The three parks Harrisville
Three parks, three walking tracks and the only distance this city puts a number to
The parks and the pond, and the one measurement Harrisville publishes.
Harrisville City publishes three parks and a walking track in each of them, which in a city with no canyon, no bench, no trail system and no river is the whole of its outdoor recreation. The main park at 1350 North Highway 89 carries a bowery only residents can book, a disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts with a net season, a stocked fishing pond and a splash pad that has been closed since 8 June 2026. The one hard number in all of it is a lap distance on a sheet the city uploaded in January 2025, and the sheet's own arithmetic does not quite add up.
My licence and my daily work sit at the far south end of the state, three hundred miles from this valley, so these pages are researched rather than lived. Everything on them was taken where it is issued: Harrisville City's own history, parks, utilities, events, directory and general plan pages; the city council minutes of 9 June 2020 posted on the Utah Public Notice Website; the Utah Division of Water Rights public water supplier record; the Utah Geospatial Resource Center for municipal boundaries, the Weber County assessor's roll, the national hydrography layer, the state road centerline and the state board of education school layer; the federal elevation point service; the North View Fire District; the transit authority's own schedules; the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and its boundary geometry; and the operators that publish their own addresses. Every figure carries the day it was read. A Weber and Morgan partner agent takes the ground level work.
The short answer
Harrisville City publishes three parks and puts a walking track in every one of them, which is the whole of its outdoor recreation product and is more unusual than it sounds. The main one is Harrisville Park, also called Harrisville Main Park by the city's own venue entry, at 1350 North Highway 89, and the city lists a bowery, a disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts, a fishing pond and a splash pad on it. The splash pad has been closed since a city notice dated 8 June 2026 and no reopening had been posted by 21 August 2026. Nothing here has a published price. The one hard number the city puts on any of it is a lap distance, and it lives on a PDF nothing links to. Checked 21 August 2026.
The live question
Is the splash pad open, and how long is the lap really?
The splash pad is closed, and the city says so twice on its own site while also advertising it as open on a third page. The notice dated 8 June 2026 reads that park maintenance regrets to inform you the Harrisville Splash Pad is closed until further notice, and that there has been an unforeseen mechanical issue which requires time to repair. A separate notice dated 12 August 2025 had already said the splash pad was currently closed and that staff were working to rectify the issue. Meanwhile the Parks and Recreation page still prints a 2026 schedule of Memorial Day to Labor Day, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ten in the morning until eight at night. Both are the city. The dated notice is the one to follow, and as of 21 August 2026 no reopening had been posted.
The lap is the better question because the answer is a genuinely useful number and almost nobody has it. Harrisville City uploaded a walking track sheet in January 2025, headed for Independence Park, giving the distance for one time around the circle portion of the track as 860 metres, 0.68 kilometres, 2,821 feet, 940 yards and 0.53 miles. Four of those five agree with each other. The kilometre figure does not: 860 metres is 0.86 of a kilometre, not 0.68. So the sheet contains an arithmetic slip, and the safe figures to carry are 0.53 miles or 2,821 feet. This site's practical city guide has said roughly half a mile for a while, and the city's own sheet now sharpens it.
That lap distance matters out of proportion to its size, because it is the only measurement Harrisville publishes about anything. No park acreage, no park hours beyond a ten at night closing time in the fishing rules, no fee, no trail mileage, no attendance and no capacity appears anywhere on the city site. A reader who wants to know how big the main park is will not find out from the city: what the county assessor's roll shows, as the state republishes it and as it stood on 29 October 2025, is that the addressed parcel at 1350 North Highway 89 runs to 3.25 acres and that a separate 17.32 acre government parcel sits next to it at 1416 North Highway 89. Neither is a park boundary and this page does not turn them into one.
