The big week Clinton
Six days, five venues, four published prices, and two parades fifteen minutes apart
Six days in June, and the one this city has to hold in another county.
Clinton's city celebration ran Monday 8 to Saturday 13 June 2026, six days rather than a weekend, across five separate venues. Only four items in the whole roster carried a price, from $8 for a plate at the barbecue to $320 for the golf. The Saturday runs two parades a quarter of an hour apart and closes with fireworks at 9:45 at night. And the free family swim night was at the Roy Aquatic Center in Weber County, because this city's facility system lists no pool, no splash pad and no water feature at all.
Clinton is at the top corner of Davis County, four hours and a mountain range from the ground I actually work, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is issued: the city's own facility records, history page, secondary water page, special events calendar and fire department pages at clintoncity.net, including its published insurance classification and the four orienteering course documents it hosts; the Utah State Historical Society's account of the town; the state roads layer and the municipal boundary layer at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center; the United States Census geocoder; and the Division of Wildlife Resources community fisheries list. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
When is the big week here, and how much of it actually happens inside the city?
It ran 8 to 13 June 2026, six days rather than a weekend, and it is over. As this page was written on 20 August 2026 the city's own event page still carried the full 2026 schedule and no dates at all for the following year, so nothing here should be read as upcoming. The shorter answer to the second half of the question is that a fair amount of it does not happen in Clinton. The city's published roster names five venues and two of them are outside the municipal boundary, one of those in a different county.
That is the fact that makes this a page rather than a paragraph, and it is not a criticism. A city of 23,386 people with no aquatic facility of any kind held its free family swim night at the Roy Aquatic Center, which is across the north line in Weber County, and published it that way on its own schedule. The golf tournament was at a course the city names and does not locate. The art and photo show was in the recreation building, the pickleball tournaments were at Meadows Park, and everything else, which is most of it, was at the Civic Center park on 2300 North.
One thing about the name before the schedule. The city publishes the week as Clinton Heritage Days, and the neighbouring city of Syracuse runs an event under that same shared title in the same month, which is why this page is named for the shape of Clinton's rather than for the title both of them use. The two overlap by exactly one day: Clinton's last day, Saturday 13 June, was the first day of Syracuse's. The two cities are about eight miles apart, they are not adjacent, and the events are different shapes. This page narrates Clinton's and only Clinton's. The Syracuse city guide is the place to start for the other one.
The week, in numbers
6
days, from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 June 2026
5
venues, two of them outside the city
9:45
both the bike parade and the fireworks, twelve hours apart
$320
the top published price, and the golf tournament's
The record
Six days laid out as the city published them, with the venue and the price on every line that has one.
This is the 2026 roster as the city's own event page carried it on 20 August 2026, after the event. It is here because it is the only complete published account of what this city's big week actually consists of, and because the version on the practical city guide is a year out of date and names six activities that are not on it.
| Day | What ran | Where | What it cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 8 June | Golf tournament at four in the afternoon, and an art and photo show from eleven in the morning to eight at night with public voting | Cranefield Golf Course, and the Clinton Recreation Building | $320 for the golf. The art and photo show was free |
| Monday 8 June | Pickleball, the 3.0 tournament, at six in the evening | Meadows Park pickleball courts, 575 West 2300 North | $30 per team of two, registered between 13 April and 1 June |
| Tuesday 9 June | Pickleball, the 3.5 tournament, at six in the evening | Meadows Park pickleball courts | $30 per team of two |
| Wednesday 10 June | Family swim night, half past six to half past eight | Roy Aquatic Center, in Weber County | Free, with a wristband collected in advance at the recreation office, six per group, Clinton residents only |
| Thursday 11 June | Car show five to eight, a band at half past five, a community barbecue at six, a circus act at eight, plus foam, inflatables, a spider jumper and a photo camper from five to nine | Civic Center Park | $8 a plate for the barbecue, first come first served until the food ran out. Everything else free |
| Friday 12 June | Vendors from half past four, a band at seven, foam and inflatables and a games machine from five to nine, and a film at dusk | Civic Center Park | Free. The film was Zootopia 2, at about nine in the evening |
| Saturday 13 June | A 5K and two mile walk at seven, a children's dash at eight, a bike parade at 9:45, the parade at ten, and fireworks at 9:45 at night | The parade lines up at 1800 North 1000 West; bike parade riders check in at Veterans Park; the fireworks are at Civic Center Park | The parade was free, with registration open from 1 April to 6 June. Entry for the runs was published as still to be confirmed |
| Not held | A melodrama, cancelled by the city for lack of performers, with a contact address published for anybody interested in future ones | Would have been part of the programme | Not applicable |
From the city's own event page, checked in August 2026, which still carried the complete 2026 schedule after the event and published no dates for the following year. Two entries on that page were still marked as not yet confirmed in August 2026, one performer slot on the Friday and the entry fee for the Saturday runs, which is a fair indication that the page is a working schedule rather than an archive. The practical city guide on this site prints a 2025 date and lists a quilt show, carnival rides, disc golf, basketball, cornhole and three on three soccer, none of which appears on the 2026 roster above.
