Riverside Park
Riverside Park is a park in Utah, at a modelled elevation of 1,286 m. Gobblers Knob stands 3,115 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Backman Community Open Space, a park 0.2 miles away. Great Salt Lake Scenic Byway passes 3.0 miles off.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 3.0 mi off the Great Salt Lake Scenic Byway
- 11.7 mi off the Morgan-Parleys State Scenic Byway
- 13.7 mi off the Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway
- 16.8 mi off the Little Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Backman Community Open Space: 0.2 mi
- Rose Park Tot Lot Park: 0.5 mi
- Redwood Meadows Park: 0.5 mi
- Cottonwood Park: 0.5 mi
- Steenblik Park: 0.6 mi
- Rose Park Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Og-woi People's Orchard and Gardens: 0.5 mi
- Fairpark Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Rose Park Neighborhood Center Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Gateway Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- What We Build Together: 0.4 mi
- Dairy Cats: 0.7 mi
- Airplane: 1.3 mi
- Daylight: 1.4 mi
- Red Iguana: 1.4 mi
- Steenblik Park Commemoration: 0.7 mi
- Central Overland Trail - Tooele Branch - Jordan River Bridge: 1.0 mi
- Fur Trappers and Traders: 1.8 mi
- Great Salt Lake Base and Meridian: 2.3 mi
- Marge S. Lowe: 2.3 mi
- Dreamscapes: 1.9 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 2.0 mi
- Deveraux House: 2.0 mi
- Family History Library: 2.3 mi
- Temple Square: 2.4 mi
- Ensign Peak: 2.4 mi
- Twin Peaks: 4.9 mi
- Dude Benchmark: 6.0 mi
- Cave Peak: 6.9 mi
- Mount Wire: 7.2 mi
- #1 - Raspberry: 3.1 mi
- #2 - Hidden Falls: 3.2 mi
- #3 - Cherry Tree Grove: 3.2 mi
- #4 - Box Elder: 3.3 mi
- #5 - Elbow Turn: 3.3 mi
- Land Cruiser Heritage Museum: 1.5 mi
- Discovery Gateway Children's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Clark Planetarium: 2.0 mi
- Rio Grande Depot: 2.2 mi
- Church History Museum: 2.3 mi
- Baskin Spring: 5.2 mi
- Indian Spring: 5.8 mi
- Enoch Spring: 5.8 mi
- Salt Spring: 6.3 mi
- Wagner Spring: 7.1 mi
- Hidden Falls: 15.1 mi
- Moss Ledge Waterfall: 15.6 mi
- Lower Bells Canyon Waterfall: 17.7 mi
- Upper Lisa Falls: 18.0 mi
- Rocky Mouth Canyon Waterfall: 18.1 mi
- Fife Wetland Preserve: 2.6 mi
- H-Rock Open Space: 7.4 mi
- Legacy Nature Reserve: 10.8 mi
- Cougar Park Nature Preserve: 11.2 mi
- Big Bend Habitat Restoration Area: 13.2 mi
- Johnson: 10.5 mi
- Bacchus: 12.0 mi
- Bingham Canyon: 18.7 mi
- Lark: 19.9 mi
- Forest City: 24.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 8.2 mi
- Cambria Point: 20.2 mi
- Honeycomb Cliffs: 21.2 mi
- Black Bluff: 21.6 mi
- Silver Sands Beach: 14.6 mi
- Sunset Beach: 15.6 mi
- Camera Flats: 20.1 mi
- Bridger Bay Beach: 24.7 mi
- Industrial Arch: 2.2 mi
- Hole in the Rock.: 17.8 mi
- Storm Window Arch: 20.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Riverside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gobblers Knob | ESE 121° | 3,115 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Raymond | SE 126° | 3,108 m | 15.0 mi |
| Wilson Peak | ESE 119° | 3,033 m | 15.7 mi |
| Wildcat Ridge | SE 131° | 2,981 m | 13.4 mi |
| South Thayne Peak | SE 127° | 2,980 m | 13.8 mi |
| Mount Olympus East | SE 132° | 2,979 m | 13.4 mi |
| Storm Mountain | SE 140° | 2,901 m | 15.8 mi |
| Grandview Peak | ENE 64° | 2,866 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:04 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:22 | 21:03 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:50 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 16:20 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 37 | 46 | 52 | 62 | 72 | 81 | 79 | 68 | 55 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salt Lake City Intl AP, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel109 obs
- Mallard108 obs
- Garden Snail56 obs
- Seven-spotted Lady Beetle55 obs
- Russian olive51 obs
- European Firebug48 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider44 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse44 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/33063782
Day trips start here
- Salt Lake City · 3 mi
- Sandy · 15 mi
- Wasatch Range · 17 mi
- Draper · 19 mi
- Park City · 24 mi
- Tooele · 26 mi
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