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Things to do North Salt Lake

Ranked, from the top of the bench down to the river

The 6 best things to do in North Salt Lake.

A Bonneville Shoreline bench you reach from city streets, a municipal eighteen with its own oversight committee, the county paved trail's southernmost door, a summer splash pad on the west flats, a loop trail laid across a reclaimed hillside, and a boat takeout where the city's river paddle finishes. Six picks, ranked, running from the top of the bench down to the Jordan River, each with an address, a season, a cost and a drive time from City Hall.

On this page The short answer The six at a glance Tunnel Springs Costs and seasons Half day and full day FAQ
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated August 2026

The short answer

If you have one day in North Salt Lake, walk the bench from Tunnel Springs Park for the view, play or practice at the municipal Eaglewood course, and finish with a flat, car-free stretch of the Legacy Parkway Trail from its Center Street door. Those three cover the hill, the city's own signature facility and the west flats. Everything below is ranked by what holds up on the day, and all of it sits inside the city line. The full Legacy corridor to Farmington is its own Davis County page, linked where it comes up, because the whole south end of the county shares it.

Where Six places in North Salt Lake, from the north bench down to the Jordan River on the west flats
From City Hall The farthest is about twelve minutes; most are inside ten
Season Four run year round; the splash pad and the river paddle are warm season
Cost Five are free; the one paid gate is a round at the city golf course
Time needed Half a day for the core, a full day with a bench hike or a round

The six at a glance

  1. 1. Tunnel Springs Park and the bench trails
  2. 2. Eaglewood Golf Course
  3. 3. The Legacy Parkway Trail, south end
  4. 4. Legacy Regional Park and the splash pad
  5. 5. Springhill Geologic Park
  6. 6. Porter's Landing and the Jordan River
Planning sections What each costs and when Getting ready by season A half day and a full day Common questions

Tunnel Springs Park and the bench trails

1080 Eaglepointe Drive Free Year round

The best thing to do in North Salt Lake is on the bench above it, and the city's own map names the door. Tunnel Springs Park sits at the top of the Eaglepointe streets on the north bench, with a car park, public restrooms and the trailhead the city's Parks and Trails Map and Guide lists as its access onto the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. From here, and from the Wild Rose trailhead a couple of miles along the same bench, city-built singletrack runs south and east toward the foothills.

What you get is a bench walk or ride with the whole valley opening up below you, free and reachable most of the year. The trails are largely unsigned and the city publishes no official mileage or grading, so load the network on a mapping app before you set off; the figures that circulate in the riding community run from an easy loop of about 2.5 miles up to a segment near 8 miles out toward the North Canyon trail.

The full account of the four bench access points, the address that two city documents cannot agree on, the small amphitheatre over at Wild Rose, and the connector the city council funded in March 2026 is on the Tunnel Springs Park page. This entry is the short version: park at the top of Eaglepointe, use the restrooms, and walk onto the bench.

The details

WhereTunnel Springs Park at the top of the Eaglepointe streets, on the north bench
From City HallAbout 8 to 12 minutes, uphill onto the bench
SeasonYear round on the lower bench; spring through fall is the easy window
CostFree
Time neededTwo hours for a walk, most of a morning on a bike

Getting there

Climb east off the highway and follow the Eaglepointe streets to their top, where the residential grid runs out at the car park. Two city documents disagree on the street prefix, so ignore the compass point, take 1080 Eaglepointe Drive as your map pin, and expect the lot to be small.

Before you go

  • The trails carry no official signs or mileage, so download the network before you leave the car park.
  • Restrooms are at the park itself; the mid-bench stretches have no water, so bring your own on a long ride.
  • The Wild Rose trailhead a couple of miles along the same bench is the alternative door, with its own small amphitheatre nearby.

Eaglewood Golf Course

1110 East Eaglewood Drive Green fees vary Daily, weather permitting

The one paid stop on this list is the city's own course, and its most unusual feature is who runs it: North Salt Lake owns Eaglewood outright and keeps a citizen committee watching over it, which is a rare way to hold a golf course. As a morning out it plays a hillside eighteen at par 71 with the valley in view, and the honest yardage to work from is around 6,200 as the course itself states it, not the longer numbers the golf databases carry.

You do not have to book a full round to make the trip worthwhile. There is a range with launch monitors, simulators that carry play indoors through winter, a putting green, a pro shop and lessons, so an hour of practice counts as a visit. A remodelled event centre shares the property for weddings and functions, which keeps it busier than a plain nine-to-five course.

