Salt Lake City is a nature-lovers paradise and is dotted with parks and other outdoor recreational facilities. The city has different types of parks that ranges from small neighborhood parks to national parks and those having special features such as camping grounds, hiking and boating facilities and natural beauty. Many of the parks in Salt Lake City are funded by the government. You would also come across a number of privately-owned parkways in the city.

The Liberty Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the city that has a wide area featuring a jogging track, tennis court, a small pond with boating facilities, kid's playground and amusement parkway and picnic spots. It also hosts some of the biggest events and festivals of Salt Lake City.

The other most renowned park is The Place Heritage Park. The objective of this park is to promote the history and heritage of Utah. There are local artisans working on different fields such as carpentry, pottery, metal work and other domestic skills, especially of the nineteenth century.

This is the Place Heritage Park

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There are other recreational and educational parks like the Sugar House Park that are picnic grounds and offer nature studies and sports facilities to school and college students. There is also a mini-amphitheater and a rock climbing area.

Sugar House Park

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You can also catch a glimpse of the Pioneer Park in the Salt Lake City. The municipal park features an agricultural market on Saturday mornings. It is also equipped with volleyball court, an amphitheater and hiking and picnic facilities. You can also walk through the parkway that stretches from downtown Salt Lake and meets at City Creek.

Pioneer Park on Planetware.com

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Overview of Salt Lake City parks

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Some of the best parks in Salt Lake City

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Interesting and innovative recreation options at the entertainment parks and places of interest like Liberty Park, National Park Service, Ensign Downs Park and others have proven to be one of the major sources of recreation for all kinds of visitors to the city. One of the other famous venues includes the Gallivan Center Ice Rink, providing for a wide assortment of games and food options, concerts and outdoor living rooms.

Parks for kids entertainment in Salt Lake City

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Concert parks, art and entertainment in Salt Lake City

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If you are looking to spend a vacation amidst the interesting adventure spots in Salt Lake City Utah, planning your vacation might need you to sort out a certain number of them from the overwhelming greenery that lays spread about most areas in Salt Lake City.

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The Wheeler Historic Farm is another one of the special places that tourists find suitable for kids. Wild ducks, forest cottages, picnic areas and jogging trails are some of the interesting features at this park in Murray, off the Belt Route that connects to Cottonwood Drive.

Wheeler on Yahoo.com

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The National Park Service has launched considerably large facilities for visitors where they can avail an awesome experience of the natural beauty that the surrounding areas of Salt Lake City have to provide. In close proximity with bears, wolves and other wild animals, visitors have a perfectly exalting time as part of their nature-friendly vacations here.

National Parks around Salt Lake City

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