Map of Taylorsville
Street tiles load from OpenStreetMap when opened. The blue line shows the 2025 Census boundary.
- State
- Utah
- Population · July 2025
- 57,484
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Water area
- 0.0 sq mi
Taylorsville combines the Salt Lake Valley's numbered street grid with a river corridor, a college campus and a growing civic arts setting. Redwood Road is a useful reference for the college and older community landmarks. Farther east, Millrace Park connects outdoor recreation to the Jordan River Parkway. The City Hall area has its own focus at Centennial Plaza, where public sculpture and performance space link civic life with the arts. These anchors make the local map more meaningful than a list of intersections alone.
Redwood Road and the college campus
Salt Lake Community College's Taylorsville Redwood Campus is at 4600 South Redwood Road. The campus name matters because the college operates several locations across the valley. A class, meeting or student service appointment at Redwood belongs to this particular campus, rather than to the South City, Jordan or other branches.
The street address places the campus within the numbered grid, but the college also uses building names and room codes. The Student Center, for example, houses several student account services. Once the trip reaches Redwood Road, the campus plan becomes the more useful scale of navigation. A parking area, a building entrance and an office can occupy separate stages of the same arrival.
Nearby, the municipal park inventory lists a community park at 4750 South Redwood Road. This proximity gives the corridor more than an educational role: college activity and public recreation share the same larger street setting. The numbered addresses also make the north-south relationship easier to understand without relying on estimated travel times or a generalized neighborhood label.
A house preserving community history
The Taylorsville-Bennion Heritage Center stands at 1488 West 4800 South. It preserves local history in a former home rather than a purpose-built civic monument. The city credits longtime volunteers with helping turn a family property into a museum and maintaining its stories and collections over many years.
This setting offers an intimate perspective on the community. Household surroundings and local artifacts can reveal a scale of life that is less visible at a large campus or along a major commercial road. The center's stated purpose includes community and family heritage, connecting the building itself with the histories it holds.
Its 4800 South location is useful when combining the museum with other stops along the Redwood corridor. The heritage center and college are different institutions with different visiting arrangements, but the street grid places them within a legible local framework. The museum grounds are also part of the experience, giving the preserved house a setting beyond the rooms inside it.
Millrace Park and the Jordan River
Millrace Park introduces Taylorsville visitors to the Jordan River Parkway from the 5400 South and 1150 West area. Salt Lake County lists a trailhead here along with picnic pavilions, courts, play facilities and an enclosed dog park. The combination makes the park both a destination for staying in one place and a starting point for a longer walk or ride.
The river route has a different geometry from the surrounding grid. It follows the water and connects with neighborhood approaches, so the path's course cannot be inferred simply by extending a straight numbered street. The city describes paved and equestrian trail components within the wider system. Identifying the route appropriate to the activity is part of understanding this linear landscape.
Dogs must remain leashed on the river trail; the enclosed Millrace dog area is the local exception. That distinction lets a visitor combine different activities without assuming the entire parkway has the same rules. A picnic, a visit to the fenced enclosure and a riverside walk can share a starting area while using different portions of the grounds.
Sculpture and performance around City Hall
Centennial Plaza creates a public arts setting in Taylorsville in front of City Hall. Opened in 2021, it connects the municipal building with the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center through landscaped grounds, lighted paths, an outdoor stage and a natural amphitheater.
The Plaza +ART program places sculpture throughout this shared space. Some works are permanent and others rotate, so the setting remains recognizable while the collection changes. This is an outdoor art walk rather than a gallery visit confined to a single building. The relationship between the paths and individual works invites people to move through the civic grounds at their own pace.
The plaza offers a contrasting local experience to the river and the heritage center. Here, a performance or sculpture walk organizes the visit around contemporary public space. Along the river, the water determines the route; at the preserved house, domestic history provides the focus. Together with the college, these places describe the city's educational, environmental, historical and civic life through specific destinations that a visitor can locate and explore.
Map and statistics: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Gazetteer, January 2025 generalized place boundaries and Vintage 2025 population estimates. Local references: Salt Lake Community College; City of Taylorsville; Salt Lake County. Article prepared by Maps & Directions.