The third question people ask is the pond, and the city answers it plainly enough. It lists Harrisville Pond as an amenity, describes a fishing pond at the main park, and says rainbow trout are stocked about four times a year. It also posts its own rules beside it: anyone twelve or over needs a fishing licence except on a free fishing day, there is a four fish limit, and the park closes at ten. The stocking claim is the city's own and was not checked against the Division of Wildlife Resources stocking report in this research, which is the body that would settle species, dates and counts.
Three parks
Every one of them has a walking track, and the city cannot agree with itself about two of the addresses.
Harrisville publishes exactly three parks, and the striking thing is what they have in common rather than what separates them. Each of the three entries on the city's amenities page is headed with walking track information. In a city with no canyon, no bench, no trail system and no river, three tracks inside three square miles is the recreation identity, and it is worth saying plainly rather than reaching for the mountains on the skyline. Every address and amenity below comes off a Harrisville City page read on 21 August 2026.
| The park | Address the city gives | What the city lists on it | The wrinkle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrisville Park | 1350 N Hwy 89, Harrisville, UT 84404 | Bowery, disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts, fishing pond, splash pad, walking track, and the Bicentennial Cabin on the same ground | The city's own venue entry calls it Harrisville Main Park while both parks pages call it Harrisville Park, and the walking track sheet gives 1350 N Hwy 89 as an address for Independence Park as well |
| Independence Park | 220 W Independence on the parks pages; 240 E Independence Blvd or 1350 N Hwy 89 on the city's track sheet | Walking track. The city publishes no other amenity for it | Three different addresses from one city, two of them on Independence Boulevard with different numbers and different sides. City Hall itself is at 363 West Independence Blvd, so the park is within a few blocks of it either way |
| Millenium Park | 550 W 2000 N, Harrisville, UT 84404 | Walking track. The city describes improvement work including bathrooms, playground equipment, lighting around the track, sprinklers and sidewalk | The city spells it Millenium on one parks page and Millennium on the other. Both are the city's own text. This companion follows the shorter spelling and prints the other rather than silently choosing |
Addresses and amenity lists read at the city's Parks and Recreation and Parks and Amenities pages on 21 August 2026. Neither page publishes an acreage, an opening hour or a fee for any park. The improvement description for Millenium Park surfaced from a city page in a site restricted search rather than a directly read page, so it is carried as the city's wording with that caveat attached.
The address disagreement is not a curiosity, it is a practical problem for anybody trying to meet somebody at a park in this city. Harrisville prints 1350 North Highway 89 as the address of Harrisville Park on two pages and as an address for Independence Park on a third, and prints two different Independence Boulevard numbers, one west and one east. A page that quietly picked one and moved on would be doing the reader a disservice, because the reader is going to arrive at whichever address the city page they landed on gave them. The honest instruction is to name the park and check the address against the specific city page you came in on.
What all three have in common is what makes them worth using. A walking track that does not cross a road or a car park is a genuinely different thing from a pavement route, particularly for anybody pushing a pram or walking a course at a set pace, and this city has three of them on three square miles. That is the practical recreation case for a Harrisville address, and it is a stronger one than the mountains on the skyline, which belong to other cities entirely.
The parks, in numbers
3
parks the city publishes, and three walking tracks, one per park
0.53 mi
one lap of the circle portion of the track, or 2,821 feet, on the city's own sheet
1 Apr to 30 Sep
the bowery reservation season and the tennis net season, both residents only for booking
0
acreages, opening hours and fees published for any park by anybody
The main park
A bowery only residents can book, a disc golf course anybody can throw, and tennis nets with a season.
The main park is where nearly everything the city runs actually happens, and its access rules are the part worth carrying. The city's own list gives the Main Park Bowery as available to reserve 1 April to 30 September annually to Harrisville residents, the disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts with nets installed from 1 April to 30 September, the fishing pond, and the splash pad. Read that list carefully and a visitor's day looks like this: you can walk the track, throw a round of disc golf, use a playground and fish the pond, and you cannot book the pavilion. The bowery is a residents only reservation, which is unusual enough to be worth knowing before somebody plans a birthday around it.
