Highland Glen Park, and the water at the middle of it.

At 4800 Knight Avenue on the eastern side of Highland, immediately south of the high school, entered from the Alpine Highway at Park Road. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources carries a second address for the water itself at 10222 Hidden Oak Drive, which is the same pond approached from the other side. On the ground you get the pond, an imported sand beach, sand volleyball, a playground, restrooms, walking trails, a hundred seat pavilion, parking and a trailhead onto the paved county corridor.

Rainbow trout and channel catfish are the stocked species, and bluegill and largemouth bass are also reported in the water. It is on the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources community fisheries list, so the community water rules apply rather than general statewide ones: the daily limit is two fish, a Utah fishing licence is required at the usual ages, and fishing is from the bank. The state does not publish a stocking calendar far ahead for this pond, so any schedule you find on a forum is a rumour rather than a plan.

Two fish a day, which is the community fishery limit rather than the general Utah limit and catches out anyone used to reservoir rules. A Utah fishing licence applies at the usual ages, fishing is from the bank because there is no pier and no boat fishing here, and the water is open for fishing only while the park itself is open, which is eight in the morning to nine at night. Utah resets its fishing rules annually, so read the current state guidebook for the season you are fishing in.

There is an imported sand beach and no lifeguard, so swimming is at your own risk, and the real answer depends on the week. This water sits on the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's recreational monitoring programme under the name Highland Glen Reservoir, with its own published results page. It has carried E. coli advisories in past seasons and a harmful algal bloom warning advisory as recently as October 2025. Samples on 3 June, 9 July and 5 August 2026 were all clean with no advisory active. Check the state page before you go.

Yes. Non-motorized craft are allowed on the water and nothing with an engine is, so paddleboards, kayaks and similar go straight in off the sand beach. There is no hire on site, so whatever floats has to arrive on your car, and the carry from the parking to the water is short. The same water quality caution applies as for swimming: a paddler falls in eventually, so it is worth reading the state monitoring page for the current week before you launch anything.

No entrance fee is advertised at the park, and the parking, the beach, the volleyball court, the playground and the trailhead all cost nothing. What carries a charge is the pavilion, which seats a hundred and is booked through Highland City's own reservation system at twenty dollars for a half day and forty for a full day for residents, and seventy and a hundred for non-residents. A reservation covers the pavilion only; the rest of the park stays open to everybody while it is booked.

Eight in the morning until nine at night, daily, and those are also the hours during which the pond may be fished, because the water is open only while the park is. The pavilion is bookable in half day blocks from eight until two and from three until nine, or as a full day from eight until nine. Highland City's noise ordinance sets quiet hours from ten at night until seven in the morning for residential areas, which is the practical limit on anything held here in the evening.

The paved county corridor runs along the bench and this park's car park is one of Highland's two doors onto it, which is why the lot fills with bicycles at weekends. Highland is the only city on the route with two of its own trailheads; the second is at Mitchell Hollow Park about two and a half miles west. The corridor itself, its full length, the enclosed aqueduct beneath the asphalt, its underpasses and its rules, is shared by seven cities and is written once at valley level rather than here.

It is the deepest single address in Highland for it, with four separate things to do around one pond: bank fishing, a sand beach, a sand volleyball court and a paved corridor for bicycles running straight out of the car park, plus a playground, restrooms and shade under a bookable pavilion. What it does not have is a lifeguard, a hire counter or any food on site, so the water plan needs checking against the state monitoring page and everything else needs to arrive in the car with you.