The FrontRunner stop Clearfield
The FrontRunner commuter rail stop and the mixed-use center beside it
Clearfield Station, the FrontRunner stop and the center around it
Clearfield Station is two things at one address on State Street near 1200 South. It is the city's FrontRunner commuter rail stop, on the line that runs north toward Ogden and south through Salt Lake City into Utah County. And it is the walkable center Clearfield is building on the transit agency's land around the platform, because the city grew as housing between two federal installations and never got a main street of its own. Beside the train today there is a finished park, the first apartments, and about two miles of new streets. Schedules and fares are UTA's, so check the trip planner for the hours you would ride.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Clearfield Station is the city's FrontRunner stop, and the mixed-use center going in around it. The train is a park and ride stop on UTA's Wasatch Front commuter line: it runs north toward Ogden and south through Salt Lake City and on into Utah County, and the current schedule and fares are UTA's to publish. Around the platform, Clearfield is building the walkable center it never had, on the transit agency's land. What stands today is a finished park called Tower Park, a first phase of 213 apartments over ground-floor retail, and roughly two miles of new streets. The wider center, more homes, offices and shops, is still being built out, so treat what you see standing as the real part and check the city for the rest.
The train
The stop first, because that is the part that already works
Start with the train, because it is the piece of Clearfield Station that is finished and useful today. The platform is a stop on FrontRunner, UTA's commuter rail line along the Wasatch Front, and it is a park and ride: you drive in, leave the car, and ride. From here the line runs north toward Ogden and south through the Davis County stops to Salt Lake City, and on into Utah County. The schedule, the trip times and the fares are UTA's, and they change from time to time, so the honest move is to open the UTA trip planner and price the exact trip you would take, at the hour you would take it.
That last point matters more than any published average. A commute you can live with is one you have actually ridden. If a home near the station is on your list, ride the line once at your real commuting hour before you decide, and note the walk from the platform to wherever you are going at the far end. For a lot of riders here the far end is work along the corridor, and Hill Air Force Base, on the east side of the city, is the region's largest single employer. The base itself sits on its own page; the station is simply one practical way in and out.
The reason the train comes first in any honest description of Clearfield Station is that it is the anchor the rest of the project is built around. The transit agency owns the land, the city partnered to develop it, and the whole idea is a neighborhood you can live in without needing the car for every trip. Whether that idea has fully arrived is a separate question, answered below. The train, at least, is here now.
What stands today
A finished park, the first apartments, and the rest still going in
Clearfield put the public space in first, which is unusual and worth knowing. Tower Park is a roughly 2.25-acre park right beside the platform, with an airport themed play structure, four pavilions and a public restroom, and it opened in 2024. It is the one finished public piece of the development, and because it sits next to the train it doubles as the easiest place in the county to test whether FrontRunner fits a household: park the car, let a child loose on the play structure, and ride once. The planting is young and there is little shade, so in high summer it is a morning or evening park rather than a midday one.
The first homes are up too. The opening residential phase is two mixed-use buildings holding 213 apartments over ground-floor retail, from one to three bedrooms. Underneath all of it is the part nobody sees: about $28 million went into roads, water, sewer and landscaping before a single building went up, including close to two miles of new streets with bike lanes laid on ground that had no streets on it at all. That order, the pipes and the park before the towers, is the honest measure of what building a center from nothing costs.
The rest is still being built out. The plan around the platform is a denser mixed-use center with far more housing, office space, shops, and an announced climbing gym as a commercial anchor, but beyond the first apartments and their ground-floor retail, none of that is standing yet. Programs of this size shift over years, so the useful habit is to treat what is physically there as the real part and to read the city's development projects page for the current state rather than reading a rendering as if it were finished.