The tennis note is the sort of fact that only a city writes down. The courts exist all year; the nets exist from the first of April to the end of September. Anybody turning up in February will find courts and no nets, and no aggregator page anywhere carries that. The same two dates govern the bowery, which suggests they are simply the city's outdoor season rather than anything specific to either amenity.
The disc golf course is the one amenity that draws people from outside the city, and the city says least about it. There is no published course map, no hole count, no par and no length on any city page reached on 21 August 2026. What the city does say, in material surfaced from its own site rather than on a page read directly, is that Parks and Recreation rents discs and that score cards can be found online, with the parks number reached through the city switchboard on 801-782-4100. That is thin, and it is stated here as thin rather than filled in from a listing site.
The Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation venue directory carries an entry for the park too, giving the name as Harrisville Park, the address as 1350 US-89, and the phone number as the city's own, and then pointing straight back at the city. It publishes no acreage and no amenity list of its own. Two public bodies, one of them the state, and between them not a single measurement of the park.
The details
Getting there
The main park sits on Highway 89 north of the Harrisville Road diagonal, which is to say on the US-89 alignment rather than on Washington Boulevard, and the address numbers are Ogden's like every other address in this city. City Hall, the Bicentennial Cabin and the public works yard are all within about half a mile of it on the same grid, so a visitor doing city business and a lap of the track is doing one trip rather than two.
Before you go
- Do not plan around the splash pad. The city's most recent notice, dated 8 June 2026, closed it until further notice, and the summer schedule still printed on the parks page is older than that notice.
- The bowery cannot be booked by a visitor. Reservation is limited to Harrisville residents and runs 1 April to 30 September.
- Tennis nets are installed 1 April to 30 September only. Out of season the courts are there and the nets are not.
- The city's fishing rules for the pond ask for a licence from age twelve except on a free fishing day, set a four fish limit, and close the park at ten at night. The stocking cadence is the city's claim and was not confirmed at the state wildlife division.
The city advertises the splash pad and closes the splash pad on the same website, and the pages carry different dates. The Parks and Recreation page prints a 2026 splash pad schedule of Memorial Day to Labor Day, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ten until eight. A separate city notice dated 8 June 2026 says the splash pad is closed until further notice because of an unforeseen mechanical issue, and an earlier notice dated 12 August 2025 had already reported it closed with staff working to rectify the issue. That is two summers running. As of 21 August 2026 nothing announcing a reopening had been posted on the city site or its news feed. Anybody choosing a Harrisville address partly for that amenity should treat it as unavailable until the city says otherwise, and should ask the city directly rather than reading the schedule page.
The other two
A track beside City Hall, and a park in the middle of being rebuilt.
Independence Park is the one the walking track sheet is headed for, and it is the one the city is least clear about. Its parks pages give 220 West Independence; the sheet gives 240 East Independence Blvd or 1350 N Hwy 89. What is certain is that it sits on the same street as City Hall, which is at 363 West Independence Blvd, and that the 0.53 mile lap belongs to it if the sheet describes it. No parcel matched the published address on an exact search of the county roll, so no distance from City Hall is computed for it here. The address field on that roll is sparse and a non match is a gap in the data rather than evidence that an address is wrong.
Millenium Park sits at 550 West 2000 North, which puts it toward the north west of the city on the Ogden grid, and it is the one in the middle of a change. City material describes new bathrooms, new playground equipment, new lighting around the walking track, sprinklers and sidewalk. That description surfaced from a city page in a site restricted search rather than from a page read directly on 21 August 2026, so it is carried with that caveat and it is the single most likely thing on this page to be out of date by the time anybody reads it. The city publishes no track length for this park and no completion date for the work.