The Saturday, which is the day the whole week is built toward
It starts early and it starts with running. A 5K and a two mile walk go off at seven in the morning from the Civic Center park, and a children's dash follows at eight. Both carry a person's name in their published title, which is the kind of small civic detail a city keeps and a listing site never picks up.
Then two parades, and this is the signature that belongs to Clinton alone. A bike parade rolls at 9:45, with riders checking in at Veterans Park on 1000 West, and the ordinary parade follows fifteen minutes later at ten, lining up at 1800 North and 1000 West. Parade registration ran from 1 April to 6 June or until the spots filled, and it was free. Two parades, a quarter of an hour apart, on a single Saturday morning, in a city with no downtown to run them through.
The day closes at 9:45 in the evening with fireworks over the Civic Center park, which is the same clock time as the bike parade and twelve hours later. The whole of the city's biggest day therefore fits between two events at 9:45, and it happens on a park campus that sits on the same street as City Hall, the police station and the fire station.
The details
Getting there
The Civic Center campus sits on 2300 North between 1500 West and the recreation building, which puts it two minutes from City Hall and about the same from the police and fire stations further down 1500 West. Coming into the city, 2300 North runs east to west across the northern half of the grid and meets 2000 West, which is SR-108, a few blocks to the west. The parade forms up a mile south of the park at 1800 North and 1000 West, which is the junction of SR-37 with one of the older north to south alignments.
Before you go
- The 2026 event is over. No dates for the following year are published anywhere, and the city's own page is the only place they will appear when they do.
- The city calls this campus by at least five different names across its own documents, including Civic Center, Civic Center City Park, Civic Center Park and Civic Center Softball Complex. They are all the same ground at 2300 North 1500 West.
- Only four items in the whole published week carried a price, which makes this an unusually cheap city celebration. The swim night, the parade, the film, the foam and the fireworks were all free.
- The pickleball courts at Meadows Park are the tournament venue rather than the Civic Center, which is worth knowing if you turn up on the wrong street.
The venues
A city with no pool at all holds its swim night in the next county and publishes it that way.
The structural fact about this celebration is that it does not fit inside the city. Five venues carry the six days: the Civic Center park, the recreation building, Meadows Park, a golf course, and the Roy Aquatic Center. The last of those is in Roy, which is across the north line in Weber County, and it is on the schedule because Clinton has no aquatic facility of its own to use.
That is not an inference. All fifteen of the city's numbered facility records were checked in August 2026 and not one lists a pool, a splash pad, a spray pad or any water feature, and the recreation department publishes no aquatic programme of any kind. The city's own amenity vocabulary across those records runs to baseball and softball, basketball, boweries, electrical, fishing, kitchen, orienteering course, playground, restrooms, tables, tennis, volleyball, walking trail, water and wildlife watching, and Water appears on exactly the records that also list restrooms, where it plainly means a supply rather than a feature. The facilities page is the place to check it.
So the practical city guide's line about a splash pad running in summer, with a parenthetical suggesting the reader confirm which park hosts it, has an answer, and the answer is negative. The facility system lists none. The honest way to say that is that the city's own facility system lists no splash pad, spray pad or pool, which is a statement about the published record rather than a flat denial, and a phone call to the recreation department on 801-614-0780 would close it either way.
The other outside venue is the golf course. The city names it on the schedule and does not give it an address, and the schedule does not say which municipality it is in, so nothing here says it is outside the city. What can be said is that the entry was $320, which is by a very wide margin the most expensive published item in the week and about forty times the price of a plate at the barbecue.
None of this touches the county family weekends page, and that is deliberate. That page prices and seasons the county's paid days out for all fifteen cities. This one is a single city's six day week with published dates, venues and prices, and it stops at the city line, or rather it stops a little past it. The county page is where the wider comparison lives.
Five venues, six days, and the free family swim night is in another county because there is nowhere in this one to hold it.
The rest of the year
Two identical runs seven months apart, a bowling alley on the same Saturday, and a booking morning in January.
The June week is the biggest thing the recreation department does and it is not the only thing. The city's special events page, checked in August 2026, carries seven dated events for the year and three of them had already happened. An Easter Hop on 4 April, ten to half past eleven in the morning at the recreation building, free, with a $15 vendor slot open from January to March. A Spring Surprise 5K and two mile walk on 11 April at nine in the morning, $15, with packet pick up across two published windows on the two preceding days. And the June week itself.
