E-scooters in Salt Lake City: Lime, Veo, Spin on campus, the rules and where to park

Which e-scooter apps work in Salt Lake City?

The City’s Shared Mobility page, updated on 19 August 2026, names “e-scooters from two companies: Veo and Lime”, besides GREENbike bike share. A third company runs on the University of Utah’s campus:

• Lime, in the Lime app, under contract with the City since 2021.
• Veo, in the Veo app. KSL reported that Veo began a five-year agreement with the City on 22 July 2026, replacing Spin and joining Lime.
• Spin, in the Spin app, on the campus under a partnership with the University. Spin’s open data names Bird Rides, Inc. as its operator.

At 9:41 a.m. on Monday 26 October 2026 the Salt Lake City map counted about 2,350 e-scooters, some 1,770 Lime, 305 Spin and 275 Veo: what stood there at that moment, not the fleets. The South Salt Lake map, a separate city, counted about 120 more, almost all Lime.

Ten minutes later, on the Census Bureau’s boundaries, all 305 available Spin scooters stood in Salt Lake City, 289 of them on the campus. Of Veo’s 281 available scooters, 271 stood in Salt Lake City, 6 in South Salt Lake and 4 in West Valley City.

The map shows standing e-scooters only: Lime’s with their charge, Veo’s with the range left, Spin’s with both. It leaves out Veo’s seated scooter, which KSL called the Cosmo and Veo’s open data lists as an electric bicycle (about 670 that morning), and any Spin e-bikes, which the University’s page mentions. Scooters on a ride aren’t shown. First ride? See how to rent an e-scooter.

How much does electric scooter rental in Salt Lake City cost?

On 26 October 2026 Veo’s open data priced a ride at $1 to unlock and $0.45 a minute, plus tax: $5.50 for 10 minutes, before tax. That is more than the 39 cents a minute KSL said Veo typically charges elsewhere, and than it charges in Denver.

Lime’s and Spin’s prices are in their apps; Spin’s open data for the campus lists none. The City says Lime and Veo offer discounted passes to eligible residents: Lime Access and Veo Access.

Salt Lake City e-scooter rules: age, helmets, speed and fines

Utah law treats a scooter much like a bicycle; the City, the University and the companies add their own rules.

Utah lets cities allow scooters on sidewalks, but not hold shared-scooter riders to stricter rules than riders of their own scooters or bicycles.

Downtown sidewalks and Temple Square

Ride in the street downtown. “Riding on the sidewalk is not allowed downtown,” the City’s Shared Mobility page says. “If you’re on an e-scooter or bike, stick to the street.”

Downtown is the area shaded grey on the City’s Bikeways Map. On its border streets, the City’s bicycle laws page (updated on 10 February 2026) bars cyclists only from the inner sidewalk: on 200 East they may ride the east sidewalk but not the west one.

Elsewhere the City’s pages don’t say plainly whether scooters may use the sidewalk: the bicycle laws page lets cyclists ride there, while a March 2025 bulletin from City Council District 5 says “Sidewalk riding is prohibited.” Stay on the street or in a bike lane.

Temple Square. The City’s Cycle the City route, updated on 6 February 2026, says: “You must dismount and walk your bike through the square itself.” Neither it nor Temple Square’s FAQs mention scooters: walk yours through to be safe.

Where to park a Lime or Veo scooter in Salt Lake City

The City asks you to park between the sidewalk and the curb, “where you might see a bench or a trash can, but not blocking pedestrian walkways”. Never park:

• next to a bike rack, a lamp post or another street pole, or a UTA bus stop sign;
• on a sidewalk where the scooter blocks ADA access or the flow of people;
• within 50 feet of a GREENbike station;
• at a UTA bus or train stop, or in a parking space for vehicles.

Report a badly parked scooter in the MySLC app or at myslc.gov, as the District 5 bulletin suggests.

Zoomed in to the streets, the map draws the zones Spin publishes: no-ride areas on and around the campus, and the whole campus shaded no-parking. Spin rides there end only in the white boxes shown in the Spin app, not on the map. The map has no Lime or Veo zones: check their apps.

Scooters at the University of Utah

The University’s Commuter Services page, updated on 5 October 2026, sets the rules for Spin on campus:

• Park in a white box painted on the pavement and shown in the Spin app, “or you will continue to be charged for your ride”.
• Never indoors: no riding or parking in any University building.
• 10 mph on campus sidewalks, where Spin slows its scooters. Yield to people walking.
• Fines for breaking the safety and parking rules, and lost ride privileges for repeat offenders.

Can you leave campus on a Spin? The same page says Spin’s scooters are “licensed to operate in Salt Lake City, allowing you to ride to and from campus”. But the City’s page names only Veo and Lime, and in July KSL reported, citing a City spokeswoman, that Veo was replacing Spin. On 26 October 2026 Spin’s open data drew a no-ride band all round the campus. Plan to start and end a Spin ride on campus.

Parks and trails: Liberty Park, the Jordan River and the Foothills

• The Foothills. The City’s parks pages say “electric scooters” are “strictly prohibited in the Foothills” trail system.
• The Jordan River Parkway Trail is a multi-use trail. The City’s page on it says “There is currently no ordinance for e-bikes on the Jordan River Trail” and asks everyone to ride with caution.
• Liberty Park. The City’s parks pages give no scooter rule for it. At 9:51 a.m. five Veo scooters stood inside it.

TRAX, FrontRunner, GREENbike and the airport

UTA’s rider rules let scooters be carried on board if they stay “under the control of the rider at all times”, and ban riding them on TRAX and FrontRunner platforms. The City forbids parking a shared scooter at a bus or train stop, so end your ride nearby and walk on.

GREENbike, which the City calls Utah’s nonprofit bike-share service, is run by GreenBike Utah and had 57 stations in Salt Lake City on 26 October 2026; you rent it in the BCycle app. A single trip costs $3.50 for 60 minutes and a day pass $11, plus $5 for each hour past the hour. The map doesn’t show it.

Salt Lake City International Airport’s pages offer TRAX’s Green Line and a 2.8-mile trail for bikes and people on foot from North Temple at 2500 West, open from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. (7 a.m. to 7 p.m. from November to January). They don’t mention scooters. At 9:51 a.m. no Veo scooter stood on the airport’s land; the nearest stood just outside its eastern edge.

Did you know?

• Scooters since 2018. The first shared scooters reached Salt Lake City in July 2018, the City says. In May 2021 FOX 13 reported that the City had signed contracts with Lime and Spin and begun painting scooter parking spots on Main Street.
• Fewer scooters, fewer miles. KSL, citing City data, reported over 278,000 trips and 284,090 miles in 2025, with half as many scooters as in 2023, when riders logged over 1 million miles.
• Discounts few knew. In the City’s December 2025 survey, 27 of the 58 people who had ridden a shared scooter didn’t know discounted programmes existed; one used one.