Nine days South Weber
A nine day city festival, sixteen separately run events, in four and a half square miles
Country Fair Days, nine days run by the people who live here
South Weber's own festival runs the first week of August every year, about nine days across two weekends and the week between. It started in 1976, and the city still names the resident who founded it. The roster runs to sixteen separately coordinated events, a parade and a car show among them, plus two that tell you what kind of town this is: a Little Buckaroo Rodeo and an Old Timers Ball Game, each run by a resident rather than a contractor.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Country Fair Days is South Weber's own city festival, nine days at the turn of July into August, run by residents rather than by a contractor. It lands the first week of August every year and spreads sixteen separately coordinated events across the town's parks and streets, from a parade and a car show to a Little Buckaroo Rodeo and an Old Timers Ball Game. It started in 1976, and the city still names the resident who founded it. There is no single festival ground and no gate at the whole thing: some pieces are free to walk up to, others are registered entries. The one part that moves year to year is the exact dates, so pull next year's from the South Weber city events page in the spring.
What it is
Nine days a small city runs for itself, and a founder it still names
Country Fair Days is not a fair with a stall or two. It is nine days of program, put together as sixteen separately coordinated events, each with its own volunteer organizer rather than a single production run by a contractor. A parade, a car show, a chalk art day, a golf outing, a pickleball tournament, a Monday dinner, a family game night, a movie in the park run by the City Council, a basketball shooting contest, a children's race and a memorial race all sit inside the week. A city of roughly eight thousand people does not staff nine days of events so much as field them, and that is the first thing the festival tells you about the place.
Two events are worth naming on their own. The Little Buckaroo Rodeo is a children's rodeo, and the reason a town this size can hold one is that it owns a paddock and an arena at the Posse Grounds on Old Fort Road. The Old Timers Ball Game is a baseball fixture for former players on a city diamond. Neither is the kind of thing a production company brings in for a fee; both are the kind of thing a town keeps going because someone has always kept it going.
The tradition started in 1976. South Weber names the resident who founded it, Kathy Poll, and adds that many hands have kept it going since. A founding year with a named founder attached is more than most city festivals record about themselves, and it is the sort of detail that marks an event that grew out of a place rather than one scheduled into it. No year carries a numbered anniversary, so the founding year is the fact to take away, not the arithmetic.
The details
Before you go
- Pull the dates from the South Weber city events page each spring. They move within the same first week of August window.
- Some events take registration through the city's recreation system rather than a walk up on the day. Check before you turn up expecting to enter.
- The parade and the ball game are the two fixtures that reliably fill a street and a diamond. If you are visiting to see the town, that is the day.
- Looking at a house here in late July? Expect nine days of parade closures and busy park parking, and treat that as information rather than a warning.
Take next year's dates from the city, not from a listing. Country Fair Days moves a little from year to year inside the same first week of August window, so a set of dates copied from a third party listing can be a year stale. The South Weber city events page is where next year's dates and the events schedule flyer stay current. And while 1976 makes the math tempting, no edition is billed as a numbered anniversary, so treat the founding year as the fact and skip the count.
What it tells you about the town
The best read on a small city is what it organizes for itself
A festival organized as sixteen separate volunteer run events, in a town small enough that the organizers are neighbors rather than a production company, is a specific kind of place. It is a rodeo run by one resident, a ball game run by two, a car show run by a couple, and a movie run by the City Council. Whether that appeals is a personal call, but it is a real and checkable difference between South Weber and a larger neighbor down the valley.
The practical side for a household is modest and worth knowing. Nine days at the turn of July into August bring street closures for a parade, busy parking at the parks, and a rodeo somewhere in a town that owns a paddock. If you work nights or need a quiet weekend, that is a week to look at in advance. If you are visiting to decide about the town, it is the single best week to see it, because everything the city runs is running at once.
One thing to watch in a search. Country Fair Days is not the Weber County Fair, a much larger event held up in Ogden, and a search for the city's festival tends to surface the county one first. Confusing the two hands you wrong dates, a wrong venue and a wrong sense of scale. If a listing promises you a county fair in South Weber, it has run the wrong search.
Where it happens
No single festival ground, so the parks are the map
There is no one festival ground in South Weber, so the parks are worth reading alongside this page. Central Park holds the only city stage. Canyon Meadows Park holds the pickleball and basketball courts, the bike track and a concession stand. The Posse Grounds on Old Fort Road has the paddock and arena, the natural home for a children's rodeo in a town with no other horse facility, though the schedule is the only thing that pins a venue for a given year. The events schedule flyer names the actual times and places, and it is the document to get before planning a specific day.