What is built so far, in numbers
56+
acres of transit agency land in the project area
$28M
spent on streets and utilities before any building went up
2.25
acres of finished public park, open since 2024
213
apartments in the first residential phase
Why here
Most Utah cities restore a main street. This one is building its first
Set this project beside its neighbors and the difference is structural, not a matter of taste. Farmington has a courthouse and a nineteenth-century grid. Bountiful has a tabernacle and a main street. Kaysville has a run of old houses on one road. Clearfield has none of that, because the decade that shaped it was the 1940s, when it filled in as housing between a naval supply depot on the west and an air field on the east. The story of that depot, and why the city grew from its edges instead of a center, is on the Freeport Center page.
That is a description of a settlement pattern, not a criticism of the place, and it has one direct consequence: there is no historic district here to turn into a walkable center, no block of old shopfronts to reoccupy, and very little pre-war building stock in any quantity. A city in that position that wants a center has to build one, and the largest well-placed piece of land in the middle of Clearfield is the transit agency's ground around the FrontRunner platform. That is the whole reason the center is going in where it is.
Whether it becomes a real center in the end is not knowable yet, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. A park, 213 apartments and two miles of new street is a real beginning and also a fraction of what is drawn. The most useful thing to do with a project at this stage is to go stand in it for half an hour, ride the train once, and read the city's own page for what is actually underway. The Clearfield or Layton comparison carries what an address in this part of the county really asks of a buyer.
Two miles of new road and the pipes under it, laid on ground that had never carried a street, before anyone poured a foundation.
The base on the other side of town
Hill is the far end of a lot of these commutes, and the flight line is on the east side
Hill Air Force Base runs along the eastern edge of Clearfield, and it is the largest single employer in the region, so it belongs in any honest read of this station. For a good number of riders the point of catching FrontRunner here, or of driving the SR-193 corridor off I-15 exit 334, is a job at Hill or somewhere else along the line. The base itself, its gates, its air show, its jobs and its noise contours, is written up in full on the Hill Air Force Base page, and this station page defers to it rather than repeating it.
The one thing worth stating plainly here, because it is a fact a mover deserves and not a selling point, is the noise. The flight line sits on the east side of the city, and jet noise is a genuine part of daily life in Clearfield, more noticeable the closer an address is to that eastern edge. The station and the development sit on the central-to-west side near the freeway, farther from the flight line, but aircraft carry, and the sound is not something a rendering shows you. If you are weighing a home near the station or anywhere in the city, go and stand on the actual street at a few different times of day, including a weekday afternoon, and judge it for yourself.
Getting there
Where it is, and how to arrive by car or by train
The station sits on the west side of State Street near 1200 South, a short distance south of the SR-193 interchange at I-15 exit 334. Coming off the freeway, exit 334 puts you on the corridor a little north of it; from downtown Clearfield the run is straight south down State Street. If you arrive by train, you step off already inside the project area, with Tower Park beside the platform. Parking is a park and ride arrangement set by UTA, so confirm the current capacity and any permit rules with UTA before you build a daily commute around it.
The details
Before you go
- The park is finished and the site around it is not, so expect construction traffic, fencing and half-built streets around a complete public space. It is an unusual thing to walk into.
- This is the county's one spot where a finished public park sits directly beside a commuter rail platform. If you are testing whether the train works for your household, it is the obvious place to do it.
- Check UTA for the schedule and fares before you plan a trip, and check the city's development page before you count on any shop or office that is not yet standing.
If you live nearby
A construction site with a finished park in it, and a train that already runs
For anyone weighing an address within walking distance of the platform, the position is a straightforward trade. What is there now is a working commuter rail stop, a good public park and two miles of new street, with construction around them. What is coming, on the plan, is several years of building followed by a denser piece of city than anything else in Clearfield. Whether that argues for or against a particular street depends on which of those two states you are buying into, and the honest answer is that you are buying into both, in sequence.
The transit piece is the part that is real today and easy to test, which is the whole advantage of a home here. The platform is a short walk from the first apartments, the park is beside it, and half an hour on a weekday morning tells you more than any frequency table. Being able to test a train commute on foot, in a Utah city this size, is genuinely unusual, and it is the concrete thing this location offers a buyer right now.
