City Taylorsville, Salt Lake County
In the middle of the Salt Lake Valley, a city only since 1996
Taylorsville, Utah, the city in the middle of the valley
Taylorsville is a city of about 58,700 people in the geographic center of the Salt Lake Valley, farmed since 1848 but a city only since 1996. Worth knowing up front: the biggest draws inside its 10.85 square miles, the theater, the big county park with the pool, and the college arena, are run by the county and the college rather than the city itself. This hub is the map to the seven Local pages on the town, plus where the wider valley's bigger draws actually sit.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Taylorsville is a mid valley city of about 58,700 people, sitting in the geographic center of Salt Lake County roughly nine miles southwest of downtown Salt Lake City. Farmers crossed the Jordan River and settled here in 1848, but the ground stayed unincorporated county land until residents voted to become a city in 1995 and Taylorsville was formally created on July 1, 1996. The thing to understand before you visit or move is that the marquee places, the county theater, the ninety acre park with the pool and library, and the 5,000 seat college arena, belong to Salt Lake County and Salt Lake Community College, not to the city. That is not a knock on the place. It means a small, flat, central city sits inside easy reach of amenities far bigger than a town this size would build on its own, and the seven pages below cover what is genuinely here.
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The city itself
A young city on old ground, where the biggest places answer to the county
People were farming this stretch of the Salt Lake Valley from 1848, which makes the settlement older than a lot of Utah courthouse towns. The city is the young part. Taylorsville and its southern neighbor Bennion stayed unincorporated Salt Lake County ground for almost a century and a half, until a 1995 vote carried incorporation with better than seventy percent and the City of Taylorsville was formally created on July 1, 1996. It turned thirty in 2026. That long run as county land is the single most useful thing to understand about the place.
It is why so much of what you would drive here for belongs to something bigger than the city. The 400 seat theater is the county's Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, opened in 2021. The roughly ninety acre Valley Regional Park, with its pool and county library, is the county's too, and the 5,000 seat arena sits on the campus of Salt Lake Community College. The city's own name is on the smaller things: a fishing pond, a 1906 farmhouse museum, a skate park, and the June festival. For a mover, the upside is real. A flat, central, modestly priced city sits inside easy reach of places a town of about 58,000 would never build for itself.
The Jordan River draws the eastern boundary and carries the 45 mile Jordan River Parkway trail, and Interstate 215 runs straight through the middle rather than skirting the edge, which is unusual for a valley city. The money side of a move, what a budget buys, how the older Bennion streets in the south differ from the newer blocks up north, and which schools an address is zoned for, lives on the Taylorsville city guide rather than here.
It is a flat, central, ten and a half square mile city that borrows its biggest rooms from the county and the college. Once you see that, the rest of Taylorsville makes sense.
The year here
One big free weekend in June, and a calendar that otherwise runs indoors
The year here has one clear peak, and it lands in the last week of June. Taylorsville Dayzz takes over Valley Regional Park for three days with a parade, a car show, a carnival, food booths, concerts, a 5K and a fireworks finale, and it costs nothing to get in. 2026 was its thirtieth year, run alongside the city's own thirtieth birthday. The Taylorsville Dayzz page has the dates, the layout and where to park.
The rest of the year splits cleanly between outdoors and indoors. The disc golf course, the softball fields, the riverside trail and the confluence open space all run on daylight and weather. The theater, the arena, the county library and the recreation center run year round, and they are the reason this city has more going on in February than most suburbs its size. The arena on the college campus has hosted state high school basketball rounds in late winter.
The one place to plan around is the museum. The Taylorsville-Bennion Heritage Center keeps short hours, only a few days a week, so it is the spot where turning up on the wrong day, rather than the wrong hour, is what trips people up. The ranked list of things to do sorts all seven stops by whether they need planning or just turning up.
The real test of a city like this is a wet Tuesday in February, and Taylorsville passes it, because the county and the college keep the lights on indoors.
The wider valley
Everything big in the valley is close, and almost none of it is inside the city line
Sitting at the center of the valley means the county's bigger draws are all a short drive away. Downtown Salt Lake City is about nine miles northeast, and the airport about fourteen miles by way of I-215. The Cottonwood canyons, the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, and the big arena and amphitheater in West Valley City are close too, most of them inside about twenty minutes, with the canyon resorts about half an hour up the road. The Local writes those shared subjects once, for the whole county, so the four cards here are the doors to them.
The long line
The Jordan River Parkway
The full 45 mile route along the river, with the paddling rules and the towns it strings together.
Read the guide
Half an hour east
The Cottonwood canyons
Two roads, four resorts and a protected watershed, from a city with no canyon of its own.
Read the guide
Saturdays
Weekends in the valley
County wide outings sorted by what they cost, for the weekends one small city cannot fill on its own.
Read the guide
The cold months
The valley in winter
What the season does on this valley floor, and what it takes away from an ordinary week.
