Ogden's parks, pools and courses

Monroe Park is a mid sized bookable park, about 10 acres at 820 30th Street. The city lists a pavilion, a playground, a baseball diamond, a pickleball court, open grass, a restroom and a lot. It books on the standard terms: 15 April to 15 October, two daily slots at the lowest tier, the refundable deposit and eight days notice.

The combination is the useful part. A baseball diamond, a pickleball court, a restroom and parking on ten acres is a park you can spend a whole afternoon in without leaving, and a restroom on site is not a given across the city's index. Thirtieth Street runs east off the downtown grid onto the bench, which puts the park within a few minutes of most of the older city.

For a low slot fee plus a deposit you get back, an eight hour pavilion slot on ten acres is hard to beat against a private venue. The catch is the calendar, not the price: bookings only run spring to mid October, and the eight day notice rules out anything spontaneous. Plan a summer gathering in the spring.

Liberty Park is the racquet park, about 10.6 acres at 751 East 21st Street. Its list is a pavilion, a playground, four tennis courts, a basketball court, an open field, a restroom and on street parking. Four tennis courts is the most named at any single Ogden park, which makes this the city's tennis park whether or not anyone calls it that.

It books on the same terms as the rest of the system, the lowest slot tier with the refundable deposit and eight days notice. The one real difference from Monroe Park is parking: the city lists on street parking here rather than a lot, which matters if a gathering brings thirty cars onto a residential street.

One warning that has nothing to do with the park itself: this is not the larger, better known Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, 40 miles south. Same name, different city, and searches mix them constantly.

Beus Pond is the quiet one, about 20 acres at 4240 Country Hills Drive on the south end of the bench. The city describes it differently from the rest of the index: a nature park, with a walking path, benches, a picnic table, an on leash dog area, a restroom and a lot. No pavilion, no courts, no booking and no fee.

At just over 20 acres it is the same size as Mt. Ogden Park and larger than Monroe or Liberty, and it is one of only two parks the city calls a nature park rather than recreation ground. If you want a quiet loop rather than a facility, this is the city's answer, and it is free.

It shares a name with Beus Canyon, a bench trail with its own trailhead higher up, and the two are not the same place. The canyon and its trail live on the bench page. The pond is a city park at a street address on the flat above the freeway.

This is the biggest single park on the list and one of the least written about. Ogden Bike Park covers about 26.6 acres reached from 9th Street, and the city lists a pavilion, a parking lot and dirt trails it grades for all skill levels, with no motorised vehicles. At 26 acres it is larger than Mt. Ogden Park and about the size of the whole of Fort Buenaventura.

It is a purpose built dirt riding park on the flat, free, with a pavilion and a lot. That matters because Ogden's recreation is usually described through its canyon and its bench trails, both of which belong to other pages. A park built specifically for riding is the opposite of borrowed geography. Paired with Trackline, the city owns close to 38 acres built for bikes.

The city posts no hours and no fee, so its general park rules apply, and the one rule it states plainly is no motor vehicles. It does not post a trail map, count or grading beyond all skill levels, so plan to ride it to learn what is there. Wet dirt takes damage, so the season that keeps it in shape is dry spring and fall.

Trackline Bike Park sits at 540 Stockman Way on about 11 acres, and its city listing is the most specific in the whole parks index. What the city lists is a beginner to lower intermediate skills park, a single track loop, ladder bridges, skinnies, wooden rollers, and access to the Ogden River Parkway. That is a facility described by feature rather than by category, which is rare and useful.

Skinnies and ladder bridges are the vocabulary of a built skills park rather than a trail, and the grading the city gives, beginner to lower intermediate, is an honest one that tells you whether it suits a first timer. Between this and the bigger bike park across town, Ogden has both ends of the discipline covered: a graded skills park with named features here, open dirt for all levels there.

The parkway link in that listing is a connection, not an overlap. The Ogden River Parkway, its reaches and its trailheads, is written once for the whole region. What belongs here is that this park touches it, so a skills session and a paved ride can be one outing.

The Marshall White Center is both a park and the only indoor recreation centre Ogden City runs. As a park it is about 6.5 acres at 222 28th Street with a playground, a basketball court, an open field, a pool, a gym and a lot. As a centre it keeps real hours: Monday through Thursday 5 in the morning to 9 at night, Friday 5 to 7, Saturday 6 to 7, and Sunday noon to 5. The phone is 801-629-8346.

Daily admission is modest, with an adult rate and lower rates for a senior 60 and over and a youth aged 3 to 17; confirm the current price. Those 5 in the morning weekday openings are the earliest of any public facility here, and a Sunday afternoon opening puts it among the few paid indoor places in Ogden open on a Sunday at all.

It is the honest rainy day answer that is not a shopping centre and not a paid attraction. One low admission buys a gym, a pool and a court in a city where most indoor options close in the late afternoon.

The outdoor pool at 769 Canyon Road is the cheapest gate on this list. Admission is a few dollars for anyone aged four and up, under threes free, and a small fee to spectate. There is an individual season pass and a family pass for up to eight family members; confirm the current rates. What that buys, on the city's list, is one large pool, one smaller pool, three water slides, shaded umbrella rentals and open gathering areas. Open swim runs Monday to Saturday from noon to six and Sunday from one to six, and the phone is 801-629-8186.

The season runs Memorial Day to Labor Day, and it closes in two steps: a daily season through late August, then weekends only into early September. Hold that handoff, because the indoor pool at the Marshall White Center starts its fall season on about the same late August day the outdoor one drops to weekends. One pool hands off to the other.

The passes are the value. Against a daily gate this low, an individual pass pays for itself within a couple of weeks of regular visits, and a family pass a good deal sooner. Across a summer, that is a low bar for anyone who swims once a week.

Ogden City runs two golf courses, not three: Mt Ogden on the East Bench and El Monte toward the canyon mouth, both on one shared fee schedule. A regular round is priced by nine or eighteen holes, a little more Friday to Sunday than Monday to Thursday. Juniors 17 and under pay a reduced rate, and college, senior and military players have their own weekday rate. A cart is extra, per rider, by nine or eighteen. The city amended these fees partway through 2026, so treat any figure you see elsewhere as dated and confirm the current schedule before you play.

There is one early bird, and it is El Monte only: nine holes before the morning cutoff, riding or walking, with an earlier cutoff at weekends. Season passes and punch cards run a wide range on top of that.

Ben Lomond Golf Course is not one of these. It sat on Highway 89 on the Harrisville and North Ogden side of the line, closed in 2018, and its land is being built over with housing. When people count three Ogden courses, that is the third one, and it is gone.

The Weber County Ice Sheet sits at 4390 Harrison Boulevard, at the Weber County Sports Complex beside Weber State on the East Bench. The office number is 801-778-6360. It is a county facility rather than a city one, which puts it in the same column as Fort Buenaventura: county ground inside a city, and off the city's own maps.

Its ice sports, in the venue's own list, are ice hockey, figure skating, curling and learn to skate, and its resident teams include the Ogden Mustangs and the Weber County Junior Mustangs. The venue calls itself a 2002 Olympic Winter Games venue, and curling is among the sports it still runs today.

Public skate times are not posted on the front page, which routes to a calendar instead. A rink shared among several resident teams and a learn to skate program is one whose open hours move week to week, so call 801-778-6360 or open the calendar before you drive up.