The parks Sunset
Three neighborhood parks on a flat grid, and the oldest one sits where the town began
Sunset's three parks, and the address that has been everything
Sunset runs three city parks, all within about a mile and a half of each other: Central Park at 85 West 1800 North, John G. White North Park at 2400 North 250 West, and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park at 975 North 200 West. They are ordinary, well kept neighborhood parks with pavilions you can reserve for the day at city hall. And Central Park sits on the very ground the James Hill family farmed in the 1870s, later the site of the town's 1965 city hall.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Sunset has three city parks, and that is the whole list: Central Park, John G. White North Park, and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park. They sit within about a mile and a half of one another on the town's flat grid, and each has a pavilion, or bowery, you can reserve for the day in person at the Sunset City Office. These are neighborhood parks rather than a regional showpiece, so plan on an hour or two of ordinary park time, or a full day if you have booked a bowery for a party. If you want water, a canyon, or a trail, that is a short drive into the wider county, because Sunset itself is flat delta ground with none of it.
Central Park
Central Park, 85 West 1800 North, on the ground the town started from
Central Park is the town's main park and its oldest piece of ground. The James Hill family, the first settlers in this area, farmed right here in the 1870s, back when the place was still called Sandridge and drinking water came from wells and the Weber River. The city built its first city hall on the same block in 1965, then moved to the current building a few streets south on 1300 North in 2003. For years the town's fire station stood here too. Today Sunset's fire and medical calls are answered by the North Davis Fire District, which covers Sunset along with West Point and Clearfield. So one ordinary park at 85 West 1800 North has been the farm the town grew from, its city hall, and its fire station, all on the same block.
It is also the best placed of the three. 1800 North is a state route, SR-37, and it meets Main Street, which is SR-126, a couple of hundred yards to the east. Central Park sits a short walk from the crossing of the town's two state highways, which is exactly where a farm wanted to be in the 1870s and where a city wanted its hall in 1965. Its bowery is the largest the city rents, so it is the one to ask about when you are hosting a big group.
The details
John G. White North Park
John G. White North Park, the quiet one at the top of town
John G. White North Park sits at 2400 North 250 West, near the northern edge of the city, about a mile up the grid from city hall. It is the smallest and quietest of the three, with a bowery sized for a family gathering rather than a big crowd. A skate spot has long been tied to North Park, and the town's summer festival has run a skate contest here. Details on it are thin, so a quick call to the city office is worth it before you plan a trip around it.
The details
Rachael Runyan Memorial Park
Rachael Runyan Memorial Park, the one behind the elementary school
Rachael Runyan Memorial Park is at 975 North 200 West, just south of city hall and tucked behind Doxey Elementary School. It has a playground and two smaller boweries rather than one large shelter, which makes it the everyday park for much of the older, southern half of town. In recent years it has also been the home of the city's summer festival, Sunset City Fun Days.
The details
Booking a bowery
How to reserve a bowery or a ball field
Reserving a bowery in Sunset is refreshingly low tech. You do it in person at the Sunset City Office at 200 West 1300 North, and the rate for a full day, with power and restrooms, is one of the more affordable pavilion rentals on this side of the county. There is no online booking system, so plan a stop at city hall. A summer Saturday can fill up, so ask how far ahead you should reserve when you go in.
The city also rents the ball fields at the parks on a separate schedule, with a deposit and an hourly rate plus optional extras like field lights and a scoreboard. If a game or a tournament is what you are planning, ask for the full ball field schedule rather than the headline number, and confirm the current fees while you are there. Fees get reviewed from time to time, so the city office is the place to get today's figure.
Confirm dates, fees, and what is on the ground with the city, not a listings site. Festival dates and bowery rates move from year to year. Call the Sunset City Office at 801-825-1628, or stop by 200 West 1300 North, for the current bowery rate, the ball field schedule, and this year's Fun Days weekend before you plan around any of them.
The one big event
Sunset City Fun Days, a July weekend the whole town circles
Sunset's own celebration is Sunset City Fun Days, held over a weekend each July, in recent years at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park. It is a small town festival in the best sense: a parade up 250 West, a morning 5K fun run, a community breakfast, a car show, a skate contest, vendor booths, and an evening show to close it out.
