The hillside park North Salt Lake
The city park at the top of the Eaglepointe bench
Tunnel Springs Park, North Salt Lake's hillside park
Tunnel Springs Park sits at the top of the Eaglepointe streets on North Salt Lake's north bench: a city park with a soccer field, tennis courts, a playground, open grass, a picnic pavilion and restrooms, plus the marked trailhead that carries the Bonneville Shoreline Trail up onto the hill. It is free, it looks out west over the valley, and it is one of four city trailheads on this bench. Here is what is up there, what the trail does from here, and how to plan a visit.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Tunnel Springs Park is a North Salt Lake city park at 1080 Eaglepointe Drive, on the north bench above town. It gives you the everyday park pieces, a soccer field and tennis courts, a playground with swings, open grass, boweries and a reservable pavilion, restrooms and a drinking fountain, and it doubles as the marked trailhead for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail onto the hillside. It is free to use, the bench opens up a long view west over the valley, and it is often listed as a Davis County regional park, which it is not. Plan about twenty minutes for the park alone, or a half day if you carry on up the trail.
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What is here
A well equipped bench park with a valley view thrown in
For an ordinary afternoon, Tunnel Springs covers the bases. There is a soccer field and tennis courts, a playground with swings, open grass and picnic tables, boweries and a reservable pavilion, restrooms, a drinking fountain and dog stations, and a walking path. It is a proper neighborhood park that happens to sit high on the hill, so the view west over the valley comes free with the swings, and on a clear evening that view is the reason to climb up here rather than use a park on the flat.
The pavilion is the one piece you book ahead. It reserves once a day, roughly 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, for up to 80 people, through the city's online reservation system, with a resident and non resident fee and a refundable cleaning deposit. It is a summer product, so a spring or fall gathering plans around the open grass and boweries instead. The park keeps no posted hours, so treat it as a daylight park and do not count on the late times that turn up on some listing sites.
Two things to head off, because people ask. Tunnel Springs is a North Salt Lake city park, not a Davis County park, whatever the county label online suggests, and the amphitheater people picture is at Wild Rose, the next trailhead over, not here. What Tunnel Springs has that Wild Rose does not is the soccer field and the larger 80 person pavilion, so a bigger group belongs up here.
The details
Before you go
- The pavilion is one booking a day, about 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., capped at 80 people, and summer only. Book it through the city and confirm the current fee.
- The amphitheater is at Wild Rose, not here. If a small stage is the plan, go to the next trailhead over.
- There are no posted hours, so make it a daylight visit and ignore the late times some listing sites show.
- Dogs are welcome on leash and there are waste stations, but water runs out past the trailhead, so carry some if you head up.
The trailhead
The shoreline trail from here runs south and east, not north
The Tunnel Springs parking lot is the trailhead North Salt Lake marks for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, which is a rare thing: a foothill trailhead with restrooms and a drinking fountain right at the start. From here the bench trail runs south and east, toward the Salt Lake City foothills and the mouth of North Canyon, and it climbs quickly onto open, dry hillside with the valley falling away behind you. What it does not do is run as a continuous route north into the rest of Davis County. Large stretches of the shoreline trail across the state are still unbuilt, so a gap here is the normal condition of the trail rather than a local shortfall.
If you would rather ride, the same ground is reachable from the Wild Rose trailhead on Sky Crest Lane or from the paved lower trail on Eaglepointe Drive. All of it is worth loading on a map app first, because the bench trails are not signed as a named network and the city posts no official mileage for them. The route lengths that circulate come from local riders, and they are useful precisely because nobody else has measured them. The wider mountain front, where the shoreline trail actually joins up and where the gaps are, is covered on the Davis canyons page. This page stops at the parking lot.
This is open, exposed bench with almost no shade and no water past the trailhead. The trail lengths in circulation are local estimates, not official figures: an easy loop of about 2.5 miles, roughly a mile each way out to a lookout, a moderate line of about 2.5 miles above the canyon to the south, and a longer segment of about 8 miles toward the North Canyon trail. Treat those as a starting point, load the route before you leave the parking lot, carry water, and start early in summer when the hillside bakes.
