Things to do / Travel Guide
When the family needs an afternoon of unstructured unwinding, northern Utah's parks are the place you want to be. Whether you want to just park yourself on bench and shoot the breeze (or enjoy the breeze) while your children entertain themselves with their own enthusiasm, or if you are looking for an exercise-intense, energy-expending pick-up sports game, skateboarding park, or playground stint, northern Utah public parks will please the entire family.
Salt Lake City Parks
Your kids will fully exercise their freedom running around Liberty Park in downtown Salt Lake City. The city's biggest and oldest city park, the wide-open, grassy space also features a paddleboat pond, a fountain created out of Little Cottonwood Canyon granite boulders, and a number of appealing playgrounds. Fitts Park is fitting for a lackadaisical, laissez-faire afternoon. The park offers luxuriant lawns, sand volleyball pits, and several playgrounds. For a couple of sweet, unstructured hours in one of Salt Lake City's prettiest public places, try the 130-acre Sugarhouse Park. Kite flying, running, jumping, cartwheeling, or caterwauling - your kids can do it all at these parks! Absorb the breathtaking views of the mountains while your children enjoy feeding the ducks in the pond. In the winter, children bring sleds, saucers, and tubes to slide down Sugarhouse Park's rolling hills.
Other Northern Utah Parks
You can expect big family fun at Big D Sports Park in Ogden, which features soccer fields, baseball diamonds, volleyball and basketball courts, as well as a state-of-the-art playground. Kids can enjoy a pickup game of their sport of choice or just expend extra enthusiasm and energy. Provo parks prove themselves to be kid-friendly, too. Try 31-acre Bicentennial Rotary Park on South 1600 East. With wide, undulating grasses shaded by tall, sturdy trees, volleyball sand pits, a large, placid duck pond, and a well-equipped playground, it is the perfect spot to spend a couple of relaxing hours with your family.
Skate Parks in Northern Utah
Don't think northern Utah has overlooked the needs of skateboarders - nearly every community has a skate park. Living up to its name, Park City has built Utah's largest outdoor cement facility, located in City Park. Open from 9 a.m. until sunset, Park City's skate park is an ideal place to let your concrete-crazed kids gleam the cube. Watch your young skateboarding buff bust some moves to keep in step with the buzz around Ogden's Lorin Farr Skate Park, on the Ogden River Parkway. Open dawn to dusk, this concrete colossus features close to 13,000 square feet of ramps and grinding rails, as well as two half pipes and a fun box. Your wheel-wielding progeny can also throw their most impressive tricks at Logan Skate Park in Logan. Considered the best in the state, Logan's skate park has several horseshoe-type square bowls, a closed bowl, and a spine bowl.
Marble Park, near Golden Spike National Historic Site
You won't find pristine marble at Marble Park, but rather a hodgepodge of wagon wheels, milk cans, railroad trestles, tractor seats, antique farming equipment, and wagon wheels. Sculptures crafted from this motley mixture of farming, railroad, and cattle ranching artifacts, artfully welded together by artist Boyd Marble, are what give the park its quirky and cavalier charm. It's the perfect place for a picnic; your children can wander the winding brick pathways, run from sculpture to sculpture, and enjoy Marble Park's exceptionally good playground.
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