The venues
- Central Park, 7355 South 1375 East. The only city stage. Directions
- Canyon Meadows Park, 631 East Peterson Parkway. Courts, a bike track and a concession stand. Directions
- Posse Grounds, Old Fort Road. A paddock and arena, the likely home for the children's rodeo. Directions
What it takes to run
A festival that shows its own working
South Weber's consolidated fee schedule carries a special event chapter: an application fee, a refundable damage deposit that scales with the size of the crowd and comes with an inspection, and public works time charged by the hour, with non resident rates set at roughly double. The park side of the same schedule is where the festival lands, pricing a bowery, the Central Park stage, a baseball diamond and the Canyon Meadows concession stand, each reserved and paid for in person at the Family Activity Center. One line on that schedule is worth knowing before you book anything: refunds are not issued for bad weather.
The nine days work as sixteen volunteer run pieces rather than one contracted production. It also answers in advance the question anyone planning a neighborhood event or a charity race here would otherwise make three phone calls to settle. The parks page carries the rest of the booking machinery and the twelve site inventory it applies to.
Sixteen volunteer run events over nine days, run by neighbors rather than a production company.
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Country Fair Days runs the first week of August every year, which is the pattern to plan around rather than any single set of dates. It fills about nine days at the turn of July into August, taking in two weekends and the week between them. The exact days shift a little from year to year, so pull next year's schedule from the South Weber city events page in the spring rather than from a third party listing.
About nine days, across two weekends and the week between them. That is a long run for a city of roughly eight thousand people, and the reason it holds up is in how it is put together: sixteen separately coordinated events, each with its own volunteer organizer, rather than one production on a single program. A city this size does not staff nine days of events so much as field them.
Yes. A parade is one of the sixteen coordinated events, and along with the Old Timers Ball Game it is one of the two fixtures that reliably fill a street and a diamond. A parade means a street closure somewhere in town for part of the day. The route and the start time are set year to year and land on the events schedule flyer, so check that flyer or ask the city closer to the date for the exact street and time.
In 1976. South Weber's history names the resident who founded it, Kathy Poll, and notes that many hands have kept the tradition going since. A founding year with a named founder attached is more than most city festivals record about themselves. No edition is billed as a numbered anniversary, so the founding year is what stands, with no edition number attached.
Sixteen coordinated events spread across the nine days. They include a parade, a car show, a chalk art day, a golf outing, a pickleball tournament, a Monday dinner, a family game night, a movie in the park run by the City Council, a basketball shooting contest, a children's race, a memorial race, a pop up sweet shop and vendor booths. Two are worth naming on their own: a Little Buckaroo Rodeo and an Old Timers Ball Game. Times and venues live on the events schedule flyer rather than on any fixed calendar.
Across South Weber's own parks and streets rather than at one festival ground. Central Park at 7355 South 1375 East holds the only city stage. Canyon Meadows Park at 631 East Peterson Parkway holds the pickleball and basketball courts, the bike track and a concession stand. The Posse Grounds on Old Fort Road has a paddock and an arena, the natural home for a children's rodeo in a town with no other horse facility, though that is not something to bank on without checking the schedule. The events flyer is the document that names venues.
No, and the mix up is worth heading off, because a search for the festival tends to return the county event first. The Weber County Fair is a much larger event held up in Ogden, in a different county from this city despite the river name they share. Country Fair Days is South Weber's own nine day city festival, run by residents on city ground. If a listing gives you a county fair in South Weber, or county fair dates for this festival, it has answered the wrong question.
There is no single price, and no gate charge for the festival as a whole. Some events are plainly free to attend, such as the parade and the movie in the park, while others are organized entries with registration through the city's recreation system, which is a different thing from paying at a gate. If cost matters for one specific event, the surest answer is to ask the coordinator listed for it on the city's page.
For about nine days at the turn of July into August, probably yes, and it is worth knowing rather than worrying about. A parade needs a street closure, a car show and a ball game fill the parking around a park, and a rodeo puts traffic somewhere a normal week does not. None of that is published street by street, so for a specific address the honest move is to ask the city or a local agent which streets carry the parade and where the overflow parking lands. If you are visiting to make up your mind about the town, that is the best week to see it.
Nine days, sixteen events, and a founder this small city still names
The best read on a small city is usually what it organizes for itself, and South Weber organizes nine days of it every summer with a rodeo in the middle. If you are weighing an address here, that is the week to visit in: the parks are full, the parade is on the main street, and you meet the people who run the place because they are the ones holding the clipboards. Tell me what you are considering and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who works this corner of the county, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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