Copper Park Magna
The city's own ground, in a town that borrows everything else
Magna Copper Park, and the record that does not add up.
In a town where the library, the senior centre, the regional park and the shoreline all belong to somebody else, Copper Park is the piece of ground Magna City actually owns. It carries a skate park, a pavilion you book through the city, and a Labor Day car show that reached its 23rd running before the city was two years old. It also carries two published addresses and an acreage that cannot be right. Here is all of it.
Southern Utah is my home turf. Magna is not, so these pages are researched rather than lived: checked against city, county and venue sources, and dated so you can see how fresh they are. For the on-the-ground work here I lean on a Salt Lake County partner agent.
Start here
The one piece of ground this town owns rather than borrows.
Almost everything public in Magna belongs to somebody else. The library and the senior centre are the county's, the regional park is the county's, the shoreline is the state's, the range is a mining company's. Copper Park is the exception: it is the city's own, inside the old street grid a few blocks south of the historic commercial street, and it is where the town puts the things a municipality is expected to provide.
The amenity list the city publishes is long for the site. Restrooms, a reservable pavilion, a playground, a sports field and a skate park on the parks page, and on the city's own facility record a baseball and softball diamond, a basketball court, horseshoes, soccer, a tennis court, volleyball, picnic areas and tables, parking and a fenced area that used to be a dog run. Once a year the whole of it disappears under a car show.
It is a neighbourhood park doing municipal duty rather than a destination, and that is the honest framing. What lifts it above the ordinary is the skate park, which the city announced as an opening rather than a repair, and the Labor Day event, which has been running longer than Magna has been a city and pulls a couple of hundred vehicles onto the grass.
Copper Park in numbers
23rd
the running the Labor Day car show reached in 2025
20 dollars
to enter a vehicle in the show; watching is free
2600 South
the cross street the park sits on, inside the old grid
1
city owned park of any size in the whole town
The published record
Two addresses, one acreage, and a list that does not fit inside it.
This is worth setting out plainly rather than quietly picking a version, because anyone using a satnav or planning around the site will hit it. Magna publishes this park in more than one place and the entries do not line up.
| What one source says | What the other says | |
|---|---|---|
| The address | The city's parks page publishes 8975 South 2600 West | The city's own facility record and its skate park page publish 8975 W 2600 S, and so does the car show organiser |
| Which resolves | Against the Salt Lake Valley grid, 8975 South would sit far outside this town | 8975 West at 2600 South falls inside the old townsite, which is where the park actually is |
| The size | The parks page publishes 1.44 acres | The facility record lists a baseball and softball diamond, a soccer field, a tennis court, a basketball court, a skate park and a dog area |
| Whether both can be true | 1.44 acres is roughly one and a half football pitches of ground in total | That list would not fit inside it. One of the two figures is describing something other than the whole site |
| What to trust | Use the amenity list, which matches what is on the ground | Treat the acreage as a number to verify with the city rather than to plan around |
| Who to ask | Magna City, for pavilion reservations and park rules | Not the county parks line, which covers the regional park and the splash pad instead |
Published records as they appeared on Magna City's parks page, facility record and skate park page, checked 8 August 2026. This is a young city still consolidating records inherited from a century of county administration, so discrepancies of this kind are worth expecting rather than treating as errors of substance.
One of these two figures is almost certainly measuring something narrower than the site. A published acreage on a municipal table can refer to a single parcel rather than to the whole of a park assembled from several, and that is the most likely explanation here. It is not worth more than a sentence for a visitor, and it is worth a telephone call for anyone planning an event, because a pavilion booking and a field booking are different conversations. Magna City is the right first call for both, and the county's parks number will not help with this park.
The skate park
The one thing here aimed squarely at teenagers.
Look at what a small town actually builds and you learn what it thinks it is short of. Magna built a skate park, announced it as open in Copper Park, and it is the only piece of public provision in the whole town pointed at the fourteen to eighteen bracket rather than at small children or at adults with a fitness membership. In a town whose other attractions are a 1916 theatre, a geology overlook and a beach, that is not a small thing.
