Top Rated Parks to Visit in Tooele

"This 80-acre park provides Salt Lake City's residents and visitors with an enormous amount of green space immediately in the center of the city. Sandwiched between Sugarhouse and Downtown, Liberty Park has a jogging trail and paved sidewalk around its perimeter, playgrounds, and tennis courts for use by the public. Ponds in the center of the park serve as a place to relax and feed ducks."

"Liberty Park is one of the more iconic Salt Lake City locations today, especially for sightseeing. It was first purchased from Bingham Young’s estate back in 1881, and now (and since 1980), it is on the National Registry of Historic Places. This oasis covers 80 acres of land, and it is the largest park in all of SLC."

"Liberty Park is one of the most popular urban parks in Salt Lake City. Spreading over 80 acres, this is the SLC’s second-largest park as well. As mentioned earlier, this park features the famous Tracy Aviary."

"Thomas Child built Gilgal Garden in the mid 1900s as a way “to give physical form to his deep-felt beliefs.” This small garden, tucked away in a non-descript street in the Liberty Wells neighborhood, is a wacky, weird, and yet beautiful place. Strewn across moss-covered hills lay some of the most abstract sculptures of arms, legs, hearts, and verses from the Bible. If you need a break from traffic and screaming kids, spend an hour or so meandering around this unique corner of Salt Lake City and have your eyes and minds opened."

"Gilgal Sculpture Garden was envisioned, designed, and created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. in the mid-twentieth century. Tucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses, Gilgal Sculpture Garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, and literary texts. The public is invited to visit the garden seven days a week."

"Sugar House Park is a public urban park in Salt Lake City, spanning 110 acres throughout the city's Sugar House neighborhood. The park is located on grounds formerly housing Utah's first state prison, Sugar House Prison, which operated until 1951. Today, it offers two children's playgrounds, a 4.5-acre scenic pond and fountains, and more than three miles of visitor walking, jogging, and cycling paths, including a loop path that spans the park's perimeter."

"One of Salt Lake City's favorite (and largest) playgrounds, this attractive park has a rather checkered past. Originally, the area was the setting for one of the state's first prisons, an adobe structure in use until 1951. All that currently remains of the prison are a couple of historical markers, and, today, the park offers everything from soccer fields and a duck pond to expansive green areas and picnic shelters."

"Located in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood, Sugar House Park is a 110-acre park (the largest park in the city). And this is an ideal place to visit your family and kids. Especially, many people visit this park for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, sledding on hills, and many other winter activities in the winter months."

"This one-block (10-acre) park is more for the history buff than the family of five. Originally constructed by free masons in the early 1890s, the historic City and County Building resides in this square, which was named for George Washington and is the site of the original 1847 Mormon pioneers camp in Salt Lake. Trees, walkways, benches, and statues create a relaxing place to admire the City and County Building’s Romanesque sandstone spires and impressive clock tower."

"Tanner Park is a 10-acre park near the mouth of Parley's Canyon. It offers views of the valley and the mountains and connects directly to the recently finished Parley’s Trail, a paved two-way path running eight miles from 900 West to Wasatch Boulevard. The park is also adjacent to Parley’s Historic Nature Park, featuring trails, natural vegetation, Parley’s Creek, BMX tracks, and an off-leash dog park."

"The limited parking in the University of Utah neighborhood tends to keep visitors to on-campus events only. But park in the stadium lot or take TRAX up to the University Station and stroll a couple blocks westward to Faultline Park at 400 South and 11th East. The park grounds roll over the hill dropping from the University to downtown, which makes for amazing sunset views in the evening."

"While adjacent Tanner Park is popular with the dog-owner set, most people drive right by on I-80 as they enter Parley’s Canyon, never considering that the gully to the south is home to a lovely stream and network of trails at Parley’s Historic Nature Park. There are a few designated off-leash dog areas within the park, with other areas that are on-leash-only or are dog-free. This helps balance the needs of the various people and four-leggeds who visit—and keeps certain areas quieter for those who want to take in the natural areas and nooks within the park."

"Located on the bank of the Jordan River, Jordan Park is a green oasis shaded by mature trees and cooled by the nearby waterway. In addition to a full list of common public park amenities, Jordan Park has a bike polo court, a skate park, a greenhouse, an off-leash area for dogs, and The International Peace Gardens. The Peace Gardens was founded as a citizenship project encouraging peace and understanding between nations."

"A popular Chinese restaurant in town, New Golden Dragon serves an array of dim sums, lunch specials, and classic dishes in a casual setting. The restaurant is known for providing quick service and tasty dishes that have certainly set a bar for the Chinese cuisine in the U.S state. New Golden Dragon creates mouth-watering fares at affordable prices and some of the best dishes here are chicken lo mein, black pepper pork chop, and Kung pow shrimp."

"In reality this restaurant should now be called the New New Golden Dragon – the original NGD living life formerly on Main Street before moving to this State Street location some years back. Whatever the name above the door, the restaurant has something for everyone, whether that’s something safe and simple like pan fried noodles, or more traditional, the menu here is broad. We love their funky and fermented salted fish with chicken fried rice."

"This Cantonese leaning restaurant on State Street offers an extensive menu from American-Chinese favorites through to more authentic dishes like the one funky fermented salted fish dish above. The business happily fulfills to go orders and also delivers – directly themselves in a limited area – for free."

"An eatery in downtown Salt Lake City, Charlie Chow’s Dragon Grill is a family-style restaurant known for serving delicious Asian food within a cozy environment. Enjoy tasting the best of Asian fares such as the freshly made dim sums, all-you-can-eat Mongolian barbecue, and a variety of seafood, meat, and vegetables. The restaurant also serves a list of imported, local, and domestic plum wine, white and red wine, beer and sake that accompany perfectly with every meal served here."

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"The spa menu here has a lot of options, the temperature and atmosphere here is always warm and welcoming, and the staff are friendly and attentive. It’s a clean environment where you can feel welcome to come and find some relaxation after a long day or week. They can do a couples massage, deep tissue, Thai massage, hot stone, and several others."

"The Grand Spa is easily one of the best spas in Salt Lake City because it has it all, great service, good prices, convenient hours, good location, and lots of spa services to choose from. It’s easy to reserve your own spa treatment and after you’re done at the spa you could make a plan to visit the indoor or outdoor pools at the hotel nearby, The Grand America Hotel. At this spa you will find true tranquility, gentle and relaxing spa treatments that are better than you will find in most other places."