Green fees are set by the city and shift from year to year, so ask the pro shop for the current card rather than trust a figure printed anywhere, this page included. The course's own site also says it no longer runs a snow-tubing operation, whatever an older listing may suggest. The fuller account of how the city governs the course and what a bench address commits to sits on the Eaglewood page.

The details

WhereEaglewood Golf Course, 1110 East Eaglewood Drive, up on the east bench
From City HallAbout 5 to 8 minutes east and uphill
SeasonGolf is weather-dependent in winter; the simulators carry the cold months
CostA city-set green fee plus a cart fee; ask for the current card
Time neededHalf a day for a round, an hour to hit the range

Getting there

Take the streets east from City Hall and follow Eaglewood Drive to the top, where the clubhouse, the grill and the event centre sit together with their parking. Book a tee time ahead, and check the range and simulator hours separately, since they run on their own schedule.

Before you go

  • Book a tee time online before you arrive, and confirm the current green fee with the pro shop rather than relying on a number online.
  • In the cold months the simulators are the reliable option; whether the course itself is open turns on the snow that week.
  • The event centre shares the property, so on a weekend the clubhouse may be hosting a wedding alongside the golf.

The Legacy Parkway Trail, from the south end

Center Street Trailhead, 1100 West Center Street Free Year round

The county's long paved trail has its southernmost signed entrance here. The Center Street Trailhead at 1100 West Center Street is where the Legacy Parkway Trail starts in North Salt Lake, running north beside the parkway with no street crossings for roughly 13 miles to Farmington, and continuing about a mile south from Center Street to join the Jordan River Parkway Trail under I-215. That makes it a genuinely car-free ride in either direction, which is a rare thing on the valley floor.

The easier family door is a little north, at Legacy Regional Park, which adds restrooms, water and a playground to the trail access and is the next entry on this list. The mid-corridor trailheads have no water at all, so this is a bring-your-own-bottle ride once you leave the park behind.

UDOT is widening the parkway itself through 2026, building the new lanes in the median; the trail runs outside the travel lanes, but check UDOT's project page before a long ride rather than assuming it is untouched. The whole 13-mile corridor, its trailheads and its place in the Golden Spoke path network are on the county's Legacy Parkway Trail page; this entry is the North Salt Lake end of it.

The details

WhereCenter Street Trailhead, 1100 West Center Street, the trail's southernmost signed door
From City HallAbout 5 minutes west across the flats
SeasonYear round; best on a dry day spring through fall
CostFree
Time neededA there-and-back as long as you want to ride or walk it

Getting there

From City Hall, head west on Center Street to the 1100 West trailhead, where there is off-street parking. For a family ride with facilities, drive on to Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North and start there instead.

Before you go

  • Carry water. Only the park-adjacent trailheads have any, and the mid-corridor doors have none.
  • UDOT is widening the parkway through 2026, so check its project page for any trail notes before a long ride.
  • Several cities along the corridor set their own rules on e-bikes, so check the local rule if that matters to you.

Legacy Regional Park and the splash pad

1140 West 1100 North Free Splash pad Memorial Day to Labor Day

The big park on the west flats is Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North, which the city calls Legacy Regional Park while other sources call it Foxboro North Regional Park. It carries a splash pad, a playground, pavilions, basketball courts and open field, and it doubles as the better of the city's two Legacy Trail doors because it is the one with restrooms and water.

The splash pad runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, roughly ten in the morning to eight at night on weekdays and Saturdays and shorter hours on Sundays, and the city sets those dates rather than the weather, so check before a hot September afternoon. Food trucks turn up on Mondays through the summer, which makes a Monday evening the easy time to bring a crowd.

For the rest of the west side, the eleven named parks, the wetland trail the city measures at 8,208 feet, and the boat takeout on the river, see the Foxboro page. This entry is the one park most visitors actually aim for.

The details

WhereLegacy Regional Park, 1140 West 1100 North, on the west flats
From City HallAbout 6 to 8 minutes northwest
SeasonPark year round; splash pad Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day
CostFree
Time neededAn hour for a walk, an afternoon with the splash pad running

Getting there

Head northwest across the flats to 1100 North and 1140 West, where the park has its own parking. It sits right on the Legacy Parkway Trail, so a bike ride and a splash-pad stop can be the same trip.

Before you go

  • Two names are in circulation for one park; the city's own name is Legacy Regional Park.
  • The splash pad runs on a season the city sets, not on the weather, so confirm the dates before a late-summer visit.
  • This is the trail door with restrooms and water, so it is the one to start from on a longer ride.

