The parks Sunset
One address in this town has been a farm, a city hall, a fire station site and the main park
Three parks, and one address that has been everything.
Sunset publishes exactly three parks: 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. A full day under a bowery, with electricity and restrooms, is $15.00 for a resident and $35.00 for a non resident, booked in person at the city office. And 85 West 1800 North is the address the city's own general plan gives for the first settler family's farm in the 1870s and for the city hall built in 1965.
Sunset sits at the top of Davis County, a long drive north of the Southern Utah 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 website and the general plan its council adopted, published on the state public notice website; the North Davis Fire District and the North Davis Sewer District; the Davis County Assessor's parcel roll; the Census Bureau's geocoder and its 2020 block file; and the state's own roads and municipal boundary layers. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
How many parks does Sunset have, where are they, and what does it actually cost to book one for a day?
Three, and the city publishes all three with addresses and bowery capacities on one page. As published on the bowery and park rentals page, checked on 16 August 2026, the city lists Central Park at 85 West 1800 North with a bowery capacity of 50 to 150; John G. White North Park at 2400 North 250 West with a capacity of 20 to 35; and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park at 975 North 200 West with two bowery areas, one for 20 to 30 and one for 10 to 12. That is the complete published list for the city.
The cost is the part worth knowing before you plan anything, because it is genuinely cheap and it is published in full. A bowery or pavilion for a full day, with electricity and restrooms, is $15.00 for a resident and $35.00 for a non resident. Ball fields carry a $100.00 deposit and run $10.00 an hour per field for residents and $20.00 for non residents, with field maintenance at $25.00 per field on weekdays and $40.00 at weekends, a scoreboard at $20.00 per field per day, a supervisor at $15.00 an hour and lighting at $15.00 an hour.
Booking is in person and that is the whole instruction. The city says a bowery "can be reserved by visiting the Sunset City Office at 200 West 1300 North", and it publishes no lead time, no season and no hours window anywhere on that page, so none of those three appears here either. Turn up at the city office. If you need to know how far ahead to do it, ask them, because nobody has written it down.
The parks, in numbers
3
parks published by the city, with addresses
$15.00
a resident full day bowery, power and restrooms
50 to 150
the capacity of the largest bowery, at Central Park
4
bowery areas across the three parks
The spine
85 West 1800 North has been a farm, a city hall and a fire station, and it is now the city's biggest bowery.
One address in this town keeps turning up, and three of its four uses are published by the city in a single document. Set the general plan's history section against the parks page and Central Park stops being a patch of grass and becomes the place the whole town has always put whatever it needed most.
The general plan's community history section puts the first settler family here: the James Hill family arrived in the 1870s and "their home and farm were located at approximately 85 West 1800 North, where the Sunset Fire Department now stands." Four paragraphs later the same document says: "In 1965 Sunset City Hall was built at 85 West 1800 North. The current Sunset City Building was built in 2003 and is located at 200 West 1300 North." And the city's rentals page publishes Central Park at 85 West 1800 North.
So a single address on a single block has been the first farm in the area, a city hall for something like thirty eight years, a fire station site and the city's main park, and the city itself has published every part of that. One qualification belongs here rather than in a footnote: the plan's sentence about the fire department is written in the present tense, and Sunset no longer runs a fire department of its own. Fire and emergency medical cover comes from the North Davis Fire District, whose two stations are in West Point and Clearfield. Confirm what stands on that block today by looking at it rather than by reading the plan.
The location is not an accident either. 1800 North is a state route, SR-37, and it meets Main Street, SR-126, a couple of hundred yards east of this address. So the oldest continuously used piece of ground in Sunset sits a short walk from the junction of the town's two state highways, which is exactly where a farm would have wanted to be in the 1870s and exactly where a city would have wanted its hall in 1965.
