The west park West Jordan
The big park on the west side, and the all-wheels park inside it
Ron Wood Park, West Jordan, and the Wheels Park inside it
Ron Wood Park is West Jordan's big park on the west side, at 5900 West New Bingham Highway, and its headline draw is the West Jordan Wheels Park: an all-wheels park, with a 20,000 square foot concrete skate park and a paved pump track for bikes and scooters. Around it sit an all-abilities playground, a seasonal splash pad, a five-field baseball complex and courts, with a large city expansion adding lighted turf fields, pavilions and parking.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Ron Wood Park is the largest park on the west side of West Jordan, at 5900 West New Bingham Highway, and the reason to make the drive is the West Jordan Wheels Park: an all-wheels park, opened in October 2024, with a 20,000 square foot concrete skate park and a paved pump track built for bikes and scooters. Alongside it are the all-abilities Sierra Newbold Playground, a splash pad that runs in season, a five-field baseball complex, and basketball, tennis and pickleball courts. The city has been expanding the complex with new multi-use fields, a lighted turf field, more pavilions and more parking, and the city's April 2026 parks update says that work is due in spring 2027, so confirm current access with West Jordan before you plan around the newest pieces. Everything here is free, and the park is a driving destination rather than a walk from a train platform. Directions
What's there
The largest park on this half of the city
Ron Wood Park is the west side's anchor park, named for a West Jordan City police officer, and it packs a lot onto one site. The best known piece is the baseball complex, five fields the city reserves through its own booking system, which is why locals often call the whole place the Ron Wood ball fields. Add basketball, tennis and pickleball courts, picnic pavilions and a snack bar in season, and it works as an ordinary neighborhood park before you get to the two things that make it a destination.
The first of those is the West Jordan Wheels Park, the all-wheels skate and pump-track complex on the east side of the park near the pickleball courts. The second is the Sierra Newbold Playground, an all-abilities playground named for a West Jordan child. All-abilities design means surfacing, transfer points and play elements built so that a child using a wheelchair or a walker gets onto the equipment rather than watching from beside it, and that level of provision is still uncommon in this valley. In season, the splash pad rounds out a family day: the city lists it as open 10 am to 8 pm daily, Memorial Day to Labor Day, and it is the city's only splash pad.
The details
The Wheels Park
An all-wheels park, and the reason to make the drive
The West Jordan Wheels Park opened in October 2024 on the east side of Ron Wood Park, near the pickleball courts, and the city calls it truly one of a kind. A second phase, a dirt bike park, opened on 13 September 2025. A third, a vert ramp the city calls Utah's first public one, has been under construction since July 2026 and is due in spring 2027. It welcomes anything man-powered on wheels: skateboards, bikes, scooters, roller skates and wheelchairs.
Two things sit side by side here. The skate side is a 20,000 square foot concrete park with a 14,000 square foot street plaza of stairs, ledges, handrails and grindable I-beams, a transition bowl that runs from a four-foot shallow end to a six-foot deep end, and a separate roller-skate and multi-use area. The riding side is a paved pump track that runs two loops: a beginner-to-intermediate loop that stays flowy and approachable, and an intermediate-to-advanced loop with steeper berms, jumpable features and crossovers. Together the tracks total close to 20,000 square feet of ride surface, which the city notes is nearly double other local pump tracks.
What makes it worth a drive from outside West Jordan is the combination. Most valley towns have a skate park or a pump track; having both, paved and side by side, on free city ground, is genuinely uncommon here. A first-timer on a balance bike and a teenager on a slopestyle setup can both find their level within a few hundred feet of the same parking lot, and nothing here is gated or ticketed.
The Wheels Park, in short
The expansion
A bigger complex, going in around what is already here
Ron Wood Park is in the middle of a substantial expansion. The city is adding large multi-use fields, a lighted artificial turf field, two more restrooms, two pavilions, expanded walking trails and more parking, plus a municipal well and a pump house tucked into one corner. The turf field is the piece worth watching most: grass fields in this valley sit unusable for a large part of the year, and a lighted synthetic surface takes a field from roughly half a year of play to most of it and adds the hours after dark on top.
The well is the one part of the work that has nothing to do with recreation. Park ground is often the last city-owned land in a built-up area large enough to take a well head, a pump house and maintenance access, and West Jordan, a city of about 33 square miles and 116,961 residents at the 2020 census, needs water capacity that keeps pace. What the corner gives up in grass, the city gains in production that does not lean on somebody else's system.
The honest caveat is timing. The city's April 2026 parks update says the recreation work is due in spring 2027, so treat the newest fields and pavilions as in progress: parking, access and the odd closed area can shift while crews are on site. If you want a settled, finished park day right now, the finished option is Veterans Memorial Park at the river end of the city, and it is worth confirming current access at Ron Wood with West Jordan before a special trip.