The exact weekend, the parade route, and the start times shift a little from year to year, so check the city's event calendar in late spring. Outside that weekend the parks calendar is quiet by design. This is a place for an ordinary afternoon at the park more than a packed events schedule, and that is part of what a Sunset address is.
Three parks inside a mile and a half of grid, pavilions you book at city hall, and one big weekend in July. For a city of about 5,400 people, that is a genuinely honest, genuinely usable set of parks.
Living with it
Three grid parks, and a county full of the rest
The honest picture of the outdoors in Sunset is that the city gives you three neighborhood parks on a flat grid, and the county gives you everything else. There is no creek, pond, reservoir, canyon, or trail inside the city line, because Sunset sits on flat Weber River delta ground, roughly ten miles west of the mountains and about six miles east of the Great Salt Lake. Anyone selling you a Sunset with its own canyon or lakefront is describing a different town.
That is a planning fact, not a knock. The county is small and the freeway is close, so the canyons, the island in the lake, the wetlands, and the walkable water edges are all a short drive. What a day out in Davis County actually costs, venue by venue, is laid out on the family weekends page, and none of it is in this city, which is the honest answer rather than a gap.
What the three parks are genuinely good for is the ordinary thing done cheaply: a birthday under a bowery, a ball game, a Saturday morning with the kids. If you are weighing an address here, the mover page covers the services a Sunset address leans on, and the Sunset city guide has the market and the numbers. And walk all three parks before you form a view, because what is on the ground at each one is a thing you can only learn by standing in it.
Scott Buehler
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Quick answers
The parks, answered
Three, and that is the whole list: Central Park at 85 West 1800 North, John G. White North Park at 2400 North 250 West, and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park at 975 North 200 West. All three are run by the city and sit within about a mile and a half of one another. There is no park in Sunset called Sunset Park.
Central Park is at 85 West 1800 North, near where 1800 North meets Main Street. John G. White North Park is at 2400 North 250 West, up near the north edge of town. Rachael Runyan Memorial Park is at 975 North 200 West, just south of city hall and behind Doxey Elementary School.
In person at the Sunset City Office, 200 West 1300 North. There is no online booking, so plan a stop at city hall. A summer Saturday can fill up, so ask how far ahead you should reserve, and confirm the current rate while you are there.
No. A full day under a bowery, with power and restrooms, is one of the more affordable pavilion rentals on this side of the county. The city reviews its fees from time to time, so reserve in person at the city office and ask for today's rate rather than relying on an old figure online.
Central Park. Its bowery seats the biggest group of the three, so it is the one to ask about for a large gathering. John G. White North Park has a smaller bowery, and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park has two smaller ones rather than a single large shelter.
Central Park today, and it is the oldest piece of ground in town. The James Hill family, Sunset's first settlers, farmed here in the 1870s, and the city built its first city hall on the same block in 1965 before moving to the current building on 1300 North in 2003.
It is the city's summer celebration, held over a weekend each July, in recent years at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park. Expect a parade up 250 West, a morning 5K, a community breakfast, a car show, a skate contest, and an evening show. The exact weekend moves a little each year, so check the city's event calendar in late spring.
A skate spot has long been tied to John G. White North Park, and the town's summer festival has run a skate contest there. Details on it are thin, so call the Sunset City Office at 801-825-1628 to confirm what is there before you plan a trip around it.
Not inside the city. Sunset sits on flat Weber River delta ground, roughly ten miles west of the mountains and about six miles east of the Great Salt Lake, with no creek, pond, reservoir, canyon, or trail within its line. Its three parks are neighborhood grid parks. The county's canyons, wetlands, and lake edges are all a short drive.
Three parks, a cheap bowery, and a weekend in July. That is Sunset's park life, plainly
Sunset keeps it small and honest: three neighborhood parks on a flat grid, pavilions you book at city hall, and one festival weekend each July. If a street near one of these parks is on your list, tell me which, and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows this end of the county, so you have someone local on the ground while I stay in your corner.
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