Silver Springs Park City Neighborhood Guide

Most of Park City is built on a hillside. Silver Springs is built around water.

Tucked off State Route 224 between Canyons Village and Kimball Junction, Silver Springs is the rare Park City neighborhood that trades slope for shoreline. Two private lakes sit at its center — Silver Willow Lake and Silver Willow Pond on the plat maps, though no one here calls them that. To residents they are simply Big Lake and Little Lake, ringed by homes, mature cottonwoods and willows, and a network of quiet, flat streets that feel more like a lakeside village than a mountain resort. On summer mornings the water belongs to paddleboards and kayaks. In winter it belongs to the mountains reflected in it.

Silver Springs took shape in the 1980s and early '90s, and it shows in the best ways: full-grown trees, generous lots, established landscaping, and a design code that kept the architecture cohesive without making it uniform. Homes here are primarily single-family, running from roughly 1,600 to 4,300 square feet with three to six bedrooms, joined by a handful of townhome and condominium enclaves for buyers who want the lifestyle with less to maintain. Many have been extensively renovated over the last decade. Nearly all of them sit on flat, usable ground — and about half sit within HOAs that allow a fenced yard, something almost unheard of elsewhere in Park City.

The amenities are what set the neighborhood apart. Residents share a two-acre lake park with a small beach, a picnic pavilion and grill, volleyball and basketball courts, and a large playground — plus a second playground and two gated tennis courts in the neighborhood's interior. The lakes themselves are reserved for Silver Springs homeowners, with two boat launches and storage for non-motorized craft.

Step beyond the neighborhood boundary and the recreation keeps going. The McLeod Creek Trail runs along the eastern edge, connecting to Willow Creek Park's three playing fields, tennis and pickleball courts, dog park, and a pond that doubles as an ice rink in winter. Matt Knoop Memorial Park and Summit Community Gardens are a short ride away. And on the north side, the neighborhood's Ranch Place enclave backs directly onto the Swaner Preserve — 1,200 acres of protected wetland and sagebrush hills, ten miles of trails, and a resident population of moose, elk, sandhill cranes, and more than ninety bird species.

Then there is the location. Canyons Village is about five minutes away, Park City Mountain's base roughly ten, Deer Valley about fifteen, and the Utah Olympic Park five. Redstone's shops and restaurants at Kimball Junction are a walk or bike ride down the trail. I-80 is minutes from the entrance, which puts Salt Lake City and its international airport within about forty minutes — close enough that a meaningful share of residents commute.

That combination explains who lives here. Silver Springs is overwhelmingly primary residences — families who chose it for Parley's Park Elementary (which sits inside the neighborhood), for the Park City School District, and for streets where kids ride bikes to the lake. Nightly rentals are not permitted, which keeps the neighborhood quiet and the buyer pool focused on people who intend to stay. It is one of the reasons homes here rarely linger: through mid-2026, Silver Springs ranked among the fastest-moving submarkets in the Park City area.

For buyers who want Park City's recreation, schools, and proximity without the hillside driveway or the resort-corridor turnover, Silver Springs is where the search usually ends.

Big Lake and Little Lake — formally Silver Willow Lake and Silver Willow Pond — are private to the Silver Springs community: no public access, no motors. Big Lake anchors the North Shore and South Shore enclaves and the community park; Little Lake, about five acres, sits quieter to the south. Kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, and pedal boats launch from two designated areas with lock-up storage. Homes on the water are the neighborhood's most coveted addresses; homes a block back still get the trees, the trails, and the quiet.