The park Bluffdale
The twenty two acres this city holds its year on
Bluffdale City Park, and the arena at the western end
Roughly twenty two acres at 2400 West 14400 South, carrying four sports fields, a large playground, a pavilion, a permanent stage, four pickleball courts, horseshoe pits and a sand volleyball court. Sharing the same address at its western end is the Bluffdale Equestrian Park, which holds a professional rodeo each summer. Here is what is on the site, how the two ends are used, and why Old West Days comes apart into two separate blocks of the summer.
The short answer
Bluffdale City Park is the roughly twenty two acre park at 2400 West 14400 South, in the middle of the city, and it is the ground almost every civic event in Bluffdale happens on. It carries four sports fields, a large playground, a pavilion, a permanent stage, four pickleball courts, horseshoe pits and a sand volleyball court, and at its western end, sharing the same address, is the Bluffdale Equestrian Park, a working rodeo arena that anchors Old West Days each summer. Two things are worth knowing before you go. Old West Days splits into a rodeo block in mid July and a separate celebration block that ends with a parade in early August, so check which one you want. And 14600 South, the next street north, has been closed for a rail underpass rebuild since November 2025, so plan the approach along 14400 South rather than trusting a route across the middle of town.
The site
One address on 14400 South carrying a public park and an arena
Bluffdale City Park sits at 2400 West 14400 South, roughly twenty two acres in the middle of the city, and it is the ground almost every civic thing in Bluffdale happens on. The published amenities are a central field pair, a north field and a west field, a large playground, a pavilion, a stage, restrooms, basketball, four pickleball courts, horseshoe pits, a sand volleyball court, picnic tables, electricity, pathways and parking.
The Bluffdale Equestrian Park occupies the western end of the same site and carries the same address. It is listed as its own venue on the city's facilities list rather than as a feature of the park, and it is where the professional rodeo happens each summer.
The other address to know is the Parks Department itself, listed a little to the east at 2222 West 14400 South. Two addresses within a few hundred yards on the same street, one for the park and the arena and one for the people who take the bookings, is a small thing that has sent visitors to the wrong end of the road more than once.
Twenty two acres holding a stage, four pickleball courts and a working arena is a farm town's park that a suburb grew around rather than over.
The west end
An equestrian arena that is a survival, not a theme
Bluffdale spent most of its life as a large lot valley where keeping animals on a residential parcel was normal rather than remarkable. The arena at the western end of the city park is what remains of that in public ownership, and it is still used for exactly what it was built for.
For three nights each summer it holds a rodeo sanctioned through the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association. In 2026 that was July 16 to 18. Mutton bustin runs as part of the program, open to children up to sixty pounds, at fifteen dollars an applicant with twenty places a night and registration opening July 1. Those twenty places go quickly, and the weight limit is a firm limit rather than a guideline.
Outside that block, and outside whatever else the city programs into the arena across the season, it is a fenced ring of ground at the end of a municipal park. There is nothing to do at it, and that is not a criticism. A city that has kept a working arena in its central park through fifteen years of fast growth has said something about what it thinks it is, and it has had plenty of chances to pave the thing for parking instead.
The buying side of that history, which is what horse zoning actually permits on a Bluffdale parcel today, is the city guide's subject rather than this page's. The Bluffdale city guide covers the ordinance and what it means for a lot.
The stage is the piece nobody notices until August
A permanent stage in a city park of this size is unusual, and it is what lets a family concert, a youth night, a kids market and a festival all run on one piece of ground across a single week without a tent going up. For most of the year it is a low concrete shape at the edge of a field. For the weeks of Old West Days it is doing most of the work.
Old West Days
In 2026 the celebration happened in two blocks twelve days apart
This is the single most useful thing to know about the Bluffdale calendar, and it caught out people who have been coming for years. Old West Days is one name over two separate stretches of the summer, and in 2026 they did not touch.
