The parks Enoch
Eight parks, one pickleball court, and a course in four pieces
Old Enoch Heritage Park, and the seven others.
A ball diamond and a snack shack on the ground the settlement occupied before the city existed, plus seven more municipal parks, a dog park, a cemetery and a disc golf course whose baskets are deliberately scattered across four separate sites. All of it free, all of it run from one counter on Midvalley Road.
Start here
One park carries the name of the settlement the city grew out of.
Old Enoch Heritage Park is the one with the ball diamond, and it is the busiest piece of public ground in the city. A pavilion, a playground, restrooms, parking, picnic tables, a baseball and softball diamond and a snack shack, plus disc golf baskets on the same grass. On a summer evening with a youth league game running it is the closest thing this city has to a town square.
The name matters. Old Enoch is the settlement, not the subdivisions, and the heritage park sits on the ground the community occupied before four separate places incorporated together as one city in 1966. Everything else Enoch has built since then has been laid out around growth. This is the piece that was already here.
It is also the practical hub of the disc golf course, because it holds baskets and because it is where most people start a round. If you have half a day in Enoch and only want one address, this is the address.
Enoch's public ground
8
named city parks in seven and a half square miles
4
of them carrying disc golf baskets
1
pickleball court, at Iron Mountain Park
0
charge for any of it
The unusual one
A disc golf course that is deliberately not in one park.
Enoch's course does not sit in a single park the way almost every municipal course does. Its baskets are at four separate city sites: Old Enoch Heritage Park, the Old School Library, Boebert Park and Spanish Trails Park. Playing the whole thing means moving across the city between them, which turns a round into a tour of a place most visitors only ever see from the freeway.
The discs are lent out at the city office at 900 East Midvalley Road, at no charge, during office hours. That is Monday to Thursday from nine until half past four and Friday from nine until one, on 435-586-1119. There is no kiosk, no vending machine and no weekend counter, so a Saturday round means bringing your own set.
It reads like an accident and it is not one. Enoch has no single large park to put a full course in and a lot of small ones scattered through subdivisions built in different decades. Spreading the baskets fits the city that actually exists, and it hands a reason to visit each neighbourhood park to anybody who borrows a disc.
The best free thing in this city is a set of discs you sign out at the front counter of city hall.
Office hours, not park hours. This is the single most common way a visit here goes wrong. The parks are open all day, every day, at no cost. The discs are behind a counter that closes at half past four four days a week and at one on Fridays. Collect them on a weekday morning, or bring your own and treat the baskets as the amenity rather than the rental.
The whole system
Eight parks, and what is actually at each one.
Amenities vary more than people expect between parks a few streets apart, and restrooms in particular are not a given. This is the list as the city publishes it.
| Park | What is there | Disc baskets |
|---|---|---|
| Old Enoch Heritage Park | Pavilion, ball diamond, snack shack, playground, restrooms, picnic tables, parking | Yes |
| Boebert Park | Pavilion, playground, restrooms, picnic tables | Yes |
| Spanish Trails Park | Volleyball court, playground, picnic tables, parking | Yes |
| The Old School Library | The library and the city's interpretive exhibits | Yes |
| Iron Mountain Park | Pickleball court, pavilion, picnic table | No |
| Garden Park | Basketball court, pavilion, playground, picnic tables | No |
| Jones Memorial Park | Pavilion, playground, picnic table | No |
| Cottonwood Park | Playground, picnic tables, parking | No |
| Enoch Recreation Complex | Fields, restrooms, snack shack, parking | No |
The city also runs the Enoch PetSafe Dog Park and the city cemetery through the same office. Amenity lists change as parks are improved, so confirm anything you are relying on at 435-586-1119 rather than from this table.
The one date to know
Reservations open on the first of January, for the whole year.
Pavilion reservations across the city system are first come first served and the book opens on 1 January for the entire year. For a summer Saturday at Old Enoch Heritage Park that is not a formality: the good dates are taken early, by the people who already know the rule. Bookings go through the city office or online through the city's recreation booking site.
A small deposit is taken for bathroom access. Park restrooms are otherwise locked, which surprises people who turn up to a reserved pavilion expecting them open, and it is the single most common complaint about an otherwise generous park system.
There is no booking for the courts. Pickleball at Iron Mountain and volleyball at Spanish Trails run the way single public courts always run, on turn taking, and they fill at the predictable hours: mornings before the wind gets up and evenings once the heat comes off.