What is actually there now, in terms of amenities, the city does not publish. The parks page gives an address and a bowery capacity and stops. There is no acreage, no equipment list, no ball field count and no opening hours for Central Park or for either of the others, and this page is not going to invent any of them. What the city does publish is the fee schedule, in full, and that is below.
| Park | Address | Bowery capacity | Full day bowery | What else the city publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Park | 85 West 1800 North | 50 to 150 | $15.00 resident, $35.00 non resident, with electricity and restrooms | Nothing further on the parks page. The general plan separately ties this address to the 1870s farm and the 1965 city hall |
| John G. White North Park | 2400 North 250 West | 20 to 35 | The same $15.00 and $35.00 schedule | Nothing further. No acreage, no amenity list, and no explanation anywhere of who John G. White was |
| Rachael Runyan Memorial Park | 975 North 200 West | Two areas, 20 to 30 and 10 to 12 | The same $15.00 and $35.00 schedule | Nothing further on the parks page. This is where the city held Fun Days in 2026 |
| Ball fields, any park | Booked through the city office | Not stated | $10.00 per hour per field resident, $20.00 non resident, on a $100.00 deposit | Field maintenance $25.00 weekdays and $40.00 weekends, scoreboard $20.00 per field per day, supervisor $15.00 an hour, lighting $15.00 an hour |
Every figure is from the City of Sunset's bowery and park rentals page, checked on 16 August 2026, and the city describes reservations as made by visiting the city office at 200 West 1300 North. The city publishes no lead time, no booking season and no hours window, so none is given here. Fees are reviewed and change; confirm at the city office before planning around any of them.
The details
Getting there
From the city building at 200 West 1300 North, go north on 200 West and east on 1800 North, or come west off Main Street on 1800 North, which is SR-37 and is signed. The park sits on the north side of the city's older half, a short distance from the junction of the two state routes. North Park is about a mile further north at 2400 North 250 West, and Rachael Runyan Memorial Park is south of City Hall at 975 North 200 West, so all three are within about a mile and a half of each other on the same grid.
Before you go
- Reserve in person at the city office at 200 West 1300 North. That is the city's entire published instruction, and no lead time is stated anywhere.
- The fifteen dollar resident rate is for a full day with electricity and restrooms, which is a genuinely useful thing to know before booking a hall somewhere else.
- Ball fields are a separate schedule with a deposit, an hourly rate, a maintenance charge and optional extras. Ask for the whole schedule rather than the headline rate.
- The city publishes no amenity list for any of the three parks, so check what is actually there before promising a splash pad, a court or a playground to anybody.
The one event
Sunset City Fun Days runs in July, and the 2026 edition has already happened.
Fun Days is the city's own annual celebration and it is the single fixture on the Sunset calendar. The 2026 edition ran on 17 and 18 July 2026 at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park, 975 North 200 West, and the city's own event page now carries the line that the event has passed. As of 16 August 2026, no date for 2027 is published anywhere on the city website. This page therefore writes the event in the past tense and prints no future date, because inventing one is how a whole family ends up standing in an empty park.
The venue is worth noting because it moved. The only detailed running order the city has ever put online is from 2023, and it ran across Central Park and North Park rather than at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park. So both the schedule and the location have changed inside three years, which is a good reason not to plan a 2027 trip off a 2023 page and a better reason not to repeat 2023 prices as current. None of the 2023 times or entry fees appear on this page.
What Fun Days generally is, described at the level that has held steady: a July weekend with a parade, a fun run, a community breakfast, a skateboard competition, a car show, vendor booths and an evening show, spread across a Friday evening and a Saturday. That is a shape rather than a schedule. The specific route, the specific start times and the specific entry fees all belong to the city and all have moved, and the place to get them is the city's own event calendar in the spring rather than any aggregator, including the ones carrying a 2026 listing that is now behind us.
The rest of the year is thin by design and the city says so indirectly. The parks and recreation section of the general plan carries an action item to "Develop Community Events at parks and community facilities, such as Free Movie Nights in the summer, Day Camps, etc." That is an intention rather than a programme, and no page should describe a Sunset movie night or day camp as running. The city events calendar is the honest place to look, and on the day this page was written it carried trash and recycling days, a council meeting on 18 August 2026 and an office closure for Labor Day on 7 September 2026.
A fifteen dollar bowery for a whole day, three parks inside a mile and a half of grid, and one July weekend a year. That is the entire published recreation programme of a city of 5,400 people.
The gaps
What the city does not publish about its own parks, and why this page is not filling any of it in.
The parks page is an address and a capacity per park, plus a fee schedule. That is all of it. There is no acreage for any of the three, no amenity list, no playground description, no court count, no restroom season, no opening or closing time and no dog rule. The city's community pages say the city has three parks and stop. For a companion whose job is to carry the facts a listing will not, that is a short well, and pretending otherwise by borrowing from a directory site would put unverifiable claims on a page about somebody's afternoon.
