Experiences
Woodward Park City With Kids: A Family Action Sports Day
Kimball Junction · Action sports campus · Year round progression
Dani · 4 min read
Sixty six acres built entirely around getting better at something. Snow in winter, bike park and airbags in summer, and an indoor building that makes a storm day irrelevant.
Why you should go
Woodward Park City sits just off Interstate 80 at Kimball Junction, and it is not a ski resort with a park. It is a year round action sports campus built around progression, roughly sixty six acres of outdoor terrain plus an indoor building full of trampolines, foam pits, skate bowls, and airbag jumps.
In winter the outdoor side runs lifts, a tubing hill, and terrain parks scaled from first timer to genuinely serious. In summer the same hillside becomes a lift served bike park and the indoor building keeps running regardless of weather. It is the only place in the county where a rainy afternoon is not a problem.
The reason families end up here every week is simple. Kids leave tired, proud, and specifically better at something they could not do that morning. Parents get an hour on the deck. That trade is why Woodward is the quiet favorite of full time Park City families rather than a visitor attraction.
The insider details
- Location
- Woodward Park City, 3863 Kilby Road, Park City, UT 84098
- Website
- woodwardparkcity.com
- Campus
- Roughly 66 acres outdoors plus a large indoor action sports building
- Winter
- Lift served terrain parks, tubing, and progression coaching
- Summer
- Lift served bike park, skate, scooter, and airbag progression, indoor and outdoor
- Access
- Day passes, sessions, camps, and lessons. Reserve indoor sessions ahead on weekends and holidays
- Price / Vibe
- $$ to $$$ · energetic · coaching led · all ages · weatherproof
When to go
- Best storm day: the indoor building, when the resorts are windholding and everyone else is stuck.
- Best summer window: morning bike park laps before the heat, indoor session in the afternoon.
- Best first visit: book a coached session rather than an open pass. The progression is the product.
- Best family split: kids in a session, parents on the deck or at Kimball Junction for an hour.
- Weekends and holiday weeks sell out. Reserve rather than arrive.
How to plan it
- If you do one thing
- A coached progression session, then free time to use what they just learned
- Best winter day
- Terrain park laps in the morning, tubing when attention runs out
- Best summer day
- Lift served bike park laps, then the indoor airbags when it gets hot
- Best for teens
- A multi day camp. It is the fastest improvement curve in the valley
- Best finish
- Kimball Junction for food on the way home, ten minutes from the campus
The Cozy Score
- Fun factor9.5
- Exclusivity6.5
- Atmosphere9.0
- Local cred9.4
- Family factor10.0
- Difficulty getting in4.5
Local intel
- The indoor building is the reason this place is a year round answer rather than a seasonal one.
- Kimball Junction and Silver Creek families use Woodward the way other towns use a rec center.
- Proximity to Woodward is a real consideration for buyers with teenagers. It comes up in almost every family tour.
- Camps fill early for summer. Plan those in winter, not in June.
- Ask which neighborhoods put you ten minutes from this campus and still keep you close to a base area.
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