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.

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.

I'm a sucker for a park, even more so if there's a big, beautiful pavilion that hosts large groups…read more This is exactly what I was able to experience this past weekend when I visited Lone Peak Park for a Ramadan Iftar dinner. The space has a sort of mountain lodge feel, but without being in the mountains. It's a large, open room that can be transformed to hold events such as family reunions, wedding receptions, large group dinners, etc. I can't speak to the price, since I was just a guest and not hosting the event, but I'd imagine that it would be fairly reasonable since it's at a park. Lots of parking and there is a great playground for the kiddos to run out there endless energy on.

The skate park is awesome! There are so many rails and ledges, and it's great for beginner or…read moreintermediate skaters

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.

This is a nice park in Sandy, it pops up in a neighborhood and is easy to pass if you don't know…read morewhat you're looking for. There are four pickleball courts here and at least one tennis court. I love to come here and play pickleball. There's a playground so if you have littles and they don't know how or aren't old enough to play pickleball, there's something for everyone making this a really good park for meeting friends or family anytime of day. It does get fairly hot but there are water fountains and it is close to the Trax station as well as the sandy dog park is walking distance.

This park is the worst. The bathrooms are always locked every single time!!! it was a Major…read moreemergency for us to take my daughter to find a bathroom when she was supposed to be at practice here...

The times I've visited this park have been for the hot air balloon festival, so my experience might…read morebe a little biased. The park seems like it was built for this type of event-the large grassy area and the raised grass space around the perimeter makes for perfect seating and viewing of the balloons below. I'll have to make it a point to come back when there isn't an event to experience the park in it's day-to-day glory. I have a feeling it's still just as nice.

We Love this park! It's close to home, has been updated within the past 3 years I believe. And I…read morehave memories from when I was a kid playing here with my crazy siblings. It's hit or miss when it's busy, but never to busy to take away from the fun. Saturday's they have soccer games going during the morning and early afternoon. You can reserve the pavilion for parties, they have clean bathrooms, tennis courts, jogging trail and so much more.

Great spot for the kids- it's a nice little playground but the main attraction is the zip line…read more Kids can stand or sit while they zip down the cable and it keeps them plenty busy. There's also other stuff to do around the playground and there's plenty of room to run around. I liked that there's a baseball field directly next to the playground so we can bring out the gear and have a fun time before or after the playground.

Good park to go with the little after school or anytime!…read more Super fun and I like to go here it's the closest drive able park and I like to bring my dog here and to play pickleball. Good park chill vibes good place I like it like that.

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!