as a west-side community of single-family houses, townhomes and apartments, and on the ground that is what you find: full lots on some streets, attached rows on others, and larger buildings closer to the main roads. Foxboro North was established as its own part of the neighborhood on 27 June 2007, so some streets are a little newer than others, and the seams between them are the kind of thing worth walking before you settle on a block.
The one thing Foxboro does not let you ignore is its western edge. Redwood Road runs down that side, and across it is a working industrial corridor with a refinery inside the city line. It is close enough that odor on a bad-wind day is a real question on some blocks and a non-issue on others, which is exactly why the block matters here more than the neighborhood name. I have written the corridor up properly on the refinery corridor page, with the permit record and who to call on an odor day, so I will not repeat all of it here.
The parks
Eleven parks on one side of one freeway
The park count is the headline of the west side, and almost nobody outside the city counts it. North Salt Lake publishes twenty-eight numbered park and trail sites across the whole city, and eleven of the parks sit in and around Foxboro, plus the Wetlands Trails and the paved path along Redwood Road.
The big one is Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North. It carries the playground and the summer splash pad, it has its own parking, and it doubles as the west side's outdoor events ground through the warmer months. A note on the name, because it trips people up: some maps and the older city write-ups still call this Foxboro North Regional Park, and it is the same park at 1100 North. Legacy Regional Park is the city's own name for it.
Two more are worth naming on their own. Fox Hollow Park at 655 North Fox Hollow Drive is accessible, with parking and a reservable pavilion, and Foxboro South Community Park at 280 North Greenwich Drive is a separate, smaller site about a mile away, easy to confuse with the regional park and not the same place. The rest are neighborhood parks in the ordinary sense, and their value is exactly that there are so many of them so close together.
The neighborhood parks
The wet ground and the trails
A wetland trail, the paved trail, and a boat takeout on the river
West of the houses the ground turns to wetland, the part of the old lake bed that stayed wet. The city marks twenty-three acres of designated wetlands at 515 North Cutler Drive and runs a Wetlands Trail of 8,208 linear feet through it, which is about a mile and a half. There is no ornamental pond at the center of Foxboro, whatever a listing might imply; the water here is this wet ground, and in spring it is loud with birds in a way the streets a hundred yards off are not. It is the one place on the flats where you can see what the land was before the grid arrived.
The paved county trail, the Legacy Parkway Trail, has two of its doors on this side. The Center Street trailhead at 1100 West Center Street is the southernmost signed trailhead on the whole trail, which means everything from there runs north. The other door sits beside Legacy Regional Park at 1100 North and comes with restrooms, water, a playground and the splash pad, so it is the easier one if there are small children in the group. The full trail, its length and its far end are written once for the five cities it passes at the Legacy Parkway Trail page.
There is water of another kind at the western edge, where the Jordan River runs. Porter's Takeout, which the city also calls Porter's Landing Boat Takeout, sits at 50 South Jordan River Drive with parking and restrooms, and it is a real municipal boat facility rather than a viewpoint. It is where the city's September river paddle finishes, coming downstream from a launch inside Salt Lake City. The river itself is Salt Lake County's subject, so the page stops at the bank.
One correction, because it circulates: Eaglewood is not a Legacy trailhead. It is a bench area up and across the freeway, and there is no walking route between the two that does not involve a drive. If the hill is what you are after, that is Eaglewood, and the bench trail doors are at Tunnel Springs Park.
Getting around
No train inside the city, and a short hop to the freeway
The honest transit answer for Foxboro is that there is no train inside North Salt Lake at all. The nearest FrontRunner stop is the Woods Cross station at 750 South 800 West, roughly two miles east in the next city, and it is a genuine walk only from the furthest west blocks. There is no light rail anywhere in Davis County, which catches out people arriving from a Salt Lake County address that had one. On the bus, the route worth knowing is 417, which UTA added in 2025 and which links this corridor to the light rail Green Line over in Salt Lake County. UTA moves its route numbers a couple of times a year, so it is worth a re-check.
