Liberty Park

Love this park, nice and clean and has great events there. Nice homeless people cursing at you as your leaving haha. Far better than pioneer park. Went there for the food truck face off.

Beautiful park. Salt Lake City’s Central Park.
Spacious, clean and plenty of green space. Lots of activities going on… can’t wait to check out the tennis courts next time… they look brand new and are in excellent condition.
If only Miami had parks like this. Somewhat comparable to Flamingo Park on Sobe but better.

A oasis in the middle of the city. This is a great park to go for a walk, run, check out the aviary, or just chill on weekend. It is very convenient if you live downtown or in the Sugar House area. It is also very well shaded too. If you are driving, you may have to park on the adjacent streets as parking with the Liberty Park loop fills up quick. If you are coming from Denver, this park certainly will remind you of Washington Park (which is one of the most visited attractions).

This park is as good as it gets. We had nice weather over the weekend. (Unfortunately the frostiness returned on Monday.) It was the kind of weather that puts you in the mind to take a walk, skip a rock, or roll down a hill. A lot of people who live in the West associate parks exclusively with summer. Having lived near Central Park, I love an open urban expanse any time of year.
Liberty Park is jumping in the summer. The amusement park, pond, concessions, playground and picnic areas are definitely on point. I regularly take visitors there. Family and friends of all ages — from pre-​school to teens — love this place. (I have a better spot for winter sledding which I may share later. Or not. (Do I want the word to get out???)) Anywho, if you’re looking for something to do this time of year, bring a bagel, grab a coffee, and hang out. Parking is no problem and there is great people-​watching.
It’s light on entertainment at the moment — can’t wait for the Sunday drum circle, tie-​dye t-​shirts for sale, handmade jewelry, and ambitious performers honing their circus talents on tight-​ropes strewn between trees. But still a great way to pass time in the open air.

This park is really well balanced and designed. There are tons of little areas for tennis, volleyball, kids areas, a swimming pool, the aviary. Yet it still feels open and not over crowded with stuff. I’ve never seen a park get so much use. It’s super convenient to run here. The mulch trail is easy on your knees and 2 laps is roughly a 5k.
Something that may need addressed in the near future is the homeless population staying in the park at an increasing rate. In the last 3 months on multiple occasions I myself or someone else has been verbally threatened or outright harassed by an aggressive homeless person. I work as a nurse with this population daily and have tons of patience and compassion. This just isn’t the best place for these folks to go. But that brings up a whole other issue in itself.
Regardless, I’m still in love with this park.

This park is amazing. Whether you are looking for a place to get a workout in, have a picnic, set up a hammock, join a drum circle, or go for a jog, this place has what you need. It is beautiful, well manicured and safe, even at night.

Awesome park located right in SLC – perfect for walking around/​exercising as it’s a totally flat grade and goes around and around, so it is grrrreat. Loved it.

I love this park! It has everything you want in a city park. Pond? Check (with paddle boats, even). Scenery? Check. Lots of space? Check. Oh, and there’s also food, fountains, art, a greenhouse, kid’s play areas, a small amusement park, and an aviary. Great place to spend a few hours on an afternoon to walk your dog, get some exercise, or just people watch. What a gem!

Words cannot describe the love i have for this place. It is such a beautiful park that spans the entire width of a block. My grandma lives across the street so when i was growing up i would just run across the street and play here. There’s seriously so much to do here; you can play on the playground, feed the ducks or rollerblade around the track you literally CAN’T be bored if you’re here, that holds true for both adolescent Jaeyeon and grown-​up Jaeyeon (I’m Jaeyeon).
The #1 thing I love about Liberty park is just how safe I’ve always felt here. In comparison to pioneer park, it’s night and day. Hardly any homeless people, no sketchy people trying to prostitute themselves it’s just always surrounded with children and families.
It’s a great place for social gatherings. Nowadays i come here to have picnics or barbeques with family and friends and it’s always a fun time.

One of the best parks I’ve visited. It’s a great place to hang out at with friends and family. Also it’s a great park for getting some exercise done. They got s great track for people to jog/​run on. And also a great area for those who just want to walk or get on their skate board or roller blades. The lake at the park is beautiful and always fun to watch the ducks around it. Truly a beautiful park and very well kept. Sunday’s are always fun there.

Liberty Park is a very pretty park in Salt Lake City. There’s a pond with lots of birds in it and a merry go round. The aviary is located in the park .I don’t think you’d go here as a tourist unless you’re going to the Aviary but if you are, it’s worth a walk.