The city publishes very little about it. There is no opening date on its page, no dimensions, no hours and no posted rules, which means the practical answer for a visitor is daylight and common sense. If you are travelling with a board and want to know whether the facility suits a particular ability, photographs are what exists; ring the city if it matters.
The rest of the park is ordinary and useful: a playground, a pavilion you can book through the city, restrooms, a field, courts and picnic tables. Shade is limited across the site, which is a real consideration on a valley floor afternoon in July, and the fenced area that once served as a dog run is not maintained for that purpose, so do not plan around it. The ranked list places this park honestly against the bigger things around the town.
A town gets judged on its cathedral and lives on its skate park, and this one only recently got the second.
The one big weekend
A car show older than the city it takes place in.
Labor Day weekend is when this park stops being a neighbourhood facility and becomes the largest gathering in the town. The event has been running long enough that it predates Magna's incorporation as a city by more than two decades.
| What is published | What to do about it | |
|---|---|---|
| The event | The Magna Labor Day Car Show and Picnic, which reached its 23rd running on 1 September 2025 | It is an established fixture rather than a new one, and the date sits on the Labor Day weekend rather than on a fixed calendar day |
| Where | Magna Copper Park | The whole park is given over to it, so do not plan an ordinary park visit that day |
| The hours | Nine in the morning to three in the afternoon in 2025 | A daytime event, which makes it combinable with a walk of the historic street the same afternoon |
| Watching | Free to attend | The cheapest way to see a couple of hundred vehicles in one place anywhere in the valley that weekend |
| Showing a car | 20 dollars, with on site registration from eight in the morning | Registration is on the day and on site rather than online, so arrive early if you are entering |
| Who runs it | An organising car club rather than the city | Take the current year's date and details from the club rather than from a municipal calendar |
Event details as published for the 2025 running, checked 8 August 2026. The date moves within the Labor Day weekend from year to year and the organiser publishes it, so confirm the current year before travelling for it.
This is a club event on city ground, which changes who can answer a question about it. The park is Magna City's and the show is an organising club's, so the city can tell you about the ground and the club can tell you about the event, and neither will confidently answer for the other. If you are entering a vehicle, the club is the contact. If you want the pavilion at Copper Park on some other weekend entirely, the city is. That division of labour runs through almost everything in this town and it is the single most useful habit to pick up here.
The other park
Two parks, similar names, opposite sides of the town.
Local directions go wrong here more often than they should, because both parks are commonly shortened in conversation and the names collapse into each other. They are entirely different facilities with different owners, and one of them is more than forty times the size of the other.
| Magna Copper Park | Magna Regional Park | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns it | Magna City | Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation |
| Where | 8975 W 2600 S, inside the old townsite grid | 4042 South 7200 West, on the eastern growth edge of the town |
| How big | Published by the city at 1.44 acres, which does not match its amenity list | 62 acres |
| When it opened | Long established; the city recently announced a skate park in it | November 2021, which makes it newer than the city itself |
| What is distinctive | The skate park, and the Labor Day car show that has run since long before incorporation | An inclusive destination playground and an inclusive destination splash pad, built to a published accessibility standard |
| Who to ring | Magna City, for pavilion bookings and park rules | Salt Lake County parks on 385-468-7275, including for splash pad hours |
Ownership, addresses and sizes as published by Magna City and Salt Lake County, checked 8 August 2026. The county publishes splash pad hours of Fridays from 2pm to 7pm and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 7pm, which are county hours on a county facility and are not set by the city.
The ranked list
The top 7, ranked
Where both parks sit against the street, the theatre, the beach and the overlook.
The ranked listA few blocks north
Magna Main Street
The listed commercial district, the theatre on it and the road rebuilt underneath in 2025.
Main StreetDays out
Weekends in the valley
Outings across the county for the Saturdays a neighbourhood park will not fill.
Read the guideThe bigger picture
A company town that incorporated
Why so little of this town's public ground belongs to the town, and what that means day to day.
Moving hereKeep reading
More of Magna on The Local.
Things to do
The top 7, ranked
A 1916 marquee, a beach with a ranger talk on it, and a hole you can see from space.