The four trailheads
Which trailhead you start from shapes the day more than the trail does
North Salt Lake has four city doors onto this bench, all within about two miles of each other and all free. They are not interchangeable. Tunnel Springs has the sports fields and the bigger pavilion, Wild Rose has the amphitheater and a smaller cap, Cynthia Way is a quiet gravel start at the south end, and Springhill Geologic Park is a small lot with a loop trail and interpretive signs.
| Tunnel Springs Park | Wild Rose Trailhead Park | Cynthia Way Trailhead | Springhill Geologic Park | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where | 1080 Eaglepointe Drive, top of the Eaglepointe streets | 650 East Sky Crest Lane, upper east side | 494 South Cynthia Way, south end of the bench | Springhill Drive, north of Eagle Ridge Drive |
| What is there | Restrooms, drinking fountain, playground, swings, tennis, soccer field, boweries, dog stations, parking | Restrooms, water, playground, grills, large boweries, a small amphitheater, a walking trail, parking | Parking, a trailhead and hiking, and little else | A small lot, a loop trail, native seeding and interpretive signs |
| The trail from it | The marked start of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail on the bench | The bench singletrack that riders link toward the canyon to the south | A quiet way onto the bench with no posted route length | The trail system above the old Springhill slide |
| Cost | Free, with the pavilion booked separately in summer | Free, with the pavilion booked separately; no trailhead fee | Free | Free |
| Best for | A group that wants fields, a fountain and restrooms at the trailhead | A rider, a group up to 48, or anyone who wants the amphitheater | Someone who would rather skip a busy Saturday parking lot | A short walk with a bit of geology to read on the signs |
Amenities and capacities as published by the City of North Salt Lake. The bench trails are not signed as a named network and carry no official mileage, so every route length in circulation is a local estimate. Confirm any single amenity you are traveling for before you go.
Quick answers
Tunnel Springs Park, answered
It is a North Salt Lake city park, run and booked by the city, not a Davis County park. It is often listed online as a Davis County regional park, and that label is wrong. The city sets the pavilion reservation window, the fee and the capacity limit.
Tunnel Springs Park is at 1080 Eaglepointe Drive, at the top of the Eaglepointe streets on North Salt Lake's north bench. Use the number without a compass prefix, because the direction is listed inconsistently, and you will reach the right parking lot. It is about 2.5 miles and eight minutes uphill from City Hall on Center Street.
There is a soccer field, tennis courts, a playground with swings, open grass and picnic tables, boweries and a reservable pavilion, restrooms, a drinking fountain and dog stations, plus a walking path and the marked trailhead onto the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. The park sits high on the bench, so it also gives you a long view west over the valley.
No disc golf course is listed among the park's amenities. What the park offers is a soccer field, tennis courts, a playground, open grass, a picnic pavilion and the shoreline trailhead. If a disc golf round is the plan, this is not the spot for it.
Yes. The pavilion books once a day, roughly 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, for up to 80 people, through the city's online reservation system. There is a resident and non resident fee and a refundable cleaning deposit, so confirm the current amount when you book.
No. The small amphitheater people ask about is at Wild Rose Trailhead Park, at 650 East Sky Crest Lane, about two miles away on the same bench. Tunnel Springs has the pavilion, boweries and sports fields, but no amphitheater, so check which park a plan actually needs.
The Tunnel Springs parking lot is the trailhead the city marks for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, with restrooms and parking right there. You can also pick up the singletrack from the Wild Rose trailhead on Sky Crest Lane or from the paved lower trail on Eaglepointe Drive. From here the trail runs south and east along the foothills, not as a continuous route north.
The city posts no official mileage or difficulty grading for the bench trails, so the numbers in circulation come from local riders: an easy loop of about 2.5 miles, roughly a mile each way out to a lookout, a moderate line of about 2.5 miles above the canyon to the south, and a longer segment of about 8 miles toward the North Canyon trail. Treat those as estimates and load the route on a map app before you set out.
Yes, on leash. The park has dog waste stations, and leash rules are set by city ordinance. There is a drinking fountain at the park, but nothing past the trailhead, so carry water for your dog if you head up the exposed bench.
Four trailheads inside ten minutes, and a bench with a view
A bench address in North Salt Lake comes with specifics worth knowing before you buy: which streets sit above which trailhead, how the climb home behaves in a storm, and how the hill sits against the valley view. I am not the local agent up here, but I connect buyers and sellers with a Davis County partner agent who works this bench, and I can stay on the financing side. Tell me which streets you are looking at.
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