Let me say I LOVE THIS PARK! If your just visiting Salt Lake City or you live here, if the weathers nice you owe it to yourself to visit this park. They have just about everything you could ask for in a park. The park covers a good square mile. There is a gigantic kids play area on the Northwest corner. There could be 150 kids playing here and still plenty of room for everyone. You can find picnic tables all throughout the park. If I had to guess I’d say there’s easily over 100 not counting the pavilions. Tracy aviary is one of the coolest bird zoo’s I’ve ever seen. Very nominal price to get in and well worth it! There’s a small amusement ride area with a mary-​go-​round, ferris wheel and 3 other kids rides. You can also rent a small paddle boat and explore the lake if you like. The park has two sidewalks that circle it that are great for pushing a stroller with the kids or getting in a quick jog. There’s also a joggers track on the far outside that is almost like running through the forest. The trail is soft wood chips and is 75% shaded by the large old trees, most of which are over 100+ years old!
I love to do my outside cardio here. One lap around the inside sidewalk is 1.3 miles, if you take the outside sidewalk it’s just over 1.5 miles per lap and the outside running trail is a bit more. Bring your jogging stroller, roller blades or ride you bike!
If you want to play some Frisbee, football, soccer or just do some yoga, there’s more than enough space all over the park! During the summer it’s common to find some sort of festival happening on the weekends with food vendors, bands and face painting for the kids. There’s even a tennis club with a couple dozen courts, 3 sand volleyball courts and a community swimming pool. All but the tennis courts are open to the public at almost anytime. On the east side near the middle there are nearly a dozen grills next to picnic tables and probably half a dozen fire pits! There’s a water play area in the very middle, middle that’s a like a maze of running water the kids just love to play in! Nearby that are horseshoe pits and a basketball court.
I’m sure I’ve missed some things, but you get the idea, your not going to be disappointed if you take family or friends here to spend the day! Best of all, 90% of it is free!

Love this park!
Back when I use to live in Sugar House (Salt Lake City area) I’d come here and walk my dog. I appreciate how they have a paved walk way for those strolling along or meandering and then to the side they have another path of sand for those that take running a little more seriously. To completely walk around the entire park following the path would be approximately 1.5 miles.
There is quite a lot of action that occurs here as well. Within the park there is a mini Aviary on-​site (The Tracy Aviary) which allows you to sight see and introduce yourself to old or new various birds. There is a couple of play areas for kids, many trees for shade, a huge lake, tennis courts and much more I’ve already forgotten.
The grounds are kept nicely clean and maintained. The weather in Salt Lake can often times be unpredictable from hot to cold so come prepared: sunglasses, sunblock, jackets, scarves and so on. When it hits evening it tends to cool down fast and being prepared with a sweater or jacket can be a lifesaver.
The visuals here are beautiful to witness and the park has added a nice variety of amenities for all different age groups. For me it’s also fun to anticipate the various dogs I’ll run into, all so adorable to see and watch. Truly an enjoyable park to visit and experience.

Liberty Park is probably my favorite park in Salt Lake during the summer. We come here all the time. I love having picnics and watching locals play soccer and then walk through the Tracy Aviary. It gets really hot in SLC in the summer, and If you’re wanting to take a dip, but don’t have a pass to a rec center, the pool here is a couple bucks and they keep it clean.

An excellent park by most measures. It is huge. It is right in the city. Parking is plentiful and close. There is a very wide concrete path around, as well as dirt off-​road style running and biking trails. The Tracy Aviary is on-​site. Tons of picnic benches and pavilions. Very well-​kept grounds. One gigantic play area and one smaller one. Nice big trees for shade. A pond and hill for lazing around. This is not to mention the sprawling water feature in the summer time with tons of little channels and water slopes for kids to play in for hours I am not a tennis man but there’s some fine looking tennis courts as well.
It’s mostly all sunshine and giggles here at Liberty Park, but a review wouldn’t he complete without some of the downsides.
1.) It is crowded. During off-​season peak times on weekends and evenings around 6pm, expect there to be tons of people when the weather’s nice. They turn the wide paths into occasional cluster-​fudges on meandering roller-​bladers, and stroller pushing families that feel entitled to take the path entire. Be prepared to shout «on your left!» loud enough to break the earbud bubble world of those in front if you’re on bike or fast feet. In the summer, scores of buses roll up all day long to disgorge 60+ kids a’piece with maybe 5 – 6 adults loosely watching them. Call me captain curmudgeon, but if you’re an SLC summer program making a killing off of beleagured parents in the summertime, why not use that money to run your own program at your facility? The sheer number of kids has a disproportionate impact on the park (trash, destroyed equipment etc.) and the kids are really wild and largely unsupervised. Or, why doesn’t SLC Parks and Rec charge per busload? If you’re going to have 60 kids here for a couple hours, you should be chipping in more for all that wear and tear.
2.) The gigantic playground does not have the best design for toddlers. There are too many places where the flow will either out your kid in the path of danger, or force you to go running around huge obstacles while your kid runs away gleefully through kid sized escape routes. Playground 101: Adults need to be able to see their kids and have relatively quick access to them at all times. See photos with illustrations.
3.) The transient population seems to respect the park, and 99% of the time they are lounging under trees enjoying some peace and quiet. However, I have seen a fellow walking around carrying a huge kitchen knife at 10pm for no apparent reason, and it was a little ah-​hah moment, the inevitable tradeoff between accessability and safety.
4.) There aren’t many nooks or private areas. Coupled with the busyness, it’s hard to get private moments here.
5.) Finally, since it is a big park you’re going to have to contend with groundskeeping virtually all the time. This means lawn mowers, leaf blowers, pressure washers, cranes, trucks, little golf carts zipping around and myriad other sources of noise that come with maintaining such a huge piece of property.
Overall, a blessing to have such a nice asset in the city and a great destination all its own.