Read the guideA lot of what gets called Taylorsville is really its neighbors. The Olympic ice is in Kearns. The big arena and the amphitheater are in West Valley City. The shopping strip most people name is in Murray, across the river. All three are inside about twenty minutes, and none of them is inside the city line, so a listing or a review that files them under Taylorsville has quietly changed the drive, the address and the city hall you would be dealing with. Check which city a place actually sits in before you count it as local.
If you only have one day
One good day in Taylorsville
Early
Start where the creek arrives
The open space at the southeast corner, where Little Cottonwood Creek finishes a run of close to 28 miles out of the high Wasatch and joins the Jordan River.
The river page
Late morning
Cross to the ninety acre park
Eighteen disc golf baskets, outdoor hoops, the largest outdoor pool the county runs, and a library, all on one site.
The park page
Afternoon
The 1906 farmhouse, if it is open
A dairy farm's last couple of acres, a replica schoolhouse and a room of local history, open just a few days a week.
The ranked list
Evening
Finish on the corridor
The county theater on Taylorsville Boulevard, and the college campus loop that carries its own state highway number.
The corridorThe Taylorsville companion
Seven pages on Taylorsville, and four of the places in them answer to the county
Everything The Local has written about Taylorsville: the ranked list of what is genuinely worth your time, the Jordan River trail read as one system, the ninety acre county park with four operations on it, the free June festival, the story behind Redwood Road and the college loop, and what a mid valley address is actually like to live at. Each is its own page, and this is the map to all seven.
Quick answers
Taylorsville, answered
Taylorsville sits in the geographic middle of the Salt Lake Valley, about nine miles southwest of downtown Salt Lake City and roughly fourteen miles from the airport by way of Interstate 215. The Jordan River runs down its eastern edge and Bangerter Highway runs along the west. It covers 10.85 square miles at about 4,295 feet, and I-215 crosses right through it rather than skirting past.
About 58,700 people live here, and 60,448 did at the 2020 census, on 10.85 square miles. Farmers settled this ground in 1848, but Taylorsville and its neighbor Bennion stayed unincorporated Salt Lake County land for almost a century and a half. Residents voted to incorporate in 1995, and the city was formally created on July 1, 1996, which makes it one of Utah's youngest cities on some of its oldest farmed ground.
Three things, in the order people travel for them. The county's Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, a 400 seat theater with a smaller black box beside it. Taylorsville Dayzz, the free three day festival every late June. And the main campus of Salt Lake Community College, which brings a 5,000 seat arena. The catch worth knowing up front is that all three are run by the county or the college, not by the city.
Most of the list. Every city and county park is free to walk into, including the roughly ninety acre Valley Regional Park with its free 18 hole disc golf course, and the open space where Little Cottonwood Creek meets the Jordan River. The riverside trail is free and open long hours. Taylorsville Dayzz costs nothing to get into. What you pay for is a theater ticket, a swim at the county pool, a pavilion booking, or a dog park permit.
It runs along the whole eastern edge of the city rather than through the middle. That riverbank is part of the Jordan River Parkway, a paved trail that runs about 45 miles along the Jordan River, and Taylorsville has four public access points onto it. At the southeast corner, Little Cottonwood Creek finishes a run of close to 28 miles from the high Wasatch and joins the river at a small county open space.
Yes, the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center at 2525 Taylorsville Boulevard, which the county opened in 2021. It holds a 400 seat main stage and a 200 seat studio theater. It is also one of only three ArtTix box offices in Salt Lake County, alongside the Capitol Theatre and the Eccles Theater downtown, so you can buy a ticket for any county venue at a window out here in the suburbs.
Getting in is free, and always has been. There is no admission charge across the three days in late June, and that includes the main stage concerts. You will spend money on carnival ride tickets, food, and whatever the vendors are selling, but budget it as a day out with no gate fee. Check the current year's dates before you go, since they shift a little each June.
The main option is bus rapid transit. UTA's Midvalley Express, Route 50X, opened on April 12, 2026 and runs from West Valley Central to Murray Central, stopping at the Salt Lake Community College campus on the way, and it is fare free through April 2029. There is no rail station inside the city, but the line drops you onto TRAX and FrontRunner at Murray and onto the Green Line at West Valley.
Comfortably. The whole city is only 10.85 square miles, so you can cross it in well under fifteen minutes, and a single day holds the river confluence, the ninety acre county park, the 1906 farmhouse museum and an evening at the county theater with room to spare. The two things one day cannot always give you are Taylorsville Dayzz, which is late June only, and the heritage museum, which opens just a few days a week.
Thinking about Taylorsville? Send me the streets and I will point you to the right local agent
Taylorsville reads differently street to street: the river and its open ground on the east edge, the college and its highway loop through the middle, the older Bennion streets in the south, and the newer blocks up north, with I-215 cutting across all of it. Tell me the streets you are looking at and I will connect you with a Salt Lake County partner agent who works the mid valley, then stay on for the numbers and the lending side.
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