What Foxboro does have is the freeway on its eastern edge, so the on-ramp is close and downtown Salt Lake City is a short drive. The distances below are the city's own rough figures, measured from the city center.
| From the city center | Distance | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Woods Cross FrontRunner station | About 2 miles | About 6 minutes |
| Lakeview Hospital, Bountiful | About 3 miles | About 8 minutes |
| Downtown Salt Lake City | About 8 miles | About 10 minutes |
One more thing that shows up when you search Foxboro. The medical-waste incinerator that used to run near the west side stopped burning on 30 June 2022, so a fair amount of older coverage still describes a facility that is no longer operating. The wider corridor across Redwood Road, and how to think about living near it, is on the refinery corridor page.
Quick answers
Foxboro, answered
Foxboro is the flat west side of the city, below the freeway and off the east bench where Eaglewood sits. North Salt Lake describes itself in three parts, the Town Center, Eaglewood on the hill, and Foxboro on the west flats, and the ground here is old Lake Bonneville lake bed, level enough that the street grid could fit a park every few blocks.
That depends on what you want from a street. Foxboro trades the bench view and the climb for flat, walkable ground and a lot of parks, eleven of them on this side of the freeway, plus a wetland trail and a paved county trail door. The honest tradeoff is that it sits near a working industrial corridor across Redwood Road, so the block you choose changes the answer. Look at the place and the streets rather than at a label.
The city describes Foxboro as a community on the west side with single-family homes, townhomes and apartments, so the mix is broader than a single housing type. It was laid out as a planned neighborhood in the 2000s, with Foxboro North established on 27 June 2007, and the streets were built on a grid with parks woven through them rather than pushed to the edges.
Eleven named city parks sit on the west side, plus the Wetlands Trails and the paved path along Redwood Road. The big one is Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North, which carries a playground and a summer splash pad. The rest, including Fox Hollow, Cambria, Stone, Stonehenge, Laurel, Oldham, Boston, Buckingham and Caleb, are smaller neighborhood parks dropped into the street grid, so few west side addresses are far from open grass.
The water on this side is the wetland ground rather than an ornamental pond. The city marks 23 acres of designated wetlands at 515 North Cutler Drive and a Wetlands Trail of 8,208 linear feet, about a mile and a half, running through it. It is old lake bed that stayed wet, quiet and loud with birds in spring, and it is the one place on the west flats where you can see the ground as it was before the streets arrived.
They are the two sides of North Salt Lake and they feel different. Eaglewood is the east bench, up on the hill, built around a city golf course with the long valley view and streets that climb. Foxboro is the flat west side, below the freeway, laid out on a grid with parks and a wetland trail and no climb at all. One trades altitude and a view for the walk uphill, the other trades the view for flat ground and dense parks.
No. There is no commuter rail station anywhere inside North Salt Lake. The nearest FrontRunner stop is the Woods Cross station at 750 South 800 West in the next city, roughly two miles out and a real walk only from the furthest west blocks. There is no light rail anywhere in Davis County, which surprises people arriving from a Salt Lake County address that had one.
There are two city doors onto the paved county trail. The Center Street trailhead at 1100 West Center Street is the southernmost signed trailhead on the whole trail, so everything from there runs north. The other door is beside Legacy Regional Park at 1100 North and carries restrooms, water, a playground and a seasonal splash pad, which makes it the easier one with small children along.
The medical waste incinerator that operated near the west side stopped burning on 30 June 2022, so a good deal of what you will find online still describes a facility that is no longer running. The wider picture of the industrial corridor across Redwood Road, the refinery inside the city line and who to call on an odor day, is written once on the refinery corridor page.
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Foxboro rewards knowing which block you are on: close to a park, close to the corridor, a little newer or a little older. Tell me the streets you are weighing and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who works this side of the freeway, and I will stay on the file for the financing side. There is no cost to you for the introduction.
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