The three parks Harrisville
Three city parks, a disc golf course and a stocked fishing pond
Harrisville's three parks and the fishing pond, with a walking track in each
Harrisville publishes three parks and puts a walking track in every one, which in a city with no canyon, no bench trail and no river is the whole of its outdoor recreation. The main park on Highway 89 carries a bowery only residents can book, a disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts, a stocked fishing pond and a splash pad. The one measurement the city puts a number to is the walking loop, about half a mile, and the splash pad is the one amenity worth checking before you go.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Harrisville publishes three parks and puts a walking track in every one, which in a city with no canyon, no bench trail and no river is the whole of its outdoor recreation. The main park at 1350 North Highway 89 carries a bowery, a disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts, a stocked fishing pond and a splash pad, and the cabin the city rents sits on the same ground. Almost nothing here has a published price. The one measurement the city puts a number to is the walking loop, about half a mile, or 0.53 mile on its own track sheet. The splash pad is the one thing to check before you go: the city's most recent notice closed it until further notice, so treat it as shut and ask the city.
The three parks
Three parks, and a walking track in each
Harrisville has three parks, and what they share matters more than what sets them apart. Every one carries a walking track. In a city with no canyon, no bench trail and no river, three tracks inside three square miles is the recreation the city actually offers, and it is worth taking on its own terms rather than reaching for the mountains on the skyline. The one place two of the addresses get slippery is worth knowing before you drive over.
| The park | Address the city gives | What is on it | Good to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrisville Park | 1350 N Highway 89, Harrisville | Bowery, disc golf course, playgrounds, tennis courts, fishing pond, splash pad, walking track, and the Bicentennial Cabin on the same ground | The city's venue page also calls it Harrisville Main Park |
| Independence Park | 220 W Independence on the parks pages; 240 E Independence Blvd on the walking track sheet | Walking track; the city lists no other amenity | City Hall sits on the same street at 363 W Independence Blvd; check the address against the city page you came in on |
| Millenium Park | 550 W 2000 N, Harrisville | Walking track; the city describes work here on restrooms, playground equipment, lighting and sidewalk | Under improvement on the city's description; ask the city what is finished. Spelled Millenium on one city page and Millennium on another |
The city publishes no acreage, no opening hour and no fee for any of the three parks.
The address disagreement is a small practical problem rather than a curiosity. The city prints 1350 North Highway 89 as the address of Harrisville Park, and its walking track sheet also puts that same number, and a separate Independence Boulevard number, on Independence Park. Two people meeting at a park can end up in two places. The honest fix is to name the park you mean and check the number against the city page you started from, since the city itself gives more than one.
What all three parks have in common is what makes them worth using. A walking track that never crosses a road or a parking lot is a different thing from a sidewalk route, especially for anybody pushing a stroller or walking at a set pace, and Harrisville has three of them on three square miles. That is the real recreation case for an address here, and it is a stronger one than the mountains on the skyline, which belong to other cities.
The parks, in numbers
3
city parks, and three walking tracks, one in each
0.53 mi
one lap of the main circle track, or 2,821 feet, on the city's own sheet
Apr to Sep
the bowery and tennis net season, both residents only to book
0
acreages, opening hours or fees the city publishes for any park
The main park
What is at the main park, and what a visitor can and cannot use
The main park at 1350 North Highway 89 is where nearly everything the city runs actually happens, and the access rules are the part worth knowing first. The bowery, the shelter people book for a party, is reservable from 1 April to 30 September, and only by Harrisville residents. The Martin Henderson Harris Bicentennial Cabin on the same ground is reservable all year, again residents only. So 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 resident-only rule is unusual enough to be worth knowing before anyone plans a birthday around it.
The tennis is the sort of detail only a city writes down. The courts are there all year; the nets go up from the first of April to the end of September. Turn up in February and you will find courts and no nets. The same two dates govern the bowery, so they look like the city's outdoor season rather than anything specific to tennis.
The disc golf course is the one thing that draws people from outside Harrisville, and the city says the least about it. There is no course map, no hole count, no par and no length on any city page. What the city does say is that Parks and Recreation rents discs and that score cards are online, with the department reached at 801-782-4100. That is thin, and it is honest to leave it thin rather than fill it in from a listing site.
The fishing pond is the draw the city describes most fully. It says rainbow trout are stocked about four times a year, and it posts its own rules at the water. The Division of Wildlife Resources is the body that runs stocking and sets catch rules statewide, so it is the place to confirm the current stocking and limits before you fish.
The details
Before you go
- The bowery and the cabin can be booked by Harrisville residents only. A visitor cannot reserve either.
- Tennis nets are up 1 April to 30 September. Out of season the courts are there and the nets are not.
- The pond has posted fishing rules: a license from age twelve except on free fishing days, a catch limit, and a ten at night closing. Confirm the current rules with the city or the Division of Wildlife Resources.
- Every address in Harrisville uses Ogden's street numbers, so search the park by its full number and quadrant rather than the street name alone.