Read the guideThe mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine
A pit measured in thousands of feet, and a 6 dollar shuttle that starts nowhere near here.
Read the guideMain Street
Magna Main Street
Thirty eight contributing buildings on 15.33 acres, rebuilt kerb to kerb in 2025.
Read the guideThe state park
Great Salt Lake State Park
Ten dollars a vehicle, two named beaches, and a launch ramp that says shallow.
Read the guideMoving here
A company town that incorporated
A century unincorporated, a township in 2017, and a city hall that is not a city hall.
Read the guideThe companion
Magna, the whole picture
The mine, Main Street, the state park, Copper Park and the address, in one place.
Read the pageQuick answers
Copper Park, answered.
Inside the old townsite grid a few blocks south of the historic commercial street. The address is published two ways round: the city's parks page gives 8975 South 2600 West while its own facility record, its skate park page and the car show organiser all give 8975 W 2600 S. Against the Salt Lake Valley grid the reading that resolves is 8975 West at 2600 South, and that is where the park is.
The city's parks page publishes restrooms, a reservable pavilion, a playground, a sports field and a skate park. Its own facility record adds a baseball and softball diamond, a basketball court, horseshoes, soccer, a tennis court, volleyball, picnic areas and tables, parking and a fenced area that formerly served as a dog run. The fenced area is no longer maintained for that purpose, and shade across the site is limited.
The city publishes 1.44 acres, and that figure sits awkwardly beside an amenity list containing a baseball diamond, a soccer field and tennis courts, which would not fit inside it. The most likely explanation is that the published acreage describes a single parcel rather than the whole assembled site. Treat the amenity list as the reliable guide to what is on the ground and the acreage as a number to confirm with the city.
Yes, in Copper Park, and the city announced it as an opening rather than as a refurbishment. It is the only piece of public provision in the town aimed at teenagers rather than at small children or at adults with a fitness membership. The city publishes no opening date, dimensions, hours or rules for it, so the practical answer is daylight and common sense, and a telephone call to the city if the specification matters to you.
On the Labor Day weekend, and the exact day moves from year to year. The 23rd running took place at Copper Park on 1 September 2025 from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. It is free to attend and 20 dollars to enter a vehicle, with registration on site from eight in the morning rather than online. The event is run by an organising car club, so the current year's date comes from the club rather than from a city calendar.
Magna City. That makes it unusual here, because most of the public facilities in and around this town belong to somebody else: the library and the senior centre are Salt Lake County's, the regional park is the county's, the shoreline park is the state's. Pavilion reservations and park rules go through the city, and the county's parks number will not help with this park even though it will help with the other one.
No, and confusing them is the most common local direction error in this town. Copper Park is the city's, inside the old grid on 2600 South, small, with a skate park and the annual car show. Magna Regional Park is Salt Lake County's, 62 acres at 4042 South 7200 West on the eastern edge of town, opened in November 2021, with an inclusive destination playground and an inclusive destination splash pad. Different owners, different sides of town.
Fridays from two in the afternoon until seven, and Saturdays and Sundays from noon until seven, as the city publishes them. Those are county hours on a county facility, so the number to ring about them is Salt Lake County parks on 385-468-7275 rather than the city. The splash pad and the playground are both published as inclusive destination facilities, which is a specific accessibility standard rather than a general description.
As a destination in its own right, only for the skate park or for the car show weekend. The rest of it is neighbourhood infrastructure, honestly assessed, and it earns its place on this companion because it is the one substantial piece of ground the city itself owns and because the discrepancies in how it is published are worth knowing before you plan around it. It sits a few blocks from the historic street, so it adds ten minutes to a walk you are already making.
One city park, and a lot of other people's facilities.
What this page runs into is true of the whole town: a young city carrying a century of county administration, still working out which desk owns which gate and which version of a record is the live one. That is entirely solvable for a household, and it is much less irritating when somebody has already solved it. Write to me with what you are weighing. A Salt Lake County partner agent handles the local judgement, address by address, and I hold the research and the lending side.
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