Flight Park State Recreation Area, Paragliding and hang gliding state park in northern Utah, United States.
Flight Park State Recreation Area is a state park on the south side of Point of the Mountain, just north of Lehi in northern Utah. It is jointly managed by Utah State Parks and the Utah Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, and is known as one of the best training sites for paragliding and hang gliding. Almost all of the park lies in Utah County, though a tiny section of its northwest corner reaches into Salt Lake County.
Flight Park is jointly managed by Utah State Parks and the Utah Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (UHGPGA), the arrangement that gives the site its official standing. The park occupies the south side of Point of the Mountain just north of Lehi, and its map places almost all of it in Utah County, with a tiny northwest corner reaching into Salt Lake County.
The Utah Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association co-manages the site with Utah State Parks, and its members fly from the south side of Point of the Mountain. The park's reputation as a training site draws pilots who learn and practice there, and the association's involvement ties the flying community directly to the park's operation.
The park lies on the south side of Point of the Mountain, just north of Lehi, with a parking lot at the base of the flying area. A modelport for radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters sits just west of the parking lot. Most of the grounds are in Utah County, though a small northwest corner reaches into Salt Lake County.
Just west of the parking lot lies a modelport for radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters, separate from the hang gliding and paragliding launches. The park is managed jointly by Utah State Parks and the Utah Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association.
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