Both parks share the same silences as the main one. No acreage, no hours, no fee, no map. Between them the city publishes a name, an address and the words walking track. What that adds up to in practice is that the three parks are neighbourhood assets rather than destinations, spread across a city small enough that most addresses are near one of them, and that the way to evaluate any of them is to go and walk it.
The details
Getting there
Independence Boulevard runs east and west across the middle of the city, and City Hall, the park and the council chamber are all on it. The city's own address numbering is Ogden's, so a satellite navigation search on the street name alone will offer results in several cities and the number and the quadrant matter more here than they would elsewhere.
Before you go
- Check the address against the specific city page you arrived from. Harrisville prints three different addresses across its own pages for this park.
- The kilometre figure on the city's track sheet is wrong. Use 0.53 miles or 2,821 feet, both of which agree with the metres and the yards on the same sheet.
- Millenium Park at 550 W 2000 N is under improvement on the city's own description, with no completion date published. Expect the ground to have changed.
- Neither park publishes an hour. The only closing time the city puts in writing anywhere is the ten at night in the main park's fishing rules.
Living with it
Three tracks, a pond and a disc course, and everything bigger is in another city.
The realistic version of outdoor life at a Harrisville address starts with the honest scale of what is here. Three parks, three walking tracks, a disc golf course, a fishing pond, a splash pad that has been shut for most of two summers, and a cabin. That is the list, and it is a neighbourhood list rather than a destination list. Anybody buying here for weekend recreation is buying proximity to other cities' ground, not to this city's, and the sensible thing is to check the drive to whichever of those actually matters before rather than after.
What the city does supply is the daily kind of use, and it supplies it unusually well for its size. A track that never crosses traffic, within a short walk of most addresses in a place three square miles across, is the sort of amenity people use four times a week rather than four times a year. The bowery and the cabin being residents only for booking is a real benefit of the address rather than a restriction on it, and the community garden at City Hall is twelve boxes given out first come first served with the water included.
What it does not supply is anything the region is famous for. There is no bench trail in this city, no canyon mouth, no reservoir and no river. Those belong to the bench guide, the canyon guide and the reservoirs guide, and the nearest paved river route of any length is on the river trails guide, which begins south of this city and runs north from Riverdale. Ben Lomond fills the eastern skyline from almost anywhere in Harrisville and not one foot of it is in the city.
A city that publishes one distance and puts it on a walking track is telling you exactly what it thinks its outdoor life is for.
Keep reading
Five more pages on Harrisville, and what each one settles.
The city's year
The Fall Festival and the city's year
One October evening, and the celebration a council cut in a budget meeting in 2020.
Read the guideThe roads
Harrisville Road and the grid
US-89 is Harrisville Road, and the boulevard everybody calls the spine is the border.
Read the guideThe water
The water and the ditches
No river, one creek the federal record calls pipe and ditch, and five bills in one.
Read the guideHow it got here
The brick years
A log home in 1851, a brickyard that ran until 2012, and a township clock at 3:27.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Harrisville
Its own police force and its own court, and no water main, library or fire station.
Read the guideThe whole set
Harrisville, in full
A separate city of 6,913 on Ogden's street numbers, with its own court and no water main.
Open the companionQuick answers
The parks, answered.
No, not on the city's most recent notice. A city notice dated 8 June 2026 reads that park maintenance regrets to inform you the Harrisville Splash Pad is closed until further notice, and that there has been an unforeseen mechanical issue which requires time to repair. A separate city notice dated 12 August 2025 had already reported it closed with staff working to rectify the issue. The city's Parks and Recreation page still prints a schedule of Memorial Day to Labor Day, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ten in the morning until eight at night, which is older than the closure notice. As of 21 August 2026 no reopening had been posted.
