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A city that publishes an address for all twelve of its parks and two different bathroom calendars

Canyon Meadows Park, and the eleven other pieces of public ground.

At 631 East Peterson Parkway, at the west end of the city, Canyon Meadows carries a bowery, a playground, a baseball diamond, a basketball court, pickleball courts, a bike track, a train and bathrooms the city opens from 15 April to 15 October. Across town Cherry Farms opens its bathrooms from 1 April to 31 October, which is a different calendar in the same city. Twelve sites in all, about fifty acres, every one with a published address, and one booking counter inside a building that shuts through the middle of the day.

By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated August 2026

I work Southern Utah, which is four hundred miles from the mouth of Weber Canyon, so these pages are researched rather than lived. The facts came off the documents that issue them: the city's history, parks, trails, water and gravel pit pages at southwebercity.gov, its adopted trails plan, its consolidated fee schedule, its annual report, its drinking water report, its tax notice and its signed fireworks statement, plus the Census Bureau geocoder, the state road and place name layers, the federal school directory and the trail charity rebuilding the river bank. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.

The live question


Is Canyon Meadows finished, and why do two city pages disagree about it?

Both pages were checked in August 2026 and they say different things. The city's history page says Canyon Meadows, located on the west end, is currently under construction to bring in new pickleball courts, a tactical bike course, basketball courts and more. The city's parks page lists pickleball courts, a basketball court and a bike track among the amenities that are there, alongside bathrooms open from 15 April to 15 October, a bowery, a playground, a baseball diamond and a train.

A third city document breaks the tie without settling it. The Consolidated Fee Schedule for fiscal 2026 and 2027 prices the Canyon Meadows basketball court at 10 dollars, the pickleball courts at 10 dollars for a two hour booking on each court and 100 dollars an hour for a tournament across all of them, the bowery on the same weekday and weekend rates as the other parks, and a concession stand at 50 dollars with a 300 dollar deposit. A city does not usually publish a booking rate for a court that is not there. So the balance of the evidence is that the parks page and the fee schedule are current and the history page has not been updated, and that is a reading rather than a statement, because no city page publishes a completion date.

The practical answer for a visitor is therefore: go and look, and do not plan a tournament on the strength of a web page. The wider lesson is one this city repeats. Its history page also calls the dog park brand new without giving a year, its festival page carried 2026 dates that are now in the past, and the trail charity working on its river bank publishes updates under season headings rather than dates. Undated pages are the norm here, and the only safe method is to take the year from an anchor inside the text or to print no year at all.

The park system, in numbers

12

named park sites with published addresses

50 acres

of parks the city says it maintains

2

different published bathroom seasons

15 Apr

when the Canyon Meadows bathrooms open

The inventory


Twelve sites, twelve addresses, and a park system with a train in it.

The whole list, from the city's own parks page, checked in August 2026, with the booking rates taken from the fiscal 2026 to 2027 fee schedule. Where a site is bookable the resident weekday rate is given; non resident rates run higher on every line.

SiteAddressWhat the city listsBookable
Canyon Meadows Park631 East Peterson ParkwayBathrooms open 15 April to 15 October, bowery, playground, baseball diamond, pickleball courts, basketball court, bike track and a trainBowery from 20 dollars, basketball court 10 dollars, pickleball 10 dollars for two hours a court, diamond 35 dollars, concession stand 50 dollars
Central Park7355 South 1375 EastBowery, playground, baseball diamond and a stage, which no other city park hasBowery from 20 dollars, stage 50 dollars for a resident
Cherry Farms7994 South 2100 EastBathrooms open 1 April to 31 October, playground and a baseball field. New playground equipment arrived in 2025, credited in the annual report to recreation tax amenity improvementsBowery from 20 dollars, diamond 35 dollars
Posse Grounds675 East Old Fort Road, at 6650 SouthBathrooms, picnic benches, a fire pit and a paddockPicnic area from 15 dollars. The arena carries a plain note that reservations are not allowed
Cedar Cove Park1983 East 7550 SouthPlayground, basketball court and picnic benchesNot listed as bookable
Nathan Tyler Loock Memorial2563 East 8150 SouthA playgroundNot listed as bookable
Veteran's Memorial Park1865 East South Weber DriveNo amenities listedNot listed as bookable
Historic Pioneer Cemetery6855 South 475 EastNo amenities listed. It is administered as one of the twelve sitesNo
Dog Park691 East Old Fort RoadNo amenities listed. The history page calls it brand new without giving a yearNo
Bike Track631 East Peterson ParkwayListed as its own site at the same address as Canyon Meadows ParkBooked as part of the park
Cedar Loop Park1924 East Cedar Loop DriveA retention pondNo
Silverleaf Park2348 East 8240 SouthA retention pondNo

