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A county park with a pool, a library and a rec center on one site
Valley Regional Park in Taylorsville, a pool, a library and free disc golf on one site
Valley Regional Park is Salt Lake County's busiest patch of ground in Taylorsville, about 90 acres off 2700 West, and the useful thing about it is not the lawn. An outdoor pool, a public library and a fitness and recreation center all sit on the same site, next to a free 18 hole disc golf course, a four field softball complex and a covered pavilion you can reserve. Here is what is on it, who runs each piece, and the three days each June when the whole park turns into a festival.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Valley Regional Park packs a lot onto one site off 2700 West in Taylorsville. On roughly 90 acres of Salt Lake County land you get an outdoor pool, a Salt Lake County Library branch and the Taylorsville Fitness and Recreation Center, plus a free 18 hole disc golf course, a four field softball complex, sand volleyball, horseshoes, an exercise track, a playground and a covered pavilion you can reserve. The park and its outdoor sports are free and open year round. The pool, the pavilion and the recreation center each cost money and keep their own hours, so the one thing to sort out before you go is which piece you are coming for. And for three days in late June the whole park becomes the Taylorsville Dayzz festival ground.
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The site
One park, four sets of hours
This is the appeal of the place and also its one wrinkle. Everything here belongs to Salt Lake County, and the formal name is the Gary C. Swensen Valley Regional Park, but a county park, a county library, a county recreation center and a seasonal outdoor pool are four different things with four different calendars. Only the open park is available whenever the gate is, so it is worth knowing which piece you are coming for before you drive over.
| What | Where and when | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| The park itself | 5100 South 2700 West, open year round | Free to enter. Disc golf, softball, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, an exercise track, a playground and wide grass fields, none of them ticketed |
| The recreation center | Taylorsville Fitness and Recreation Center, 4948 South 2700 West, 385-468-1732 | A full county gym on the same ground, with its own passes and hours rather than park rules. A climbing wall, indoor courts and classes inside |
| The library | On the park site, on Salt Lake County Library hours | A county branch, free to walk into, with a county library card. The basketball hoops are near its parking lot |
| The outdoor pool | Next to the rec center, seasonal, information year round on 385-468-1732 | The largest outdoor pool the county runs. Usually open from about mid May to mid August; the information line is answered all year |
| The pavilion | Covered, seats about 130, reservable through the county | Booked through Salt Lake County for a fee, roughly May through September. On a summer weekend it is usually spoken for |
| The disc golf course | 18 holes behind the rec center, discs to rent at the office | Free to play and flat. Busy enough that a picnic in the middle of a fairway is a real hazard |
Some listings for this park show tennis courts. There are none here. The county amenity list for Valley Regional Park has no tennis, and there are no courts on the ground. If you have come with a racquet, tennis in Taylorsville is at Southridge Park in the southwest of the city and at Millrace Park by the river.
Disc golf
Eighteen free holes on flat ground, with discs to rent
The disc golf course is the best value thing on this whole site, and almost nothing written about the city mentions it. Eighteen holes laid out across open county parkland behind the recreation center, free to play, with discs you can rent from the park office if you have arrived without any. No booking, no green fee, no membership. A couple of hours and a borrowed set of discs is the whole cost, which puts it well ahead of most ways to spend a Saturday morning in this valley.
The ground is the reason it suits beginners. This is flat, mown grass at about 4,300 feet with little in the way of hazard beyond the trees and the other people on the lawn, so a first round is a pleasant walk rather than a hunt for discs lost in the undergrowth. It is easy to read, too: you can see most of where you are going, which is not true of the wooded courses further up the east side of the valley. The course dates to 2002, has been redesigned since, and plays a par 54.
The one warning is social rather than technical. The fairways run across open parkland that people also use for picnics, sunbathing and dog walking, and they are not marked out on the grass in any obvious way. If you are spreading a blanket on a wide open stretch of the park at the weekend, look for the baskets first. The top seven things to do in Taylorsville puts this park second of seven for exactly this kind of reason.
Eighteen free baskets with discs to rent on site is the cheapest couple of hours in the city, and hardly anyone writing about the place has noticed.
