The department West Bountiful
West Bountiful's own public golf course, on the flat west side of town
Lakeside Golf Course, West Bountiful's own 114 acres
Lakeside is not a private club that happens to sit in West Bountiful. It is a city department, owned and staffed by the town itself, and at 114 acres it is about 88 percent of all the park land the city holds. Eighteen public holes at par 71 on flat valley ground, opened as nine in 1966, a driving range, and two practice greens that cost nothing. Anyone can play it, and half the residents in the city's own survey say they never do and value it anyway.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Lakeside Golf Course is West Bountiful's own public course, eighteen holes at par 71 on the flat west side of town, and anyone can play it. It is not a private club and there is no membership to join; you call the pro shop, book a tee time and pay a green fee. What surprises people is who runs it. Lakeside is a city department, owned and staffed by West Bountiful itself, and at 114 acres it is about 88 percent of all the park land the city holds. So it is at once a place to play a round and, by a wide margin, the largest piece of open ground in a town of a little over three square miles.
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The course
Eighteen flat holes the city owns, and the reason that matters here
Lakeside plays across flat valley ground on the west side of West Bountiful, which is most of its character in one word. This is not a course cut into a hillside; it is level walking, tree lined fairways, smaller greens and long sightlines out toward the Legacy corridor and the lake beyond it. The course describes eighteen holes at par 71 running a little over 6,000 yards, an honest municipal layout rather than a resort one. If you know the county's other city course, Eaglewood up on the North Salt Lake bench, Lakeside is the opposite proposition: no elevation, no canyon views, just a walkable eighteen on the valley floor.
The part worth understanding early is the ownership. Lakeside is not a private club that happens to sit in West Bountiful, and it is not a county facility. It is a West Bountiful city department, run on the municipal payroll like public works or the police, and the city classes it as its one special use park. A town of a little over three square miles owning and operating its own eighteen hole course is unusual, and it is the single fact that colors everything else about the place, from the way the city counts its parks to the reason a Saturday tee time draws players from well outside the city.
Alongside the course there is a driving range with its own bucket prices and season passes, a pro shop, the Lakeside Grill and Cafe on site, and lessons and clinics from the staff. The origin story fits this city better than most: the published histories say Lakeside opened in 1966 as a nine hole course and that the second nine was added in the early 1990s. That history is the date generally given, so it is worth confirming a date at the pro shop, but the 1966 opening is the number the course puts on its own materials.
The course, in numbers
114
acres, against about 15 acres in all four city parks
1966
the year the course opened, as nine holes
71
par over 18 holes and a little past 6,000 yards
88%
of the city's park land inside one fence
Playing a round
What it costs, how to book, and the two ways to use the place for nothing
Lakeside charges a public green fee, and the shape of the card is the usual one: weekdays cost less than weekends, nine holes cost less than eighteen, seniors and juniors pay a discounted rate, a cart is extra, and punch cards bring the per round price down for regulars. The one figure a West Bountiful household most wants, the resident rate, is not published online at all; the course simply tells residents to ask about special rates. Because a city sets these fees and resets them every season, the honest move is to confirm the current numbers with the pro shop rather than trust any figure you read secondhand. One call to 801-295-1019 settles the green fee, the resident rate and whether it carries across to punch cards and range passes.
Booking is a phone call too. The course publishes no fixed daily hours and no season dates, so an early spring or late fall round is a call ahead rather than an assumption; a northern Utah golf season runs roughly spring into late fall and turns entirely on the weather. Two things at Lakeside genuinely cost nothing and neither is on any rate card: two practice greens and a sand trap the city keeps open to anyone in the community, and the range time the course from time to time gives local scout and community groups at no charge. If all you want is to hit a few putts, that is a free twenty minutes.
The details
Getting there
From City Hall, go north on 800 West to 1200 North, then west to 1100 West; the entrance is on the east side of 1100 West. Coming off the freeway, take exit 317 at 400 North and run west and north through the grid, or drop down 1100 West from the Centerville side. The course sits on the northwest quarter of the city with the Legacy corridor beyond it, which is why the long views open west, out over the flat, rather than up to the mountains.
Before you go
- Call 801-295-1019 for the current green fee and to ask about the West Bountiful resident rate, which is not published online.
- The range keeps its own maintenance schedule, so it opens and closes on different hours than the course on some days; check before you drive over for a bucket.
- Each player is asked to have their own set of clubs, which is worth knowing before two people turn up to share one bag.
- Range season passes expire at the end of October, so the value of one depends on the month you buy it.
The arithmetic
The largest open space in town is a golf course the city does not count as a park
Here is where a golf course turns into a planning fact. West Bountiful holds about 15 acres of actual parks, the 14.5 acre City Park plus three small mini parks, and it holds the 114 acre golf course. Put those together and the course is roughly 88 percent of the city's park land, and about five and a half percent of the whole city's ground, which runs to a little over three square miles. The single largest piece of public open space in West Bountiful is a course you have to pay to play.
The city is candid about what that does to its numbers. Counting only its developed, free parks, West Bountiful works out to about 2.7 acres of park for every thousand residents, and it does not fold the golf course into that figure because the course charges to play. That is the lowest park provision of the four cities it lines itself up against; North Salt Lake, Layton and Woods Cross all sit higher. So the town with the biggest green space in south Davis also reports the least park per resident, and both are true at once, because the big green space is not a park you can walk into.