| The rodeo block | The celebration block | |
|---|---|---|
| When, in 2026 | July 16 to 18, three nights | July 30 to August 8, ten days |
| Where | The Bluffdale Equestrian Park, 2400 West 14400 South | The city park and other city venues, ending on the park |
| What happens | A Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association sanctioned rodeo, with mutton bustin on the program | Theater, a pickleball tournament, Party in the Park, youth night, a senior dinner, a car show, a kids market, a family concert with fireworks, then the parade and family festival |
| Ticketed or free | Ticketed, and mutton bustin registration ran fifteen dollars an applicant | A mixture, with activity wristbands sold for the festival day |
| Book ahead | Yes, and mutton bustin places opened July 1 with twenty a night | For the theater production and the tournament; the parade and festival are turn up |
| If you can only make one | Come for the rodeo if the arena is the reason you are interested | Come for the closing weekend if a parade and a festival are |
The rodeo has moved month before now and the two blocks do not always fall the same way, so take the current calendar from the city on 801-254-2200 rather than assuming last year's pattern repeats.
Booking a visit around one date and expecting the other is the mistake this city produces. In 2026 the rodeo finished July 18 and the parade did not run until August 8. Someone who arrived for the parade weekend missed the rodeo by three weeks, and someone who came for the rodeo left twelve days before the fireworks. If both matter to you, that is two trips, and if only one does, check which block it sits in before booking anything.
The rest of the system
Nine city park sites, and the biggest park in town belongs to the county
Bluffdale publishes nearly 60 acres of parkland across nine sites plus roughly 16 miles of trails, which is a respectable system for a city of this size. It is also comfortably smaller than the single county park sitting inside the same boundary, and that is worth holding in mind when somebody says the parks here are excellent.
The city's own strongest sites after the main park are Day Ranch Park, almost twenty acres that opened on 12 August 2023 with a combined skate park and pump track, a mountain bike skills course, a bike playground, an all inclusive playground, eight pickleball courts and a dog park; Vintage Park at 14180 South Loumis Parkway, 6.37 acres with a splash pad, two pickleball and two tennis courts and a sand volleyball court; Parry Farms Park, 5.63 acres with four pickleball courts, a basketball court and a sledding hill, its parking lot sitting on the Jordan River Parkway trail; and Independence Park at 15245 South Noell Nelson Drive, with the second city splash pad.
Beyond those the roster runs to Jeff Anderson Memorial Park on Iron Horse Boulevard, Mount Jordan Park on Freedom Point, Phillip Gates Memorial Park on Royal Coachman Drive, Westgate Park on Harmon Day Drive and Plat K Park on Rebellion Court. Several carry bookable pavilions, and all of it runs through the city's reservation system.
The one everybody actually names is not on that list at all. Wardle Fields Regional Park at 14148 South 2700 West is Salt Lake County's, and it is bigger and better equipped than anything the city owns. The ranked list covers it and sets out why the distinction matters when you need somebody to answer the telephone.
The splash pad seasons are the thing to get right in summer, because there are two different schedules operating inside one city. The city's own pads at Vintage Park and Independence Park run Memorial Day to Labor Day from ten in the morning to eight at night. The county pad at Wardle Fields runs the same season but publishes the water as on from noon to eight, Wednesday through Sunday only.
In winter the useful list is short and worth knowing before somebody asks. The hard surfaces at Day Ranch work on any dry cold day, which covers the skate park, the pump track, the bike skills course and the courts. Parry Farms has a sledding hill for as long as the valley floor holds snow. The trail on the eastern edge is open 5am to 11pm every day of the year. Everything else is waiting for May.
Bookings, permits and current hours for anything the city runs go through Bluffdale City Hall on 801-254-2200. Anything at Wardle Fields goes through Salt Lake County instead, on the county reservation system, and no city number will help with it. The trail on the eastern edge is a separate walk again.
Three things worth checking before you book
- Which government owns the park you mean, because two different systems take the bookings.
- Whether the arena has an event on, since parking around 14400 South fills early when it does.
- Which splash pad you are heading for, because the county pad runs Wednesday to Sunday and the city ones run daily.
Getting there
The approach matters more than it did a couple of years ago
14400 South, the street the park is on, is not the one that is closed. The one that is closed is the next street north. 14600 South has been shut between Spring View Parkway and 1010 West since November 2025 while a narrow one way rail underpass is rebuilt as a wider two way one with trails alongside, and as of 2026 the crossing is still closed. The city has estimated the whole project in early 2027, but treat that as an estimate and check the current status before you rely on the street being open.