The rest is the boring but load-bearing advice. Development plans of this size change, phases slip, tenants move and unit counts get revised, and none of that reaches a property listing quickly. Read the city's own development page before relying on anything, treat renderings as renderings, and if you are comparing this against a home elsewhere in the area, the Clearfield or Layton page and the Clearfield city guide carry the price and market side this page leaves alone.
Scott Buehler
Moving Utah About Scott
Quick answers
Clearfield Station, answered
It is two things at one address on State Street near 1200 South. First, it is Clearfield's FrontRunner stop, the commuter rail platform on the Utah Transit Authority line that runs the Wasatch Front. Second, it is the mixed-use center the city is building on the transit agency's land around that platform. Clearfield never had a historic main street, so the plan is to build one here, next to the train. What stands today is a finished park, the first apartments, and about two miles of new streets.
North toward Ogden and south through Salt Lake City and on into Utah County. FrontRunner is UTA's commuter rail line along the Wasatch Front, and Clearfield Station is one stop on it. The current schedule, trip times and fares are published by UTA and change from time to time, so check the UTA trip planner for the days and hours you would actually ride.
Yes. Clearfield Station is a park and ride stop, so most riders drive in, park, and catch the train. Parking availability and any permit rules are set by UTA, so confirm the current arrangement with UTA before you rely on it for a daily commute. The station sits just off State Street, a short distance south of the SR-193 interchange at Interstate 15 exit 334.
That is a UTA question, and the honest answer is to check the trip planner rather than trust a number that may be out of date. FrontRunner runs south from Clearfield through the Davis County stops to Salt Lake City, and UTA publishes the current run time and schedule for the trip. If a specific commute time matters to a home decision, ride it once at the hour you would travel.
It serves commuters heading all over the region, and Hill Air Force Base, on the east side of the city, is the area's largest single employer, so the station is a practical way in for people who work there and elsewhere along the line. The base itself, its gates, its flight line and its jobs, is covered on the Hill Air Force Base page rather than here.
It is the finished public park beside the FrontRunner platform, about 2.25 acres, with an airport themed play structure, four pavilions and a public restroom. It opened in 2024 and it is the one completed public piece of the development so far. Because it sits right next to the train, it is the easiest place in the county to test whether the FrontRunner works for a household: park, play, and ride once. The planting is young and there is little shade, so in high summer it is a morning or evening park.
No. What stands today is the infrastructure, Tower Park, and a first residential phase of two mixed-use buildings with 213 apartments over ground-floor retail. The wider mixed-use center, more apartments, offices, shops and an announced climbing gym, is still being built out and is not standing yet. Because programs like this change over years, check the city's development projects page for the current state rather than treating a rendering as finished.
Because it does not have an old one to restore. Clearfield grew as housing between two federal installations in the 1940s rather than out from a town center, so there is no historic main street here and very little pre-war building stock. A city in that position that wants a walkable center has to build one, and the largest well-placed piece of land in the middle of Clearfield is the transit agency's ground around the FrontRunner platform. That is why the center is going in there.
Hill Air Force Base runs its flight line on the east side of Clearfield, and jet noise is a real part of daily life in the city, more noticeable the closer you are to the east side. The station and the development sit on the central-to-west side near Interstate 15, but aircraft carry, so anyone weighing an address here should visit at a few different times of day. The base and its noise are covered in full on the Hill Air Force Base page.
The train is real today, and the rest is worth watching in person
The useful way to read Clearfield Station is to treat what stands as the real part and to go stand in it for half an hour. The platform is real, the park is real, the first 213 apartments are real, and the streets are in. The wider center is still going up, so ride the train once at your own commuting hour, walk the street you are considering, and read the city's development page rather than a rendering. Tell me what you are weighing, and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who is watching this build, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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