One time around the circle portion of the track is 0.53 miles, or 2,821 feet, or 940 yards, or 860 metres, on Harrisville City's own walking track sheet uploaded in January 2025. That sheet also prints 0.68 kilometres for the same lap, which does not agree with the other four figures: 860 metres is 0.86 of a kilometre. The four that agree are the ones to use. The sheet is headed for Independence Park and gives two addresses, 240 East Independence Blvd or 1350 North Highway 89, so it is worth checking which park you are standing in.
Three, and the city names all of them: Harrisville Park at 1350 North Highway 89, Independence Park at 220 West Independence, and Millenium Park at 550 West 2000 North. Every one of the three entries on the city's amenities page is headed with walking track information, so all three carry a track. The city publishes no acreage, no opening hours and no fee for any of them. The city spells the third park Millenium on one of its own parks pages and Millennium on the other, and it prints more than one address for Independence Park.
No. The city's own wording is that the Main Park Bowery is available to reserve April 1 to September 30 annually to Harrisville residents, and that the Martin Henderson Harris Bicentennial Cabin is available to reserve all year long to Harrisville residents. Both reservations are limited to residents. Everything else at the main park is open to anybody: the walking track, the disc golf course, the playgrounds and the fishing pond all carry no published fee and no published restriction. So a visitor can walk, throw and fish, and cannot book the shelter.
Yes. Harrisville City lists Harrisville Pond as an amenity and describes a fishing pond at the main park at 1350 North Highway 89, saying that rainbow trout are stocked about four times a year. The city posts its own rules alongside it: a fishing licence is required from age twelve except on a free fishing day, there is a four fish limit, and the park closes at ten at night. The stocking claim is the city's own and was not checked against the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stocking report in this research, which is the body that would confirm species, dates and counts.
Yes, at the main park, and the city publishes almost nothing about it. There is no course map, no hole count, no par and no length on any city page reached on 21 August 2026. City material surfaced from its own site says Parks and Recreation rents discs and that score cards can be found online, with the parks department reached through the city switchboard on 801-782-4100. No fee for the course or for disc rental is published. Together with the three walking tracks it is the whole of what Harrisville offers a visitor who is not fishing.
The city does not say, and neither does the state. No acreage appears on either of the city's parks pages, on its venue entry for the main park, or on the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation directory entry that points back at the city. What the Weber County assessor's roll shows, as the state republishes it and as it stood on 29 October 2025, is that the addressed parcel at 1350 North Highway 89 runs to 3.25 acres and that a separate 17.32 acre parcel classed as tax exempt local government sits beside it at 1416 North Highway 89. Neither figure is a park boundary and this page does not present them as one.
From 1 April to 30 September, on the city's own wording that nets are installed from April 1 to September 30. The courts themselves are there all year. The same two dates govern the bowery reservation season, which suggests they are simply the city's outdoor season rather than anything specific to tennis. Anybody arriving with a racket outside those dates should expect courts and no nets. It is a small fact and it is the sort of thing only the city itself writes down, which is why it is worth carrying.
No. Harrisville has no bench trail, no canyon, no reservoir and no river inside its city limits, and it publishes no trail of any kind beyond the three walking tracks in its parks. Ben Lomond fills the eastern skyline from almost anywhere in the city and not one foot of it is in Harrisville. The bench trails climb out of Ogden, North Ogden and Pleasant View, the canyon opens off a road that starts in Ogden, and the nearest paved river route of any length begins south of here and runs north from Riverdale. Each of those has its own guide on The Local.
Three parks, three tracks and a shopping list of things that are in the next city.
The parks are the easy part of a Harrisville decision and the honest scale of them is the point: a track within a short walk of most addresses, a pond, a disc course, and nothing that anybody drives across the county for. What is worth testing before an offer is the rest of the picture. Walk the track at the hour you would actually use it. Look at which of the three parks the address is genuinely near on the Ogden grid rather than on a map scale. Ask the city directly about the splash pad and about the work at Millenium Park, because the site will not tell you and the newsletter has not been added to since May 2025. Tell me which streets are in play and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who knows this city block by block, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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