Springhill Geologic Park

Springhill Drive, north bench Free Year round

This is the most unusual short walk in the city. Springhill Geologic Park is a loop trail with interpretive plaques laid across a slope on the north bench that shifted over years and that the city bought out and reclaimed with a federal grant in 2012. It reads as a real geology lesson on the ground: about 150 feet of relief, plaques explaining what the bench is made of and why the ground moved, and roughly a half hour for the loop.

Access is off Springhill Drive just north of Eagle Ridge Drive, with a second entrance at 367 East Barry Circle if the first lot is full. The car park is small and easy to drive past, and the approach is ordinary residential street the whole way, which is part of what makes the payoff a surprise.

The full story of the ground, the streets it crossed and how it compares with the bench's other failure surface is on the Springhill Geologic Park page. As a thing to do, treat it as a short, quiet interpretive walk with a view over the valley.

The details

WhereSpringhill Drive on the north bench, just north of Eagle Ridge Drive, with a second entrance at 367 East Barry Circle
From City HallAbout 8 to 10 minutes, up onto the north bench
SeasonYear round; the plaques and the view read best on a clear day
CostFree
Time neededAbout half an hour for the loop, an hour if you read every plaque

Getting there

Climb east onto the north bench and pick up Springhill Drive above Eagle Ridge Drive. The small car park is easy to miss, so the Barry Circle entrance is the alternative if you cannot find it or if the first lot is taken.

Before you go

  • The car park is small and easy to drive past; the Barry Circle entrance is the fallback.
  • The loop is short but the ground is uneven across the reclaimed slope, so wear real shoes.
  • Read it alongside the plaques; the interpretation is the point of the walk rather than the distance.

Porter's Landing and the Jordan River

50 South Jordan River Drive Free Warm season

The Jordan River runs through the far west of the city, and Porter's Landing is the takeout on it: a municipal boat takeout at 50 South Jordan River Drive with about eleven parking stalls, a pavilion and a restroom, completed in 2016 and named for a long-serving city councilman. It sits at the end of the paddling line, just before the river slides into the Legacy Nature Preserve.

Most people reach it by putting in upstream, at Fisher Mansion or the Gadsby trailhead, for a float of three to four hours down to Porter's Landing. The city runs a Get to the River paddle here in late summer, a canoe and kayak trip along a stretch of the river that finishes at this takeout, and it is the most straightforward way to try the water if you have never done it.

The Legacy Nature Preserve below the takeout is a viewing-only wetland managed by the state transportation department, seen from the trail rather than entered. For the boat access, the wetland trail and the west flats generally, the Foxboro page carries the detail.

The details

WherePorter's Landing, 50 South Jordan River Drive, on the far west flats
From City HallAbout 7 to 9 minutes west, roughly two and a half miles
SeasonWarm season for paddling; the city paddle runs in late summer
CostFree to use the takeout; bring or hire your own boat
Time neededThree to four hours for the float from an upstream put-in

Getting there

Head west toward the river and Jordan River Drive; the takeout has its own parking and a restroom. Because it is a takeout rather than a launch, plan a shuttle or a second car at an upstream put-in like Fisher Mansion or Gadsby.

Before you go

  • This is a takeout, not a launch, so put in upstream and float down to it.
  • The city's Get to the River paddle in late summer is the guided way to try the stretch.
  • The Legacy Nature Preserve just downstream is view-only; you take out here rather than continuing into it.

The logistics

What each costs, and when it is open.

Here are the six side by side. The drive times are measured from City Hall on Center Street and are rough estimates from the map rather than routing results, and the costs are planning notes that each operator sets for itself, so confirm the current figure before you go.

The pick Where From City Hall Season Cost
Tunnel Springs and the bench trails1080 Eaglepointe Drive8 to 12 minutesYear roundFree
Eaglewood Golf Course1110 East Eaglewood Drive5 to 8 minutesDaily in season, weather permittingGreen fees vary
Legacy Parkway Trail, south end1100 West Center Street5 minutesYear roundFree
Legacy Regional Park and splash pad1140 West 1100 North6 to 8 minutesSplash pad late May to early SeptemberFree
Springhill Geologic ParkSpringhill Drive, north bench8 to 10 minutesYear roundFree
Porter's Landing on the Jordan River50 South Jordan River Drive7 to 9 minutesWarm season for paddlingFree

Open in every season

The bench trails, the Legacy Parkway Trail, Springhill Geologic Park and the golf simulators all stay reachable through the cold months, so a winter visit still has a full afternoon in it.

