One of the best parks around! Tons of open space, excellent tennis courts, and plenty of room to…read morerelax, exercise, or spend time with family and friends.

This is a lovely park to play tennis and pickleball, and have picnics galore. It's a beautiful park…read morewith gorgeous sunset views out west, and it's the perfect venue for kite flying on a windy day. Just so we're clear, this is NOT where you go to see fireworks. Someone else reviewed, claiming it was a great place to go. It's not. There's a whole perimeter of large established trees that blocks most of the view of the entire valley down below. The idea is cool, but you're better off going up to Wasatch or Ensign for a valley view. This wasn't it. I suppose this is where you'd go if you were afraid of fireworks. It was very anticlimactic.

Well, this is a different place than it used to be. As a kid, I would go here with my dad. It was a…read moreschool then, and we'd sled down the hill. Some very fond memories of my dad getting the old inner tubes, blowing them up, and tubing down. He took my little brothers a couple times and I went as a pre-teen and the hill seemed much smaller then. As a teen, my first ever paying job was here. Again, it was still a school, and they had baseball diamonds where I was an umpire for tee-ball. Such memories. When they got rid of the school, I was curious to see what would happen. What sprung up in its place was a park that the next generation of kids will have to fill their memories. Instead of the school, and a winter-only sledding hill, this is a full-blown summer park. Apparently splash pads are a thing. Safer than a pool (at least for drowning) and still built to keep you cool in the heat of the summer, there's a big ol' splash pad here that's built for the little ones to stomp around and get wet. Bring the sunscreen. As others have mentioned, there's a lack of shade here, so you'll want to protect yourself from the sun. And it's probably best as a weekday reprieve. It swarms with kids on the weekends and you might get elbowed around. Beyond the splash pad, you've got some playgrounds that are geared towards different aged kids, some courts, and a whole lot of grass. This park covers the bases for lots of kids of different ages and will surely be one of the places to provide them with fond childhood memories.

Currently, the playgrounds are completely fenced off because no one took into account that the…read moreslides would get too hot in the sun. Where did the architects that work for for Cottonwood Heights get their degrees? Unbelievable. Hopefully the city has the cash to pony-up for some shade structures stat. Epic fail.

To get to this park, you must drive on a small 2-way road to a dirt parking lot. You can then park…read moreyour car and get ready to go on a short journey. There are trash cans available in the parking lot. DOGS ARE ALLOWED, but must be on leash. There are poo bags available for dog owners. The park has a paved 2-way walking/biking trail. It looks like a mini road. As you walk along the paved trail, you can see the Old Mill. It is fenced off to the public, but you can get an overall look of the whole place. The trail is pretty short and at the end of it, you reach the road and a residence area. The bridge near the parking lot over-looks a huge gaping hole. When I visited the park, the whole area was dry, but I have a feeling it should be filled with water. There were signs about being careful in the water, also there were a couple lost water toys in the mass of stones. I enjoyed this park, but I do wish the trail was longer. I have a feeling the huge river/reservoir and the Old Mill are the main attractions of the park, but there is no water in the huge hole at the moment and the Old Mill is fenced off, so there isn't much to do. Without the reservoir filled, I don't think a long drive to the park would be worth it, but I only live 5 minutes away from the park, so I didn't mind it. I would come back again because it's convenient and a bit more interesting than other parks that only have playgrounds and grass fields.

Aspen Meadows would be best described as a dog-walking park…read more While it has a gigantic space, there aren't the usual sporting accoutrements like tennis courts, basketball hoops, goals and such (although the room is plentiful enough for it!). There is, however, a perfectly placed playground for the kids, a few picnic tables including one under a gazebo. This playground includes the usuals and some unusuals, including a cool mini rock-climbing wall. The is a little bit of road noise, but luckily 9800 isn't used much up this way! Placed on a steepish hill, with a walkway around it, the grandiose space is perfect for walking your dog...or walking yourself. ;) There is even a poop-bag station. There is also a cool walk path connecting directly from the nearby neighborhood. Definitely a cool park for the whole family!

Great park with tons of variety. Climbing wall was lots of fun and is not small by any means. The…read morelocation is nice a d has a gazebo with bench to stay out of the sun or take a break in the shade.

First time coming here and what a beautiful drive up to cottonwood heights. Plenty of benches, a…read morehose, fountains for humans and dogs, and there's a paved trail for wheel chairs and strollers. There's bathrooms at the entrance too! Parking is limited though. It's fully fenced in so you can let your dogs off leash! There's a small hill where it's not paved and you can walk to the top for a view from up top! Smokey and Bob had a blast meeting, greeting and sniffing EVERYTHING! There's not much shade so come prepared with sunscreen and a big hat!