Two of the twelve are retention ponds, which is worth knowing before anyone plans an afternoon around a name on a map. Two more, the cemetery and the dog park, carry no amenity listing at all. The city gives its whole system as approximately fifty acres and publishes no acreage for any individual site, so no acreage appears here. The 2025 annual report records 32,962 acres mowed across the season, which is a cumulative total of mowing passes rather than an area of ground, and 54 hours spent aerating.

The details

Where Canyon Meadows Park, 631 East Peterson Parkway, at the west end of South Weber. It geocodes to the far northwest corner of the city, about a quarter of a mile north of the pioneer cemetery
From City Hall About a mile and a half northwest of 1600 East South Weber Drive, roughly five minutes to drive. An estimate rather than a published figure
Season Open all year. The bathrooms are city published as open from 15 April to 15 October, which is a shorter season than Cherry Farms across town
Cost Free to use. The bowery, the courts, the diamond and the concession stand are bookable, from 10 dollars for a court and 20 dollars for a bowery on a weekday for a resident
Time needed An hour with the playground and the bike track, and a morning if you have booked a court or a diamond

Getting there

The address is where this city's habit of spelling things two ways shows up again. Its own parks page prints 631 East Petersen Parkway for the park and 631 East Peterson Parkway for the bike track, on the same page, for the same address, and the Census Bureau geocoder matches it as 631 East Peterson Parkway. The geocoder's spelling is the one used here. Booking anything at this park means going to the Family Activity Center at 1181 East Lester Drive in person; the city takes park reservations and payment at that counter rather than online.

Before you go

  • Book at the Family Activity Center, not on a website, and expect to pay a deposit at the time of reservation with the balance due when you collect the key.
  • The fee schedule states plainly that refunds will not be issued due to inclement weather. Cancel more than three weeks ahead for a full rental refund, or within three weeks for half.
  • Bathrooms here run 15 April to 15 October. Cherry Farms runs 1 April to 31 October. If you are planning an early April or late October gathering, that difference decides which park you want.
  • The history page still describes this park as under construction. The parks page and the fee schedule both treat the courts as in service. Look before you commit to a court booking.

The counter


One building books every park in the city, and it closes in the middle of the day.

The Family Activity Center at 1181 East Lester Drive is where this city's recreation actually happens, and its opening hours are the most useful single fact about it. The city publishes them as weekdays from five in the morning to half past eight, and again from half past three until ten at night, with Saturday from nine in the morning until ten at night. It is open early, open late and closed through the middle of the working day, and there are no Sunday hours published at all. Anyone planning to walk in and book a bowery at lunchtime on a Tuesday will find the door shut.

Inside it are an indoor track, a weight room and a full size basketball court, plus classes the city names in yoga, jump rope, tumbling, karate, hula dancing and Zumba. The recreation department attached to it maintains eight athletic fields used for soccer, flag football, lacrosse, tee ball and softball, and six baseball diamonds. In a city of about eight thousand people that is a substantial amount of programmed ground, and the 2025 annual report puts numbers against the demand: soccer 431 participants, baseball and softball 282, basketball 246, flag football 124.

