Salt Lake City’s newest park is now open — see where three creeks meet on the west side
Authored by Leia Larsen
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
The Three Creeks Confluence is official open on Salt Lake City’s west-side. The project is the first in a 100-year vision to uncover and restore the Salt lake Valley’s creeks.
Tributaries buried a century ago see daylight again in a new green space along the Jordan River Parkway.
Salt Lake City on Wednesday unveiled its newest park, located where three creeks meet the Jordan River on the west side.
Three Creeks Confluence Park was created in the Glendale neighborhood after unearthing Red Butte, Emigration and Parleys creeks, which had previously been channeled underground to tame nature and facilitate urban development in Utah’s capital.
At a news conference marking the park’s official opening, Mayor Erin Mendenhall called the space a “100-year vision.”
“It’s because we buried these creeks 100 years ago,” Mendenhall said, “and it’s going to take us 100 years to [fully] unbury them.”
Three Creeks Confluence Park marks the start of that unburying, an effort spearheaded by a group of college students in 2014. The movement spurred the creation of Seven Canyons Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring the Jordan River’s seven tributaries running through the Salt Lake Valley.