Four were still ahead. The Halloween Walk on 5 October, six to eight in the evening at the Civic Center softball complex, free, with pumpkins carved by local elementary students lighting the route and a vendor slot at $20 whose booking window ran from 3 August to 2 October, which means it was open on the day this page was written. The Turkey Trot on 14 November at nine, a 5K or a two mile walk, $15, with registration from 22 September to 12 November and packet pick up on the 13th. The Turkey Bowl on the same Saturday at a bowling alley in the city, $40 a lane for up to six players with shoes included, in three one hour slots from ten in the morning, registering from 1 September to 9 November. And the Blitzen Bash on Monday 7 December, six to eight, free, indoors and outdoors, with vendors paying a $50 deposit of which half is refunded after the event if the park rules are kept and the vendor checks in.
Two patterns in that list are worth pointing at because they are genuinely specific to this city. The first is that the recreation department runs two identically shaped and identically priced running events seven months apart, a 5K or a two mile walk at nine in the morning for $15, once in April and once in November. The second is that it stacks the November run and the bowling event on the same Saturday, so a household can do a 5K in the morning and a lane at ten and be finished by lunchtime.
And then the rule that governs everything outdoors. The city's bowery rental record publishes that reservations for the five parks with rentable pavilions are taken at the recreation department beginning the first working day of the calendar year for that year, and that rentals run from 15 April through 15 October, at $30 for up to five hours in one of two blocks. A city that opens an entire season of bookings on one morning in January is a real, checkable, practical fact, and it is worth knowing in December rather than in May.
Every date, price and window on this page is the city's own annual publication and every one of them moves, and the June roster above describes an event that has already happened. The 2026 week ran 8 to 13 June and is in the past. No dates for the following year exist anywhere, on the city site or off it, and any listing that offers one is guessing. The same applies to the prices: $320 for the golf, $30 per pickleball team, $8 a plate, $15 for either run, $40 a lane, $20 or $50 for a vendor slot and $30 for a five hour bowery block are all annual figures published by the recreation department and none of them is fixed. The registration windows in particular are short and several had already closed by the time this page was written. Check the current position at the city's events page or on 801-614-0780 rather than planning around anything here, and note that the city runs its own separate page for the June week which is where that one is published.
Living with it
One week when the north half of the grid belongs to the parade and the tournaments.
For a household weighing an address here, the practical shape of the June week is that it lands on one campus and one parade route rather than on the whole city. The Civic Center park on 2300 North carries the car show, the vendors, the bands, the foam, the film and the fireworks, so the streets around 1500 West and 2300 North take the traffic and the parking for three evenings running. The parade forms up a mile south at 1800 North and 1000 West and runs on the Saturday morning. If you are within a few blocks of either, you will know about it; if you are out at the west end near the pond, you will not.
The second practical note is that this is a cheap week by any standard. Four priced items in six days, and the two big draws, the parade and the fireworks, are free. That matters more in a city with no commercial centre than it would somewhere with a main street, because there is nowhere else in Clinton for an evening out to happen. The practical city guide is right that the city borrows its bigger nights from Layton, Clearfield, Roy and Ogden, and this is the week when it does not have to.
The third is the pickleball courts, which are at Meadows Park on 575 West 2300 North and are the tournament venue rather than a general amenity during the week. Meadows is one of the two parks with a full amenity list in the city's facility system, alongside the Civic Center, and one of five with a rentable pavilion. The trails page carries the rest of the parks system, including the seven measured walking loops.
What this page does not do is turn into a second county family weekends page. The county topic prices and seasons the paid days out across all fifteen cities and links to the individual ones; this is one city's own week and the accounting stops there. The county hub indexes all seven of the shared subjects.
The wider comparison
Family weekends in Davis County
County outings priced and seasoned in one place, free ones first, written once for fifteen cities.
Read the guideThe parks system
The Rail Trail and the Canal
Eleven named sites, seven measured loops, two named trails and one dog ordinance that disagrees with itself.
Read the guideThe other big amenity
The Clinton Pond
The only water in the city, and the city built it to hold storm runoff.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Clinton
What an address here asks of a household, from two water bills to two state highways.
The mover pageThe practical side
The Clinton city guide
Prices, the ladder and the market conditions, none of which is anywhere on this page.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Fifteen towns on one stretch of the valley, and the seven subjects none of them writes alone.
The region hubKeep reading
The rest of Clinton on The Local.
The founding
The Summit That Became Clinton
Four working names, a ward in 1896, a railroad split in 1916, ninety years in August.
Read the guideThe address
Whose Address Is This
All 1,264 road segments carry another city's grid, another city's ZIP, another post.
Read the guideThe water
The Clinton Pond
A storm detention basin fed by a mile of pipe, aerated on purpose, sampled by the county.
Read the guideThe compass
The Orienteering Course
Nine markers set in concrete, six courses, four documents, and a compass bearing to start.