The membership and rental structure is published in full and two parts of it are genuinely unusual. The first is a loyalty ladder on facility rentals: 20 per cent off after one year of continuous rental, 30 per cent after two, 40 per cent after three, capped at 40, and in every case the renter must remain in good standing with the city. Municipal recreation departments do not usually run loyalty discounts. The second is a set of standing exemptions: city firefighters and part time employees receive an individual pass at no charge and full time employees and elected officials receive a family pass, in each case while in good standing or while in office.

The ordinary numbers are ordinary and useful. An individual resident pass is 4 dollars daily, 20 monthly, 100 for six months or 150 for the year, with non resident rates a step above each. A family pass runs 7 dollars daily to 240 for the year. There is a 50 per cent discount at 65 and over, and a corporate membership at 800 dollars for a company inside the city limits or 1,000 for one outside, covering up to ten members. Aerobics room and half court gymnasium rentals start at 20 dollars for the first resident hour. Every figure here is from the fiscal 2026 to 2027 fee schedule, which is reissued annually, so check the current one before you budget against it.

Open at five in the morning, shut through the middle of the day, open again until ten at night, and closed on Sunday. One counter, twelve parks.

Two city pages disagree about what is built at Canyon Meadows, and neither of them carries a date. As of 16 August 2026 the city's history page describes the park as currently under construction for new pickleball courts, a tactical bike course and basketball courts, while the city's parks page lists those amenities as present and the current fee schedule prices them for booking. This page does not resolve that as fact in either direction, because no city page publishes a completion date and the two pages are equally official. Look at the ground before booking a court, and treat every undated city sentence here the same way, including the one calling the dog park brand new. The rates and seasons above are from a fee schedule that is reissued each fiscal year and a parks page that has already been out of step with another city page once.

Living with it


A small city with more programmed ground than its population would lead you to expect.

The honest summary of recreation in South Weber is that the city carries it rather than the county or a private operator, and it publishes the whole thing. Twelve sites, about fifty acres, eight athletic fields, six baseball diamonds, an activity centre with a track and a weight room, and a fee schedule that prices every last bowery and court. A household comparing this city with a larger neighbour on retail or restaurants will find it thin. A household comparing it on public ground per resident will find the opposite.

What it does not have is a swimming pool, an aquatic centre or an indoor arena, and this page is not going to imply otherwise. The nearest facilities of that kind are in the neighbouring cities and they belong to those cities' pages. It also has no county recreation centre inside the boundary. The activity centre is the whole indoor offer, and its split weekday hours are the single most practical thing to know before you organise a family week around it.

For a buyer, the useful checks are small. Which park is actually within walking distance of the street you are considering, because two of the twelve are retention ponds and two more carry no amenities at all. Which bathroom season applies if you use a park in early spring or late autumn. And whether the recreation programme your household would use is one the city runs directly, because a consistent ten dollar non resident premium runs across every sport on the fee schedule, from tee ball at 45 dollars for a resident to Jr. Jazz basketball at 55.

The other thing worth carrying away is how this city documents itself. The parks page has street addresses on every entry. The fee schedule prices every facility. The annual report counts the mowing. And two of those documents currently disagree with a third about what has been built at the west end park. That combination, unusually complete records with one live contradiction inside them, is a fair description of researching South Weber generally, and the mover page is where it turns into a list of things to ask before an offer.

Quick answers


The South Weber parks, answered.

At 631 East Peterson Parkway, at the west end of South Weber, about a mile and a half northwest of City Hall as an estimate. The city's parks page lists bathrooms open from 15 April to 15 October, a bowery, a playground, a baseball diamond, pickleball courts, a basketball court, a bike track and a train. The city separately lists the bike track as its own site at the same address. The fee schedule prices the bowery, the basketball court, the pickleball courts, the diamond and a concession stand for booking, all of which are reserved and paid for at the Family Activity Center rather than online.

Two city pages disagree and neither carries a date. The history page says the park is currently under construction to bring in new pickleball courts, a tactical bike course, basketball courts and more. The parks page lists those amenities as present. A third document, the consolidated fee schedule for fiscal 2026 and 2027, prices the pickleball courts, the basketball court and a concession stand for booking, which is not something a city usually does for facilities that do not exist. The balance of the evidence points to the history page being out of date, but no city page publishes a completion date, so look at the ground before you book a court.