Summer only

The splash pad runs late May to early September on the city's schedule, and the Jordan River paddle is a warm-season float, so both belong to a summer trip rather than a winter one.

Call or check ahead

Eaglewood tee times and its rate card, the splash pad dates, and UDOT's parkway project page for any trail notes. Everything else on this list is walk-up.

Preparation

What to know first, by season.

The city splits neatly into a bench and a set of flats, and which half you are on changes the day. Two things decide most trips here: the difference between the hillside and the valley floor, and the seasons that switch the water on and off.

If you come in summer

  • The splash pad and the river paddle are both warm-season, so this is when the west flats come alive
  • Start a bench walk or ride early; the north bench takes full afternoon sun with little shade
  • Carry water for the trail; only the park trailheads have any, and the bench has none
  • Food trucks visit Legacy Regional Park on Mondays through the summer

If you come in winter

The valley floor draws the same cold, hazy inversion the rest of the Salt Lake basin gets. To plan around it:

  • Getting up onto the bench often means climbing above the worst of the haze
  • The golf simulators run year round when the course itself is snowed off
  • Springhill and the paved trail stay open, but shaded stretches hold ice
  • Check the state air quality reading before a long day outdoors on the floor

Bench against flats

Three of the six sit up on the bench and three sit down on the flats, and it is worth grouping the day by which side you are on:

  • Tunnel Springs, Eaglewood and Springhill are all on the east bench, minutes apart
  • The Legacy Trail, Legacy Regional Park and Porter's Landing are all on the west flats
  • The flats clear of snow before the bench does, so pick the flats after a storm
  • You cross the whole city in under fifteen minutes, so mixing the two halves is easy

Getting here and around

North Salt Lake sits right at the Salt Lake County line, so it is a short hop up I-15 or Redwood Road from the city, and Legacy Parkway runs along its west edge. There is no FrontRunner station in town; the nearest is Woods Cross to the north. Everything on this list is a few minutes apart by car, and the two halves of the city, the east bench and the west flats, really do want a vehicle between them rather than a bus.

One trailhead, two doors

The Legacy Parkway Trail and Legacy Regional Park are the same corridor from two entrances. If you want a long, plain ride, start at the Center Street trailhead; if you want restrooms, water and a playground for a shorter family outing, start at the park at 1140 West 1100 North. They connect, so a single trip can be both, and that is the neatest way to spend a west-side afternoon here.

Put it together

A half day, a full day, and a plan with kids.

The city is small enough that you can see the best of it in an afternoon or fill a whole day without repeating yourself. Here are four ways to fit it to the time and the weather you have.

If you have half a day

  • Walk the bench from Tunnel Springs for the view
  • Drop down to Springhill Geologic Park for the loop and the plaques
  • Finish with a coffee back down on the flats
  • All three sit minutes apart on the east side

If you have a full day

  • Morning: a round or a range session at Eaglewood
  • Midday: the bench walk from Tunnel Springs
  • Afternoon: a flat ride on the Legacy Parkway Trail
  • Cross town in under fifteen minutes between them

With kids in summer

  • The splash pad and playground at Legacy Regional Park
  • A short, flat stretch of the paved trail from the same lot
  • Food trucks at the park on a summer Monday evening
  • Keep it all on the west flats to save the driving

On the water

  • Put in upstream at Fisher Mansion or the Gadsby trailhead
  • Float three to four hours down to Porter's Landing
  • Or join the city's Get to the River paddle in late summer
  • Set a shuttle, since the landing is a takeout not a launch

Keep reading

More of North Salt Lake, page by page.

The companion

North Salt Lake, the whole picture

A water fight in 1946, a bench on springs, and a refinery two years older than the town beside it.

Open the companion

The trail door

Tunnel Springs Park

Four ways onto the bench from city streets, and a connector the council funded in March 2026.

Read the guide

The bench

Eaglewood

A municipal par 71 on the hill, a citizen oversight committee, and the rules a bench address signs up to.

Read the guide

The slow one

Springhill Geologic Park

A slope the city bought out and reclaimed in 2012, with a loop trail and plaques on it now.

Read the guide

The west flats

Foxboro

Eleven named parks, a wetland trail measured in feet, two trail doors, a splash pad and a boat takeout.

Read the guide

The sudden one

The Parkway Drive landslide

A hillside that let go in a single morning in 2014, and the chapter of city code it produced.

Read the guide

Moving here

The refinery corridor

Five plants on one seam, four cities, and a state permit that makes all of it checkable.

