Historical Marker · No. 2135
Cotten Park
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County · Utah
Erected by NA
This small park keeps a private name public. It is dedicated to Ida M. Cotten, who lived on this ground and raised her family here, and who, by the plaque's account, gave her life over to the care of the neighborhood around her. When the property became a park, the city let it carry her name and, in a sentence, her reputation: that the park continues her tradition. It is a modest patch of playground and green, but it remembers a particular woman — not a founder or a general, just a good neighbor.
Where it stands
40.73082, -111.88236 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Liberty Park — 1.0 miSalt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
- Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.1 miA surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
- International Peace Gardens — 2.4 miA hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
- Salt Lake City — 2.8 miUtah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
More markers nearby
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- Others Who Came — 0.3 mi
- First Encampment Park — 0.3 mi
- Wilford Woodruff's Farm 1850 — 0.4 mi