The rest of the system
A dog park, a cemetery and a youth sports programme.
The Enoch PetSafe Dog Park sits alongside the parks in the city's own listing rather than below them, which is the right billing for a city where a lot of properties are chosen precisely because there is room to keep animals. It is fenced, it is free and it is genuinely used through the winter, when open valley ground is otherwise a hard sell.
The cemetery is run by the same office, and for a place that grew from 120 people in 1970 to more than seven thousand in 2020 it is one of the few pieces of ground that connects the current city to the settlements that incorporated in 1966. The city keeps its information with the rest of the parks and recreation material.
Youth sports run through the city with a recreation advisory board over them, and the Enoch Recreation Complex is where most of it happens. For a city with no high school of its own inside the limits, the municipal league programme is doing more social work than a parks page usually implies.
Plan around the wind and the sun rather than the temperature. This is open valley ground at roughly 5,500 feet with very little between it and the weather. Spring is the windiest part of the year in Cedar Valley and there is almost no shelter in any of these parks, while in July the sun at this elevation is stronger than the reading on a thermometer suggests. Early and late are the usable windows for most of the year, and in March the wind decides the hour rather than the heat does.
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A pavilion, a baseball and softball diamond, a snack shack, a playground, restrooms, picnic tables and parking, plus disc golf baskets on the same ground. It is the busiest public space in the city and the natural starting point for a disc golf round. The name refers to Old Enoch, the settlement that existed before four separate communities incorporated together as one city in 1966, rather than being decorative.
At four separate city sites rather than in one park: Old Enoch Heritage Park, the Old School Library, Boebert Park and Spanish Trails Park. Playing the full course means driving between them, which is unusual and is a deliberate fit to a city that has many small parks rather than one large one. The discs are lent out free at the city office at 900 East Midvalley Road during office hours.
Through the city office at 900 East Midvalley Road or online through the city's booking site, on a first come first served basis, with the book opening on 1 January each year for the whole year. A small deposit is taken for bathroom access, because park restrooms are otherwise locked. Summer Saturdays at Old Enoch Heritage Park are the dates that go earliest, so the January opening is worth diarising.
Old Enoch Heritage Park, Boebert Park and the Enoch Recreation Complex carry restrooms in the city's published list, and they are generally locked unless a reservation has been made and the deposit paid. The smaller neighbourhood parks do not have them. Because amenity lists change as parks are improved, confirm anything you are relying on with the city office on 435-586-1119 before planning around it.
Yes, the Enoch PetSafe Dog Park, which the city lists alongside its parks rather than as an afterthought. It is fenced, it is free and it gets used through the winter. Bring water for the animal and for yourself, because Cedar Valley is dry, the elevation is about 5,500 feet and nothing at the park is plumbed. Confirm the current rules with the city office rather than assuming, since a municipal dog park sets its own.
At Iron Mountain Park, which has the city's pickleball court alongside a pavilion and a picnic table. It is a single public court and it takes no booking, so it runs on turn taking and fills at the predictable hours, mornings before the wind and evenings once the heat comes off. Spanish Trails Park has a volleyball court that gets mentioned far less often and is a real option for a group.
Yes. Every city park is free to use at any hour of daylight, and the disc golf discs are lent out at no charge as well. The only money involved anywhere in the system is the small deposit taken when you reserve a pavilion and want the bathrooms unlocked. For a city of about eight thousand people that is an unusually generous set of public amenities.
Monday to Thursday from nine in the morning until half past four, and Friday from nine until one. The office is at 900 East Midvalley Road and the number is 435-586-1119. Those hours matter more than they sound, because the disc rental, the pavilion reservations, the bathroom deposit and the Johnson's Fort material all run through that same counter and none of it is available at the weekend.
Yes. The city runs youth sports with a recreation advisory board over them, and the Enoch Recreation Complex is where most of the field sport happens. In a city with no secondary school inside its own limits, that municipal league programme carries more of the community's social life than a parks listing suggests, and it is one of the reasons the ball diamond at the heritage park is the busiest ground in town on a summer evening.
The parks are the easy part. The ground under them is not.
Eight parks, a free course and a counter that closes at one on Friday is the pleasant version of Enoch. The version that decides a purchase is which utility serves the parcel, what the geologic hazard mapping says about that piece of the valley, and how the street drains. I would rather work through those with you before an offer.