Two specific gaps are worth naming rather than glossing. The first is the skatepark. A skatepark is widely associated with North Park, and the 2023 Fun Days listing put a skate contest there, but the city publishes no location, no surface, no hours and no rule for it anywhere on its website. So it is named here as something reported rather than described, and anyone planning around it should ring the city office at 801-825-1628 first.
The second is the name on North Park. The city publishes John G. White North Park and offers no explanation of who John G. White was, anywhere. The federal geographic names record carries a park feature called White Park and a populated place called White in roughly the right position, which suggests an older recorded name in the same area, and that is as far as the evidence goes. A named park in a small city usually honours a mayor, a councillor or a donor, and guessing which would be inventing a person's biography. The council minutes the city publishes are the place to settle it.
The third gap is the smallest and the most practical: the booking process. The city says reserve in person at the city office and gives no lead time, no season and no hours. In a city of 5,400 with four bowery areas and one annual event, a summer Saturday is plausibly spoken for well in advance and nothing on the city website tells you how far. Ask when you go in. And note that the ordinances rather than the parks page are where any actual rule lives, at American Legal Publishing, which is the primary source for a fireworks question, an animal question or a park hours question.
Do not plan a Sunset park day off a third party listing, and do not carry a 2026 Fun Days date forward. The city publishes no park hours, no park season, no amenity list and no booking lead time, so any page that gives you one is sourcing it somewhere other than the city. Fun Days 2026 ran on 17 and 18 July 2026 and the city's own event page says it has passed; aggregator listings for it are still up and will read as upcoming to anyone who does not check the year. No 2027 date is published. The one detailed schedule the city has ever posted is from 2023, at different parks, with different prices, and none of it is current. Take the date, the venue and the fee from the city office or the city calendar, in that order.
Living with it
Three grid parks, no water, no canyon, and a county full of everything this city does not have.
The honest description of outdoor life in Sunset is that the city gives you three neighbourhood parks on a flat grid and the county gives you everything else. There is no creek here, no pond, no reservoir, no canyon mouth, no bench trail and no lake edge inside the municipal line, because the city sits on flat river delta ground about ten miles west of the mountain front and about six miles east of the water. Any page that sells you a Sunset outdoors is describing somebody else's city.
That is not a complaint, it is a planning fact, and the compensation is that the county is small and the freeway is close. What a day out in Davis County actually costs, venue by venue and season by season, is priced once for all fifteen towns on the family weekends page, and nothing in this city appears on it, which is the honest answer rather than an omission. The bench canyons, the island, the wetlands and the county's walkable water edges are all on their own county pages and all of them are a drive.
What the three parks are genuinely good for is the ordinary thing, and the fee schedule is the reason. Fifteen dollars for a full day under a bowery with power and restrooms, for a resident, in a city where the largest of those boweries takes 50 to 150 people, is a real and unusual piece of municipal value. If you are weighing an address here and you host anything, that number is worth more than most of what a listing will tell you, and it is published rather than negotiated.
The one thing to hold lightly is everything the city does not publish. Walk the three parks before you form a view, because an address, a bowery capacity and a fee schedule is genuinely all the city says about them, and what is actually on the ground at each one is a thing you can only learn by standing in it. The mover page covers what the rest of an address here asks for, and the market side belongs on the practical city guide.
What a day costs
Family weekends in Davis County
The county's paid attractions priced and seasoned in one place, free ones first, none of them in this city.
Read the guideThe oldest ground
How Sunset got its name
Why the first farm was at 85 West 1800 North, and what the town was called before 1916.
Read the guideThe street outside
Main Street and the freeway
The two state routes that cross a couple of hundred yards from the city's oldest address.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Sunset
The service list, the published rate card, and the four different cities a Sunset address leans on.
The mover pageThe practical side
The Sunset city guide
The half of an address with figures on it: the market, the levy, the accounts, the schools.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Fourteen other towns on this side of the state, and seven county subjects written once for all of them.
The region hubKeep reading
The rest of Sunset on The Local.
The city line
The city limits and the base
About a quarter of this city is Air Force ground, inside the municipal line.
Read the guideThe street
Main Street and the freeway
The city wrote the destruction of the east side of Main Street into its own plan.
Read the guideThe name
How Sunset got its name
A bishop asked three women for a name in 1916. The railroad drew the line after.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Sunset
Its own police force, and a neighbor's ZIP code, fire engines and street numbers.