I love it here! According to the mapmyrun app the park is about 1.5 miles around. I like to jog or walk around the woodchip path located around the outer perameter of the park. This soft running surface is well kempt amd easy on my knees. The park is so old (este 1883) that it truly has a certain rustic, magical quality about it. It maybe the historical Pioneer House museum, located at the heart of the 80 acre grounds or the towering trees which, historical pictures reveal, lined the adjacent streets as saplings way back when Utahns still made their way around town on a horse and buggy over a dirt road. The park also feature a lovely promenade of sorts which extends the lenth of the park and cuts right through the middle. This ample concrete path is adorned on either side by gorgeous towering trees. On one side of the park you’ll find Sandy volley ball courts and wide open grassy areas, perfect for frisbee, games of catch and picnics. There are also picnick tables and bbq pits throughout the park. There’s a giant stone fireplace on the eastern area of the park and white tables and benches with a checkerboard pattern on the surface, perfect for a game of chess or checkers. The other side of the park boast horse shoe gaming area, tennis courts, an ample playground, wall ball courts, an outdoor swimming pool, carnival rides (carousel, flying chairs, Ferris wheel) and Tracy Aviary home to many exotic animals including peacocks, owls and vultures. Behind the carnival rides there is also a consessions stand where thou can get carnival type food, ice cream, cotton candy, nachos, hot dogs, popsicles and other snacks and beverages. Next to consessions is a ticket stand where you can buy tickets to the rides or to rent some paddle boats. Which brings me to the lake. The lake is located in the south Easter corner of the park and features a variety of ducks, geese to seagulls. The lake also has an island which contains a small gazebo. The area surrounding the park is mostly residential although across the street of the north west corner of the park there is a Beans and Brews coffee shop. Across the street from the north east corner is a chocolate shop. The south west corner a 7 – 11 convinient store and just up the road from there going east, the noctoriously good Park Café.
Throughout the year, but mostly during warmer weather, the park will host various events, fairs and festival.
The one downside for some maybe the drum circle crowd which can range from cool salt of the earth vegan college kids types to «downright trashy maybe even a transient» kind of person (its odd mix of muscicians, ameture muscisians, pot heads, hippies, granola’s and bikers (?). While they are not necessarily bad per se, I can see how their music, smoking, tats, piercings and dress might be off putting to some, especially in a conservative state like Utah. Thankfully they only come out on Sundays when the weather is nice and are mostly confined to the south eastern corner of the park by the lake. Also in the last few years bicycle law enforcement has a more visible presence which is comforting amd seems to do a good Job of keeping transients and undesirable behavior at bay pretty well.

Best park in slc. They have places for running, biking and boarding.
They have multiple kids play areas.
Drum circle on Sunday’s…
Bird aviary
Basketball, tennis horse shoes and more.
Big park. Recommends to all and to all a good play

Do you want a place to try out your brand new top of the line Razor Scooter? Liberty Park is the place to go.
Have you heard that the bird is the word and want to go look at some of the coolest birds from around the world? Get your butt on over to Tracey Aviary at Liberty Park.
Are you out of shape and looking for a fun and relaxed environment to get some exercise? Liberty Park it is again.
Looking for a place to show off that new toned body of yours after all that exercise? Try the sand volleyball courts at Liberty Park.
Looking for a place where your kids can go to feed the ducks? Liberty Park has it.
Family in town and you need a place to take everyone for a picnic? Well good thing Liberty Park is nearby.
Want to beat the sweltering heat with a refreshing splash in the pool? Liberty Park has that too.
Want to sit under a tree and read the latest young adult fiction book that has been turned into a 4 part movie series? There are hundreds of trees to choose from at Liberty Park.
Well what about horseshoes or bocce or tennis or basketball you ask? Yes, Liberty Park has all of those too.
Liberty Park is just the place to be for casual outdoor activities close to downtown… what doesn’t it have?

Best park in SLC! I come here three or four times a week to run on the jogging path. You should know that the path is for people running counter clockwise around the park. Quit trying to be a rebel.

It had been quite a few years since my last Liberty Park romp. It’s always been a wonderful place, but in the past I associated my visits mostly with hippies, wealthy pseudo-​intellectual hippies who are simply pot smoking college students playing dress up, legit homeless folk, and the infamous Sunday drum circles.
These days Liberty Park is really for everyone, young and old. It’s a gathering place — whether you’re there to train for a marathon, enjoy a picnic on the lush grass, watch your kids play the giant chimes in the huge playground, frolic about one of their many hosted outdoor festivals, or view the aviary just footsteps away. The park itself is very large and well maintained. That fear of stepping on a used syringe I had as a teenager became a fond memory. Liberty Park feels clean, safe, hopeful, and eclectic.