The city both advertises and closes the splash pad on its own site. A summer schedule of Memorial Day to Labor Day still sits on the parks page, while the city's most recent notice closed the splash pad until further notice for a mechanical problem. It has been shut across more than one season. Anyone choosing a Harrisville address partly for that amenity should treat it as unavailable until the city says otherwise, and ask the city directly rather than trusting the schedule page.
The other two
Independence Park and Millenium Park, a track by City Hall and a park being rebuilt
Independence Park is the one the walking track sheet is headed for, and the one the city is least clear about. Its parks pages give 220 West Independence; the sheet gives 240 East Independence Blvd. Either way it sits on the same street as City Hall at 363 West Independence Blvd, within a few blocks of it, and the 0.53 mile loop belongs to it. The loop distance is for the circle portion of the track; the sheet gives no figure for anything outside the circle.
Millenium Park at 550 West 2000 North sits toward the northwest of the city, and it is the one in the middle of a change. The city describes work here on restrooms, playground equipment, lighting around the track, sprinklers and sidewalk. That is the single most likely thing on this page to have moved on by the time you read it, so it is the one to check with the city before a visit. The city publishes no track length for this park and no date for the work.
Both parks share the main park's silences. No acreage, no hours, no fee, no map. Between them the city publishes a name, an address and the words walking track. In practice the three parks are neighborhood assets rather than destinations, spread across a city small enough that most addresses are near one of them, and the way to judge any of them is to go and walk it. Worth knowing too: the city's community garden is not in a park at all, but twelve boxes on the east side of the City Hall lot, with the water included, and its classes run at the main park.
The details
Before you go
- Check the address against the city page you came in on. Harrisville prints more than one address for Independence Park.
- The kilometer figure on the city's track sheet does not match its other numbers. Use 0.53 mile or 2,821 feet, which agree with the yards on the same sheet.
- Millenium Park is under improvement on the city's own description, with no date published. Expect the ground to have changed, and ask the city what is finished.
- Neither park publishes an hour. The only closing time the city writes down anywhere is the ten at night in the main park's fishing rules.
Living here
What the parks mean if you live here, and what you drive to for everything else
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 cabin, and a splash pad the city has closed more than once. That is the list, and it is a neighborhood list rather than a destination one. Anybody buying here for weekend recreation is buying nearness to other cities' ground, not to this city's, so the sensible move is to check the drive to whichever of those matters to you before an offer, not after.
What the city does supply is the everyday kind of use, and it supplies it 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 thing people use four times a week rather than four times a year. The bowery and the cabin being residents only to book is a benefit of the address rather than a restriction on it, and the community garden at City Hall is twelve boxes handed out first come first served, 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 Ben Lomond bench guide, the Ogden Canyon guide and the Pineview and Causey guide, and the nearest paved river route runs north from Riverdale on the river parkways guide. 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.
Scott Buehler
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The parks, answered
Treat it as closed. The city both advertises and closes the splash pad on its own site: its most recent notice closed it until further notice for a mechanical problem, while an older summer schedule of Memorial Day to Labor Day still sits on the parks page beside it. It has been shut across more than one season. Ask the city directly before you count on it.
One time around the circle portion of the track is 0.53 mile, or 2,821 feet, or 940 yards, on Harrisville City's own walking track sheet. The sheet also prints a kilometer figure that does not match the others, so the numbers to trust are 0.53 mile or 2,821 feet. The sheet is headed for Independence Park and gives more than one address, 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 carries a walking track. The city publishes no acreage, no opening hours and no fee for any of them, spells the third park Millenium on one page and Millennium on another, and prints more than one address for Independence Park.
No. The city's wording is that the Main Park Bowery is reservable from April 1 to September 30 to Harrisville residents, and the Martin Henderson Harris Bicentennial Cabin is reservable all year to Harrisville residents. Both 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 carry no published fee. So a visitor can walk, throw and fish, and cannot book the shelter.
Yes. Harrisville City lists a fishing pond at the main park at 1350 North Highway 89 and says rainbow trout are stocked about four times a year, with the Division of Wildlife Resources the place to confirm the current stocking. The city posts its own rules at the pond: a fishing license from age twelve except on free fishing days, a catch limit, and a ten at night closing. Confirm the current rules with the city before you fish.
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. The city says Parks and Recreation rents discs and that score cards can be found online, and the department is reached through the city at 801-782-4100. No fee for the course or for disc rental is published. With the three walking tracks it is most of what Harrisville offers a visitor who is not fishing.
The city does not say, and neither does the state. No acreage appears on the city's parks pages, on its venue entry for the main park, or on the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation directory that points back at the city. The county assessor's parcel at 1350 North Highway 89 runs to about 3.25 acres, with a larger city government parcel beside it at 1416 North Highway 89, but neither of those is the park boundary.
From April 1 to September 30, on the city's own wording that the nets are installed over those dates. 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.
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 runs north from Riverdale. Each has its own guide on The Local.
Three parks, three tracks and a pond, and a move that turns on more than that
The parks are the easy part of a Harrisville decision, and their honest scale is the point: a track within a short walk of most addresses, a pond, a disc course, and nothing 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 an address is genuinely near on the Ogden grid, and ask the city directly about the splash pad and the work at Millenium Park. 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 research and financing side.
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