Read the guideThe companion
The whole of Sunset
A mile and a half of grid, a freeway down the seam, and a federal quarter nobody drives into.
Start at the hubQuick answers
The parks, answered.
Three, and the city publishes all three with addresses on one page. They are 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. Between them they carry four bowery areas: one at Central Park with a capacity of 50 to 150, one at North Park at 20 to 35, and two at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park at 20 to 30 and 10 to 12. There is no park in Sunset called Sunset Park, and a guide offering a fourth is not working from the city's list.
A bowery or pavilion for a full day, with electricity and restrooms, is $15.00 for a resident and $35.00 for a non resident, on the city's own published schedule checked on 16 August 2026. Ball fields are separate: a $100.00 deposit, then $10.00 per hour per field for residents and $20.00 for non residents, with field maintenance at $25.00 per field on weekdays and $40.00 at weekends, a scoreboard at $20.00 per field per day, a supervisor at $15.00 an hour and lighting at $15.00 an hour. Fees are reviewed, so confirm at the city office.
In person. The city says a bowery can be reserved by visiting the Sunset City Office at 200 West 1300 North, and that is the entire published instruction. It gives no lead time, no booking season and no hours window on the parks page, so none is stated here either. In a city with four bowery areas and a summer Saturday demand nobody has quantified, it is worth asking how far ahead when you go in, because the answer is not written down anywhere on the city website.
Central Park, on the city's own rentals page. The same address carries most of the town's history: the general plan says the James Hill family, the first settlers here in the 1870s, had their home and farm at approximately 85 West 1800 North, describes it as where the fire department stands, and separately records that Sunset City Hall was built at 85 West 1800 North in 1965 before the current city building went up at 200 West 1300 North in 2003. One address, a farm, a city hall, a fire station site and a park, all published by the city.
No, which is why the general plan's present tense sentence about a fire department at 85 West 1800 North needs care. Fire and emergency medical services come from the North Davis Fire District, an independent district that in its own words serves West Point, Clearfield and Sunset. Its two stations are Station 41 at 381 North 3150 West in West Point and Station 42 at 88 East Center Street in Clearfield, so neither is inside Sunset. The mover page covers the whole service list, provider by provider.
It runs in July, and the 2026 edition has already happened. It ran on 17 and 18 July 2026 at Rachael Runyan Memorial Park, 975 North 200 West, and the city's own event page carries the line that the event has passed. As of 16 August 2026, no 2027 date is published anywhere on the city website. The only detailed running order the city has ever posted is from 2023, at Central Park and North Park rather than at the 2026 venue, so none of its times, entry fees or route is repeated here as current.
A skatepark is widely associated with North Park and the city's own 2023 Fun Days listing put a skate contest there, but the city publishes no location, no surface, no hours and no rule for it anywhere on its website. So it is named here as something reported rather than described. Anyone planning around it should ring the city office on 801-825-1628 first. The same gap applies across all three parks: the city publishes an address and a bowery capacity and no amenity list of any kind.
The city does not say, anywhere. It publishes the park as John G. White North Park at 2400 North 250 West and offers no explanation of the name. The federal geographic names record carries a park feature called White Park and a populated place called White in roughly the right position, which suggests an older recorded name in the same area, and that is as far as the published evidence goes. A named park in a small city usually honours a mayor, a councillor or a donor, and guessing which would be inventing somebody's biography. The council minutes are the place to settle it.
None inside the city. Sunset sits on flat river delta ground at roughly 4,500 to 4,540 feet, about ten miles west of the mountain front and about six miles east of the Great Salt Lake, and it has no creek, no pond, no reservoir, no canyon mouth, no bench trail and no water edge within its municipal line. Its three parks are grid parks. Everything else in this county, the canyons, the island, the wetlands and the walkable water edges, is a drive, and each has its own page written once for all fifteen towns.
Three parks, four boweries and the cheapest published full day on this side of the county.
Sunset's outdoor offer is small, flat and honest: three neighbourhood parks on a grid, no water, no canyon, and a fee schedule that gives a resident a whole day under a bowery with power and restrooms for fifteen dollars. The city publishes the addresses, the capacities and the fees, and almost nothing else, so walk all three before you form a view and ask at the city office how far ahead a summer Saturday goes. If a street near one of them is on your list, tell me which, and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this end of the county.
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