The city does not dodge the trade either. It says plainly that it has little publicly owned open space, that its one community park is heavily used, and that there are no dedicated soccer fields despite the demand, and it leans on sharing arrangements with the Davis School District and the South Davis Recreation District to make up the gap. Its own survey found about half of residents never play the course, and that many value it as open space regardless of whether they ever swing a club. Both of those positions are honest, and plenty of households hold both at once.
The acreage is stable; almost everything else about this course is the kind of figure that moves. Green fees are set by the city and reset each season, usually before the course opens. The resident rate is not published online, the course lists no fixed daily hours or season dates, the range keeps its own schedule, and the leagues and the named tournaments carry no published dates. Treat any number you find secondhand as the shape of the thing rather than a quote, and confirm the current details on 801-295-1019 before you plan a season around them.
Living with it
What 114 acres of green means for an address on the west side
If you are weighing a home near 1100 West, the useful way to think about Lakeside is as the largest single land use decision this city ever made and then kept. It is roughly a fifth of a square mile of irrigated open ground in the northwest quarter of a town that has almost no other open ground left, it runs on a municipal budget, and it is not going anywhere quietly, because unwinding a city department is a different thing from selling a field. That stability is the real amenity, and it is worth more than any yardage figure.
What it is not is a park. You cannot walk a dog across it, cut through it on foot, or use it as a green route between neighborhoods; the only free access is the practice greens and the sand trap. If your household's use of open space is walking rather than playing, your ground is the loop at City Park, the paved county trail out the west end of town, and the two local trails the city built on a canal bank and an old railway grade. Two of those are genuinely good and almost nobody outside the city knows they exist. The west door page lays out the trail geometry and the Legacy trailheads, and the city park page covers the 15 acres that actually are parks.
One last practical note for a golfing household. The course draws players from outside the city, so a Saturday tee time is a regional competition rather than a neighborhood one; weekday mornings are where the sheet is thinnest. If you are moving here partly for the course, call about the resident rate before you assume it exists in the form you are picturing, and read the page comparing West Bountiful and Bountiful for what else this address gives you and charges you for. When you are ready to line up streets against a budget, I can introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who knows exactly which blocks sit where.
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Lakeside, answered
Public, and municipally owned on top of it. Lakeside takes bookings from anyone and there is no membership to join, so you can call the pro shop, book a tee time and play. It is also owned by the city it sits in: Lakeside is a West Bountiful city department, staffed by the city itself, not a country club and not a county facility. There is no membership requirement to play a round.
Lakeside charges a public green fee, and the card follows the usual shape: weekdays cost less than weekends, nine holes cost less than eighteen, seniors and juniors pay a discounted rate, a cart is extra, and punch cards bring the per round price down for regulars. The city sets the fees and resets them each season, so there is no evergreen dollar figure worth printing. Confirm the current rate with the pro shop at 801-295-1019 before you book.
Call the pro shop at 801-295-1019. The course publishes no fixed daily hours and no season dates, so an early spring or late fall round is worth a call ahead rather than an assumption; a northern Utah golf season runs roughly spring into late fall and turns on the weather. If you are after the driving range instead, check first, because the range keeps its own maintenance schedule and does not always open on the same hours as the course.
The course tells West Bountiful residents to ask about special rates, but it does not publish what those rates are, so a resident rate is a phone call rather than a look up. Ring 801-295-1019 and ask directly, and ask at the same time whether it applies to punch cards and to the driving range passes as well as to single rounds, because those are three different products on the card.
Eighteen holes at par 71, running a little over 6,000 yards across flat valley ground, with tree lined fairways and smaller greens. The course opened in 1966 as nine holes, and the published histories say the second nine was added in the early 1990s, an origin worth confirming at the pro shop since it is the date generally given.
Yes, with its own bucket prices and season passes, and the range passes expire at the end of October. Two practice greens and a sand trap are open free to anyone in the community, which is a genuine free amenity that appears on no rate card. The range keeps its own maintenance schedule, so it does not always open on the same hours as the course; check before you drive over.
Partly. The two practice greens and the sand trap are open free to anyone in the community. What you cannot do is treat the course itself as open space: it is not a park, there is no public right to walk across it, and the city leaves it out of its park count for exactly that reason. If your household wants walking ground rather than playing ground, the city park loop and the local trails are the answer.
The course covers 114 acres, which is about 88 percent of all the park land West Bountiful holds and roughly a twentieth of the city's total ground. For scale, every actual park in the city put together, the 14.5 acre City Park plus three small mini parks, comes to about 15 acres. So a single golf course is by a wide margin the largest piece of public open space in town.
Men's, senior, ladies', and junior leagues run through the week in season, plus junior clinics and lessons from the staff. The named annual events are the Men's Club Championship, a two man scramble run with the state golf group, and the WB Amateur, and none of the three carries a fixed published date, so they are a call to the pro shop rather than a diary entry.
A course the city owns, and the reason its park numbers look the way they do
Lakeside is the most consequential piece of ground in West Bountiful after the refinery, and it is the one nobody writing about this city bothers to mention. If you play, it is a public rate inside your own city with a resident discount you ask about by phone. If you do not, it is the reason a town of three and a bit square miles reports the lowest park provision of the four cities it lines up against, and the reason its walking ground is a loop by the freeway and a trail on an old railway grade. Tell me which of those two households you are, and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who knows which streets sit where.
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