The practical effect on a trip to the park is that an east to west crossing of the middle of the city is not available where most people would take it. The published detours are north on Redwood Road then east on Bangerter Highway if you are heading for I-15 from the west side, and south on Porter Rockwell Boulevard if you are heading for Redwood Road from the east side. Coming to the park from the eastern half of the city, plan the approach rather than following a GPS route that may not know the closure.
On rodeo nights and on the festival day, add the parking. The lots around the site fill well before the first event, and the surrounding streets absorb the overflow. Arrive earlier than the program suggests, which on a rodeo night means arriving for the gates rather than for the start. Current closure status is on 385-247-0775 or [email protected], and the page on moving here covers what all of this does to an ordinary week.
Scott Buehler
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At 2400 West 14400 South, in the middle of the city, covering roughly twenty two acres. The published amenities are a central field pair, a north field and a west field, a large playground, a pavilion, a permanent stage, restrooms, basketball, four pickleball courts, horseshoe pits, a sand volleyball court, picnic tables, electricity, pathways and parking. The Parks Department itself is listed separately a short distance east at 2222 West 14400 South.
The arena at the western end of Bluffdale City Main Park, sharing the same published address at 2400 West 14400 South but listed as its own venue on the city's facility roster. It holds the professional rodeo that anchors Old West Days each summer, sanctioned through the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association, and it is what remains in public ownership of the large lot animal keeping valley this city used to be.
July 16 to 18, 2026, three nights at the Bluffdale Equestrian Park, 2400 West 14400 South. Mutton bustin runs as part of the program, open to children up to sixty pounds, at fifteen dollars an applicant with twenty places available each night and registration opening July 1. The month has moved before, so take the current dates from the city on 801-254-2200 rather than from last year's listing.
Because the rodeo and the rest of the celebration were programmed as separate blocks. The rodeo ran July 16 to 18 and everything else ran July 30 to August 8, taking in a theater production, a pickleball tournament, Party in the Park, youth night, a senior dinner, a Lions Club car show, a kids market, a family concert with fireworks on August 7, and the parade and family festival on August 8. Twelve days separated the two blocks.
The city publishes nearly 60 acres of parkland across nine park sites, plus roughly 16 miles of trails. The strongest city sites after the main park are Day Ranch Park at almost twenty acres, Vintage Park at 6.37 acres, Parry Farms Park at 5.63 acres and Independence Park. The largest and best equipped park inside the city boundary is not the city's at all: Wardle Fields Regional Park belongs to Salt Lake County.
The city runs two, at Vintage Park on Loumis Parkway and at Independence Park on Noell Nelson Drive, both on a Memorial Day to Labor Day season from 10am to 8pm. Salt Lake County runs a third at Wardle Fields Regional Park on the same season but with the water published as on from noon to 8pm, Wednesday through Sunday only. Two different governments, two different schedules, one city, so check which one you are heading for.
Through the city's own reservation system, with Bluffdale City Hall on 801-254-2200 as the number to start with. Several of the nine city park sites carry bookable pavilions, and Day Ranch Park's central pavilion is listed separately at 15371 South Puma Mountain Way. Anything at Wardle Fields Regional Park is booked through Salt Lake County instead, on the county system, and no city number will be able to help with it.
Walk it, use the courts if you are willing to be cold, and not much else. The park has no splash pad of its own and the arena is dark for most of the year. The better winter answer in this city is Day Ranch Park, where the skate park, the pump track, the bike skills course and the pickleball courts all work on a dry cold day, or Parry Farms, which has a sledding hill for as long as the valley floor holds snow.
Approach along 14400 South from Redwood Road to the east, or from 2700 West to the north, rather than trying to cross the middle of the city. 14600 South has been closed between Spring View Parkway and 1010 West since November 2025 while a rail underpass is rebuilt, and as of 2026 it is still shut. The published detours are north on Redwood Road then east on Bangerter Highway for I-15 from the west side, and south on Porter Rockwell Boulevard for Redwood Road from the east side.
A park with an arena in it tells you what a city used to be
Twenty two acres holding a stage, four pickleball courts and a working rodeo ring is what happens when a farm valley grows into a suburb and decides to keep something. If you are weighing a street near that ground, or anywhere else in this city, send me the addresses and a Salt Lake County partner agent will walk them with you, while I stay on the file for the homework and the financing side.
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