Beautiful dog park with water for dogs and humans and fenced so can be off leash. My dog loved it!read more

I have known the name Bywater Park my entire life. The first house I remember living in was just a…read morefew streets away from here, but you know how things go when you're just a tyke--you hear names, you go places, but you don't really pay attention and put it all together. I was out for a nostalgic drive the other day and wound up driving past the old house. In the recesses of my mind, I remembered thinking that there is a park nearby. I have vague recollections of my dad walking there. Of a crabapple tree, and him teaching me what a crabapple tree is. They didn't look like apples to me, and he explained they're not edible. These are only hazy memories; we moved from this house when I was seven years old. I drove out of the neighborhood and followed the haze of my mind. I remember running away from home once, but not getting far as I was not allowed to cross the street. So I remembered the route was outside of my street, because only dad could take me there by crossing the street, and I drove beyond the boundaries of my former universe. Left. Then straight. Then right. But there was no park. I had sworn it was there. But it also had, as I mentioned, a mysterious place in my mind. Like it was our own little private park. Like it was some kind of secret. So I zoomed out my GPS and scanned for nearby parks. I did see a large patch of green, but it was a ways away. Curious, I set a course, drove down a hill, left, up, and out onto a busy street. This wasn't it. It couldn't have been; this was too busy and not our secret. Still curious, I finished the route and saw a sign for Bywater Park. The name swung open a sealed door in my mind with such a clang that I turned in and immediately was that boy again. The tennis courts. The pavilion. the baseball diamond. This was our park! Only the upper parking lot was open, and everything below was gated off. I got out, walked down the hill (did there used to be a water canal here? I don't recall) and all the way down the parking lot. As I neared the north end of this narrow park, it felt like I was close to my old neighborhood. And then, there at the very tail, I saw a little opening in the fence. Well, I must have had a giant grin on my face as I made my way through the opening to a tiny, narrow little walkway between two fences. It's long and skinny (like, one-person wide) and as I neared the end and popped out, there I was. Next to the house where dad had taught me about crabapples, just three streets from the old house. Why do I tell you about this? Because that's the feel of Bywater. Like a hidden little spot way up on the east side. Like a little park where the junior baseball kids play in diamonds with REAL halfway-underground dugouts. Where very tidy tennis courts are used by Cottonwood Heights Rec Center but are open for citizens. Where a quiet, happy park sits at the end of a secret neighborhood shortcut. This is where dads take their kids, where moms meet up, where neighbors congregate, and kids live out diamond dreams. Decades had passed since he took his son to the park with the secret entrance, and I thought about how much has changed. My dad retired the week prior. My whole life, the whole time I've known him, he's gotten up, put on a suit, and gone to work. What must he had thought on those days when we went for a walk? Is there anything still the same today as it was back then? As I was thinking about this, I made my way back up the narrow passageway into the park. Just then, a dad and his son entered the walkway, the little boy toddling along pushing his toy lawnmower. They were just finishing their visit to Bywater Park and walking home.

Bywater Park is the ritzy neighborhood's ritzy Park they don't want anyone to know about…read more Unfortunately, I found it. Some of the best-kept tennis courts I've seen at a park, epic and grandiose open spaces, well-tended-to baseball diamond, plenty of picnic tables, a lovely playground and a sheltered area which is perfect for large parties of people. It's big, secluded, filled with happy, chirping birds, and plenty of great places to walk, ruminate on a shaded bench, or play. So citizens of Murray, Midvale, South Salt Lake, Sandy, and all points in between, make your way to beautiful Bywater Park!

As far as parks go, this one has a pretty ok trail that meanders in and out of trees on the…read moreperimeter of the park itself. There are houses that back up to the park and the trail, so you're not exactly out in the wilderness, but you do get a good bit of nature. Inside the park area, there's plenty of seating at randomly dispersed picnic tables and benches. They probably aren't really random, but they do look slightly haphazard. The playground has brought joy to many a child, and it shows in the aging equipment. There's a tennis court and a pool, although I visited in early spring and I'm not sure if the pool is still in use-the building around it looks pretty run down.

Too many dogs off leash, dog poop everywhere and gravel path…read more The trail behind the park is all gravel and NO shade. People letting their digs run wild. Not my idea of a nice leisurely stroll.

The park itself has become one of the gems of the Salt Lake City disc golf community, featuring an…read more18 hole course. The park has some beautiful big trees and is relatively flat aside from the hill on the west side, and there is the namesake creek that runs along the south edge of the park. It is one of the best disc golf courses around, and plays hosts to leagues and tournaments. The major problem here is that it is directly next to the Wasatch Charter School. When school is in session, parents have decided that the parking lot for Creekside Park is where they will pick up and drop off their kids. So for hours each day in the morning and afternoon, the parking lot is next to impossible to access being clogged by those cars. The other problem with the location next to the school, is that the school has decided that the whole park is a convenient recess location. Without notice, hundreds of children will come running over the hill and flood into all areas of the park, disrupting your quiet picnics or peaceful rounds of disc golf. Now if you're a disc golfer, you probably don't want to hit a little kid in the head (I swear all the "ten bonus point" jokes are only jokes). And if you're a little kid, you probably don't want to get walloped in the head by a hurdling disc of hard plastic. I'm not sure why the school just sends out all the kids unsupervised into the woods to run wild and pay absolutely zero attention to the disc golfers who are in the middle of a round, but at some point there are bound to be injuries. The park also has one large pavilion that can seat about 100 people, a small playground for the kids, and a sand volleyball area, so it is a good option for bbq's and gatherings. My advice is that it is a beautiful park, but if you're going to try to enjoy the park during the school year, to do so on the weekends.

The park is looking nice these days. New signs with bag holders (that also double as a dog leash…read moreholder) are a nice touch. This is a great course to learn how to play disc golf. The holes are not that long and the terrain is pretty mellow. Just watch out you don't go in the river! You may want to avoid peak times, especially in the summer, if you don't feel like waiting around forever.