Read the guide

The corridor

The Legacy Parkway Trail

The full car-free paved route up the west side of the county, its trailheads and the network it joins.

Read the guide

The city guide

North Salt Lake homes and neighborhoods

Prices, neighborhoods, schools and current listings, for anyone weighing a move to North Salt Lake.

Open the city guide

Quick answers

The list, answered.

Walk or ride the Bonneville Shoreline bench from Tunnel Springs Park. The park sits at the top of the Eaglepointe streets on the north bench, and the city's own Parks and Trails Map and Guide names it as the access onto the shoreline trail, with a car park and public restrooms. From here and from the Wild Rose trailhead a couple of miles along the same bench, city-built singletrack runs south and east toward the foothills, with the valley opening up below you. It is free and it works most of the year.

No. North Salt Lake is a separate city, and it is in a different county. It counted 21,907 residents at the 2020 census, it incorporated in 1946, and it is the southernmost city in Davis County, sitting just north of the Salt Lake County line. Salt Lake City is the state capital, in Salt Lake County, to the south. The names are close and the two share a valley, but the addresses, the city hall and the school district are all different, so check which one an address is actually in before you plan around it.

Most of this list. The bench trails at Tunnel Springs, the paved Legacy Parkway Trail from its Center Street door, the splash pad and playground at Legacy Regional Park, the loop walk at Springhill Geologic Park, and the takeout at Porter's Landing on the Jordan River are all free to use. The one paid gate is Eaglewood Golf Course, which is the city's own municipal course. So a full day in North Salt Lake can cost nothing beyond what you spend on lunch.

Yes, at Eaglewood Golf Course, 1110 East Eaglewood Drive on the east bench. It is a public eighteen at par 71 that the city owns and runs as a municipal department, with a standing oversight committee over it. The course's own site gives about 6,224 yards. Alongside the round there is a Trackman practice range, indoor simulators open year round on membership, a putting green, a full pro shop, an academy for lessons and a grill. Winter play depends on the weather and course conditions, so ring ahead in the cold months.

At the Center Street Trailhead, 1100 West Center Street, which is the southernmost signed entrance on the whole trail. From there the paved path runs north beside the parkway with no street crossings for roughly 13 miles to Farmington, and it also continues about a mile south to join the Jordan River Parkway Trail under I-215. The easier family door is a little north at Legacy Regional Park, 1140 West 1100 North, which adds restrooms, water and a playground. UDOT is widening the parkway itself through 2026, so check its project page before a long ride.

A small city park on the north bench with a loop trail and interpretive plaques laid across a slope that moved for years and that the city reclaimed with a federal grant in 2012. It reads as a short, quiet geology walk: about 150 feet of relief, plaques explaining what the bench is made of and why it moved, and roughly a half hour for the loop. Access is off Springhill Drive just north of Eagle Ridge Drive, with a second entrance at 367 East Barry Circle. The car park is small and easy to drive past.

Legacy Regional Park at 1140 West 1100 North is the easy answer, with a splash pad, a playground, pavilions, basketball courts and open field. The splash pad runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, roughly ten to eight on weekdays and Saturdays and shorter on Sundays, and food trucks turn up on Mondays through the summer. Add the flat, car-free Legacy Parkway Trail from the same side of town, and the ducks and open grass on the west flats, for a low-cost afternoon outdoors.

Yes. Porter's Landing at 50 South Jordan River Drive is a municipal boat takeout with about eleven parking stalls, a pavilion and a restroom, completed in 2016. It sits at the end of the paddling line, just before the river enters the Legacy Nature Preserve, so most people put in upstream at Fisher Mansion or the Gadsby trailhead for a float of three to four hours down to it. The city runs a Get to the River paddle here in late summer, a canoe and kayak trip that finishes at this takeout.

Half a day for the core and a full day if you add a bench hike or a round of golf. The Springhill loop is about half an hour, Legacy Regional Park and the splash pad are an easy hour or two, and the Center Street trailhead is a there-and-back as long as you make it. Tunnel Springs and the bench trails are two hours or most of a morning, and a round at Eaglewood is its own half day. The whole list, top of the bench down to the river, is a comfortable full day.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

Six picks on the south door, and a city that reads differently by the block.

A day out shows you the bench and the flats. What it does not settle is which side of that line fits a household, and here that turns on things a ranked list cannot carry: which streets sit above the winter air, what a hillside address commits to, and how the refinery corridor and the two old slides read once you are shopping rather than visiting. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who knows these streets, and stay on the file for the research and the financing side.

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