Park ground is often the last city land big enough to put a well on, which is why the quietest corner of this one carries a pump house.
The west side
The anchor park on this half of the city
Ron Wood Park matters more than its size, because of where it sits and what is around it.
The historic half of West Jordan is at the river end, and so is most of the city's civic weight: the mill village, the crown-jewel park, city hall, the library, the museum, the recreation center and the rodeo arena. Drive west and the housing gets newer in visible bands, homes built through the last decade or two, until you reach ground subdivided recently. That side of the city has plenty of front doors and few large public places, which is why a park on New Bingham Highway carries more weight than its acreage suggests.
It also sits near the corridor the region has spent years reworking. New Bingham Highway and Old Bingham Highway both run out this way, and the larger road story to the south and west, including the Mountain View Corridor, is covered on the corridor page rather than here, because a park page is the wrong place to keep road plans current.
The west side has been gaining public ground rather than losing it. Sycamore Ridge Park, at the Oquirrh foot, added a free disc golf course, and Ron Wood is doubling down with the Wheels Park and the field expansion. Between them, this half of the city is catching up on the places people actually use. The ranked list of things to do covers the wider set.
The other big one
Veterans Memorial Park
Sixty nine acres at the river end, finished, established, and a rodeo ground for a few days each July.
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The Oquirrh side
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Ron Wood Park, answered
Quite a lot. The headline draw is the West Jordan Wheels Park, an all-wheels park, with a 20,000 square foot concrete skate park and a paved pump track for bikes and scooters. Around it sit the all-abilities Sierra Newbold Playground, a splash pad in season, a five-field baseball complex, and basketball, tennis and pickleball courts. The city has also been expanding the complex with new multi-use fields, a lighted turf field, pavilions and parking.
At 5900 West New Bingham Highway on the west side of West Jordan, several miles from the historic river end of the city. It has its own parking on site. This is a driving destination rather than a rail one: the TRAX Red Line runs out this way, but the park is not within a comfortable walk of a platform.
an all-wheels park, opened in October 2024 and built into the east side of Ron Wood Park near the pickleball courts. It pairs a 20,000 square foot concrete skate park, with a large street plaza and a transition bowl, with a paved pump track that runs two loops, one beginner to intermediate and one intermediate to advanced. Skateboards, bikes, scooters, roller skates and wheelchairs are all welcome, and it is free to use.
Yes. The Wheels Park pump track is paved and built for non-motorized wheels, with a beginner to intermediate loop and a separate intermediate to advanced loop that together total close to 20,000 square feet of ride surface. The beginner loop is flowy and approachable, and the advanced loop adds steeper berms and jumpable features. Bikes and scooters share the skate park, too.
Yes, and it is open 10 am to 8 pm daily, Memorial Day to Labor Day, and it is the city's only splash pad. Check the city before you make a special trip. The rest of the park, the playground, the Wheels Park and the courts, is open year round.
An all-abilities playground at Ron Wood Park named for a West Jordan child. All-abilities design means surfacing, transfer points and play elements built so that a child using a wheelchair or a walker gets onto the equipment rather than watching from beside it. That level of provision is still uncommon in this valley, which makes the playground worth the drive on its own.
Yes. Ron Wood Park is the city's baseball complex, and the fields are reservable through West Jordan's own reservation system. The season, the daily window and the date bookings open all move year to year, and the ongoing work on the rest of the site can affect access, so confirm the current details with the city rather than assuming a normal season.
Yes. The city has been expanding the complex with large multi-use fields, a lighted artificial turf field, two more restrooms, two pavilions, expanded walking trails, more parking, and a municipal well with a pump house in one corner. The city's April 2026 parks update says the new fields, parking and amenities are due in spring 2027, so treat the new fields as in progress and confirm current access with West Jordan before you plan around them.
It depends on what you want. Veterans Memorial Park at the river end is the finished, established one, about sixty-nine acres, with a museum, a rodeo arena and a fitness center. Ron Wood Park is the west side's park, and its draws are the all-wheels park and the all-abilities playground, on a site the city is still expanding. If you skate or ride, Ron Wood is the one. For a settled all-round park day, Veterans Memorial.
The west side is getting the public ground it has been short of
An all-wheels park, an all-abilities playground and a growing field complex are all signs of the same thing: the newest half of West Jordan catching up on the places people actually use. What that means for a specific street depends on how far west it sits and what your household wants nearby. Tell me what you are weighing and I will connect you with a Salt Lake County partner agent who works this half of the valley, and stay on the file for the research and the financing side.
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