Twelve named sites with published street addresses, and the city says it sustains the operations and maintenance of approximately fifty acres of parks in total. It publishes no acreage for any individual site. Two of the twelve are retention ponds, at Cedar Loop and Silverleaf, and two more, the Historic Pioneer Cemetery and the Dog Park, are listed with no amenities beside them. The four with real programme on them are Canyon Meadows, Central Park, Cherry Farms and the Posse Grounds, and those are the four the fee schedule prices for booking.

It depends on which park, because the city runs two different calendars and publishes both. Canyon Meadows Park has bathrooms open from 15 April to 15 October. Cherry Farms has bathrooms open from 1 April to 31 October, which is two weeks longer at each end. The Posse Grounds is listed with bathrooms and no season attached. If you are planning something in early April or late October, that difference decides which park you want, and it is the kind of specific that only appears because the city bothered to publish it.

In person, at the Family Activity Center at 1181 East Lester Drive. The city's fee schedule states that reservations must be made and paid for there, with the deposit due at the time of reservation and the balance due when the key is collected. It also states that refunds will not be issued due to inclement weather. The refund ladder is published: a security deposit is returned in full if the booking is cancelled more than 48 hours ahead, and the rental fee in full if cancelled more than three weeks ahead or at half within three weeks.

Unusual ones, and they are the most practical thing to know about the building. The city publishes weekdays from five in the morning to half past eight, then again from half past three until ten at night, with the middle of the day closed, and Saturday from nine in the morning until ten at night. No Sunday hours are published. Inside are an indoor track, a weight room and a full size basketball court, plus classes the city names in yoga, jump rope, tumbling, karate, hula dancing and Zumba. It is at 1181 East Lester Drive, next door to South Weber Elementary.

From the fiscal 2026 to 2027 fee schedule, checked in August 2026: an individual resident pass is 4 dollars daily, 20 monthly, 100 for six months or 150 for the year, with non resident rates a step higher on each line, and a family resident pass runs from 7 dollars daily to 240 for the year. There is a 50 per cent discount at 65 and over, and a corporate membership at 800 dollars for a company inside the city limits or 1,000 for one outside, covering up to ten members. The schedule is reissued annually, so confirm the current one before budgeting.

Yes, consistently, and the pattern is clean enough to be worth knowing. Recreation programme fees in the fiscal 2026 to 2027 schedule carry a flat ten dollar premium for non residents across every sport: tee ball and coach pitch at 45 dollars for a resident and 55 for a non resident, soccer with a jersey at 50 and 60, Jr. Jazz basketball, softball, baseball and machine pitch at 55 and 65. Facility rentals run at roughly double, with an aerobics room or half court gymnasium at 20 dollars for a resident first hour and 40 for a non resident. Park boweries follow the same shape.

There is an activity centre with an indoor track, a weight room and a full size basketball court, and there is no swimming pool or aquatic centre inside the city. The city's indoor offer is that one building at 1181 East Lester Drive, with its split weekday hours. Pools and larger indoor facilities are in the neighbouring cities and belong to those cities rather than to this one, so anyone whose week depends on a pool should check the nearest operator's own hours and rates directly rather than assuming a city of this size carries one.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

Twelve parks, fifty acres, and a booking counter that shuts at half past eight in the morning.

South Weber runs more public ground per resident than its size suggests, and it publishes every address, every season and every rate. What the practical city guide does not carry is the list, which is why this page has it. If you are weighing streets here, work out which of the twelve sites is genuinely within walking distance of each one, because two of them are retention ponds and two carry no amenities at all, and the difference between a park two streets away and a name on a map is the whole of what a family week feels like. Tell me the streets and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who knows them.

Referral disclosure. Outside Southern Utah, I connect home sellers and buyers with partner agents I trust in their area. If you choose to work with an agent I refer, that agent's brokerage pays my brokerage (Real Broker, LLC) a referral fee. The fee comes out of the agent's compensation; it is not an added cost to you. You are always free to choose any agent you wish, and using a referred agent is never required.