Copper Park Magna
Magna's one city park, and how to use it
Magna Copper Park, the skate park, the ballfields and the car show
Copper Park is the one park Magna owns outright, a full block a few streets south of Main Street at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains. It holds the town's skate park, a baseball diamond and courts, a playground and a pavilion you can reserve, and once a year the Labor Day car show that has run longer than Magna has been a city. Here is what is on the ground, what it costs, and how to use it through the year.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Magna Copper Park sits at 8975 W 2600 S, a few blocks south of Main Street, and it is the only park the city itself owns. On one neighborhood block it fits a skate park, a baseball and softball diamond, basketball and tennis courts, a soccer field, sand volleyball and horseshoes, a playground, restrooms, picnic tables and a pavilion you can reserve through the city. It is free, there is a parking lot on site, and shade is thin, so a July afternoon wants a hat and water. The one day it stops being an ordinary neighborhood park is Labor Day weekend, when a couple hundred classic cars fill the grass for the car show. Magna became a city in 2024, and its parks are run day to day by the Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District under the Magna City Council, so reservations and park questions go through the city.
What's there
Everything the park fits onto a single block
Copper Park does a lot with one block. Along one side there is a baseball and softball diamond and a soccer field. Along another there are basketball and tennis courts, a sand volleyball pit and a set of horseshoe pits. In the middle sit a playground, picnic tables, restrooms and a pavilion, and off in one corner is the skate park. That is more sport and more court than most neighborhood parks this size carry, which is the useful thing to know if you are after somewhere to actually play rather than just sit.
What it does not have much of is shade. The trees are young and the ground is open, so on a summer afternoon on the valley floor you feel the sun, and a morning or an evening visit is kinder than midday. There is a parking lot on site, the paths and playground are level, and a fenced corner that once served as a dog run is no longer kept up for that, so plan to keep a dog leashed.
The setting is the west edge of the Salt Lake Valley. The Oquirrh Mountains rise straight behind the town to the south and west, the Great Salt Lake sits a few miles north, and Main Street, with its 1916 Empress Theatre, is a short walk up the grid. The park is a plain, well-used piece of that neighborhood rather than a destination, and pairing it with a walk of the historic street makes the better outing.
The details
The skate park
The town's skate park, and the only one it has
Magna built its skate park in Copper Park, and the town does not have another. In a place whose other draws are a 1916 theater, a mine overlook and a lake beach, a public spot pointed at skaters and scooter riders fills a real gap, and it gets used.
The city keeps it simple. It is open, it is free, and there are no posted hours, so the honest answer is daylight and common sense. If you are traveling with a board and want to know whether the concrete suits a particular level, photographs are what exist online, and a call to Magna City is the way to get more than that.
The rest of the park backs it up: a playground, courts, a field and a pavilion within a few steps, so a family can split up and still be in sight of each other. Magna's ranked things to do sets the park against the bigger draws around the town.
In a town whose landmarks are a theater, a mine and a lake, the newest thing the city built is a place to skate.
The one big weekend
A car show older than the city it runs in
For one weekend a year Copper Park stops being a neighborhood park and turns into the biggest gathering in town. The Magna Labor Day Car Show and Picnic has been running for more than two decades, which makes it older than Magna has been a city.
The 2025 running was the 23rd, held at the park from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon over Labor Day weekend. It is free to walk through and twenty dollars to enter a car, with sign-up on the day at the park rather than online, starting at eight in the morning. Organizers say it pulls two hundred cars and more, which for a free morning is the cheapest way to see that many in one place all weekend.
The date moves within the Labor Day weekend from year to year, and the LuxuriouS Car Club runs it, not the city, so the club is where the current year's date and details come from. The park is Magna's and the show is the club's: the city answers for the ground, the club answers for the event.
The car show, in short
On Labor Day weekend the show takes over the whole park. It is a fine morning if you have come for the cars, and the wrong day to turn up expecting a quiet playground, so plan an ordinary park visit for a different weekend. If you are entering a car, sign up on site from eight in the morning, because there is no online registration.
The other park
Two Magna parks, similar names, opposite sides of town
Newcomers mix these two up constantly, because both get shortened to just the park in conversation. They are different places with different owners, and the county's one is far bigger.
| Magna Copper Park | Magna Regional Park | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns it | Magna City | Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation |
| Where | 8975 W 2600 S, in the old townsite grid | 4042 S 7200 W, on the east side of town |
| How big | A single neighborhood block | About 62 acres |
| What stands out | The skate park and the Labor Day car show | An inclusive destination playground and splash pad |
| Who to call | Magna City, for pavilion bookings and park rules | Salt Lake County parks, 385-468-7275 |
The Regional Park's splash pad runs a seasonal schedule set by the county, so in summer it is generally open on Friday and weekend afternoons. Because it is a county facility and the season changes, call the county parks line for the current hours. Directions to Magna Regional Park
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Copper Park, answered
Magna Copper Park is at 8975 W 2600 S, a few blocks south of Main Street on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains. There is a parking lot on site, and the Great Salt Lake sits a few miles to the north.
It packs a lot onto one block: a skate park, a baseball and softball diamond, basketball and tennis courts, a soccer field, sand volleyball and horseshoes, a playground, picnic tables and a reservable pavilion, plus restrooms. Shade is limited, so a summer visit is easier in the morning or the evening.
Yes. It is in Copper Park and it is the only skate park in town. It is free and open with no posted hours, so daylight and common sense are the rule. No dimensions are posted for it, so photographs are the best way to judge it before you go, or call Magna City.
It runs on the Labor Day weekend each year at Copper Park. The 2025 running was the 23rd, held from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon. It is free to watch and twenty dollars to enter a car, with sign-up on site from eight in the morning. The LuxuriouS Car Club runs it, so confirm the current year's date with the club.
Yes. The park is free to use, and the pavilion can be booked through the city for a gathering. Magna City handles pavilion reservations and park rules, so that is the number to call rather than the county.
Magna City owns it. Magna became a city in 2024, and its parks are run day to day by the Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District under the Magna City Council. Reservations and park questions go through the city, not the county.
No, and it is the most common mix-up in town. Copper Park is the city's small park on 2600 South, with the skate park and the car show. Magna Regional Park is Salt Lake County's, about 62 acres at 4042 S 7200 W on the east side of town, with an inclusive destination playground and splash pad. Different owners, opposite sides of town.
The splash pad at Magna Regional Park runs a seasonal schedule set by Salt Lake County, generally open on summer afternoons Fridays through Sundays. Because it is a county facility and the season changes, call Salt Lake County parks at 385-468-7275 for the current hours.
For a trip of its own, come for the skate park or for the car show weekend. The rest of the year it is a solid neighborhood park rather than a destination, and it sits a short walk from Main Street, so the easy plan is to pair it with the historic street and the Empress Theatre.
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