Late June
For three days a year, this is a festival, not a park
The one thing that will upend a visit here is arriving in the last week of June without knowing what is on. For three days the whole site becomes the Taylorsville Dayzz festival ground, and everything below changes at once.
| An ordinary week | Festival week in late June | |
|---|---|---|
| What the ground is | A county regional park with sports on it | A festival site with a parade, a carnival, a petting zoo, food booths, a mainstage and fireworks |
| Getting in | Free, with parking around the site | Free admission, but parking around the park fills early on parade morning and fireworks night |
| The disc golf course | Open, free and quiet on a weekday morning | Taken over by the event. Plan a different course or a different day |
| The softball complex | Fenced, four fields, high school and league play | Part of a three day event footprint rather than a fixture list |
| The pool and the library | Their own hours, on their own spots in the park | Still open, but reaching them means crossing an event rather than a lawn |
| Who runs it | Salt Lake County parks staff | A volunteer festival committee |
In 2026 the festival ran on 25, 26 and 27 June. The dates move a little each year, so check the current ones before planning any visit to the park in the last two weeks of June.
The festival is what most people picture when they hear the park's name, and it is only three days. The other three hundred and sixty two, this is a quiet regional park with a pool, a library, a recreation center and eighteen disc golf holes on it, and that ordinary version is the one worth planning around. If the festival is what you are after, the dates, the parade and the parking sit on the Taylorsville Dayzz page, not here.
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The park, answered
About 90 acres. Salt Lake County owns and runs it as a Class One regional park, at 5100 South 2700 West in Taylorsville. It is the busiest park in the city, with an outdoor pool, a library, a recreation center and eighteen disc golf holes all on the one site.
Yes. There is a free 18 hole course laid out across the open ground behind the recreation center, and you can rent discs from the park office if you turn up without any. It is flat and easy to read, which makes it a good first course, and it is the cheapest couple of hours in the city. The one thing to watch is that the fairways cross open lawn used for picnics and dog walking, so look for the baskets before you settle on a blanket.
Yes. The Taylorsville Library sits on the park site and is a Salt Lake County Library branch, so it keeps county hours and takes a county library card. The outdoor basketball hoops are near the library parking lot, which makes a handy landmark. Check current hours with the county library before you go.
Yes. There is an outdoor pool on the site, next to the Taylorsville Fitness and Recreation Center at 4948 South 2700 West, and it is the largest outdoor pool Salt Lake County runs. The water is seasonal, usually open from about mid May to mid August, but the pool information line, 385-468-1732, is answered year round, so call it before you plan a swim.
No. Some third party listings show tennis here, but the county amenity list for the park does not, and there are no courts on the ground. Tennis in Taylorsville is at Southridge Park in the southwest of the city and at Millrace Park by the river.
Yes, through Salt Lake County. The covered pavilion seats about 130 at twelve wooden tables, and it can be reserved through the warm months, roughly May through September, for a fee the county sets. On a summer weekend it is usually spoken for, so book well ahead. The park itself is free, so an unbooked gathering on the grass is fine if you do not need the shade.
A fenced four field softball complex used for high school and league play, an outdoor basketball area, a sand volleyball court, horseshoe pits, an exercise track, an 18 hole disc golf course and wide grass fields. There is a playground for younger children and a covered pavilion you can reserve. There is no tennis on this site, whatever some listings say.
The park is, and so is the disc golf. What costs money is the pool, a pavilion reservation, disc rental and whatever the recreation center charges for its own gym and classes. So the open ground and the outdoor sports cost nothing, and the buildings on the site each set their own prices. The library, as a county branch, is free to walk into.
Here, at Valley Regional Park, for three days in late June. In 2026 it ran on 25, 26 and 27 June with a parade, a petting zoo, carnival rides, food booths, concerts, a 5K and a fireworks finale, and admission was free. For those three days the disc golf course, the softball complex and most of the open ground become the festival footprint rather than a park, and parking around the site fills early on parade morning and fireworks night.
A park with a library, a pool and a rec center standing inside it
Not many suburban addresses put a swim, a library card and eighteen free disc golf holes inside one short walk, and for three days each June the same ground turns into a carnival. A block either way changes how a Taylorsville street feels day to day. Tell me which streets you are weighing and a Salt Lake County partner agent I trust will walk you through how this corridor lives hour by hour, with the numbers and the lending side left to me.
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