Read the guideThe paths
The Rail Trail and the Canal
Two named trails, seven measured loops, and an 1884 canal that still bills separately.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Clinton
Two water bills, two state routes, no freeway inside the line, one street of offices.
Read the guideThe companion
Clinton, in full
Ninety years old, on a neighbour's street grid, with its founding farm in the next town.
Read the pageQuick answers
The big week, answered.
The 2026 edition ran Monday 8 to Saturday 13 June and is in the past. The city's own event page still carried the full schedule when it was checked in August 2026 and published no dates at all for the following year, so any listing offering one is guessing. It is a six day event rather than a weekend, it moves across five separate venues, and the city publishes it on a page of its own separate from its general special events calendar. The practical city guide on this site prints a 2025 date, which is a year out.
Across five venues, and two of them are outside the city. Most of the week is at the Civic Center park at 2300 North 1500 West: the car show, the vendors, the bands, the circus act, the foam, the inflatables, the film and the fireworks. The art and photo show is at the Clinton Recreation Building. The pickleball tournaments are at Meadows Park on 575 West 2300 North. The golf tournament is at a course the city names but does not locate. And the swim night is at the Roy Aquatic Center, which is across the north line in Weber County.
Because it has no pool of its own. All fifteen of the city's numbered facility records were checked in August 2026 and not one lists a pool, a splash pad, a spray pad or any water feature, and the recreation department publishes no aquatic programme. The word Water does appear as an amenity, on exactly the records that also list restrooms, where it means a supply rather than a feature. So the city's own June schedule sends its free family swim night across the county line to the Roy Aquatic Center, and publishes it that way, which is the plainest possible confirmation.
Its facility system lists none. Every one of the city's fifteen numbered facility records was checked in August 2026, and no splash pad, spray pad, water feature or pool appears on any of them. The practical city guide on this site says a splash pad runs in summer and suggests confirming which park hosts it on the city's facilities page; that page was checked exhaustively and the answer is negative. The honest form of that statement is that the published facility record contains none, and one call to the recreation department on 801-614-0780 would settle it either way.
Almost nothing, unless you played golf. Only four items in the whole six day roster carried a price: the golf tournament at $320, a pickleball team of two at $30, a plate at the community barbecue at $8, and the entry for the Saturday runs, which the city published as still to be confirmed. The parade, the bike parade, the fireworks, the film, the foam, the inflatables, the games machine, the vendors, the art and photo show and the swim night were all free. Every one of those is an annual figure and none of them is fixed.
Because one of them is for bikes. The city's published schedule puts a bike parade at 9:45 on the Saturday morning, with riders checking in at Veterans Park on 1000 West, and the ordinary parade at ten, lining up at 1800 North and 1000 West. That is fifteen minutes apart, and the bike parade is a genuinely distinctive element rather than a warm up act, with its own check in point in a different park. Parade registration was free and ran from 1 April to 6 June or until the available places filled.
By one day. Clinton's 2026 event ran 8 to 13 June and Syracuse's ran from 13 June, so Clinton's last day was Syracuse's first. The two cities are about eight miles apart and are not adjacent, with West Point holding the ground between them. The events are also different shapes: Clinton's is six days across five venues with a bike parade and a swim night in another county, while Syracuse's is anchored on one park. This page narrates Clinton's only, and the Syracuse city guide on this site is the place to start for the other.
Six other dated events, and the city publishes all of them on one page. An Easter Hop on 4 April and a Spring Surprise 5K and two mile walk on 11 April, both of which have happened. Then a Halloween Walk on 5 October from six to eight at the Civic Center softball complex, free. A Turkey Trot 5K and two mile walk on 14 November at nine in the morning at $15. A Turkey Bowl on the same Saturday, $40 a lane for up to six with shoes included, in three one hour slots. And the Blitzen Bash on Monday 7 December from six to eight, free. All as published by the city and checked in August 2026.
At the recreation department, and the whole season opens on one morning. The city's own bowery rental record publishes that reservations are taken beginning the first working day of the calendar year for that year, that rentals are available from 15 April through 15 October, and that the fee is $30 for up to five hours in one of two blocks, ten in the morning to three in the afternoon or four to nine in the evening. Five parks carry rentable pavilions: Veterans, West Clinton, Meadows, Heritage and the Civic Center. Everything after that January morning is what is left.
Six days, five venues and four prices in the whole week.
This is the one week of the year when a city with no commercial centre does not have to borrow an evening from a neighbour, and it is worth understanding before you weigh a street near either the park campus on 2300 North or the parade route on 1800 North. Three evenings of traffic and parking around the Civic Center, a Saturday morning of closures on the older north to south alignment, and then it is quiet again. Everything on this page is annual, everything moves, and the city's own page is where next year's version will appear. Tell me which streets you are looking at and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this end of the county, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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