The parks West Point
One regional park, two smaller ones, a detention basin with a hoop, and a cemetery the city runs itself
Loy Blake Park, and the rest of what this town owns outright.
Loy F. Blake Park is 26.3 acres at 3500 West 550 North, the only regional park West Point has, with four paved lots holding 298 cars, five boweries, a fire pit, seven drinking fountains, power and water, an orienteering course and the West Point Military Memorial, dedicated on 11 November 2015. Behind it sit East Park at 14.2 acres, Arnold T. Bingham Memorial Park at 8.8 with no power and no water, a two tenths of an acre detention basin with one hoop that the city lists as a park, and a cemetery the city administers itself.
My own ground is Iron and Washington counties at the far south end of the state, a long drive from the west edge of Davis County, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was taken where it is issued: West Point City's General Plan Update adopted 17 December 2024 and its Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan adopted 2 May 2023, the city's own park, cemetery, utility, events and public notice pages, its August 2026 newsletter and its statutory tax notice, the state transportation department's own site for the highway being built here, the North Davis Fire District, the Division of Wildlife Resources, the Census Bureau's geocoder, the state address point layer and the federal agricultural census for Davis County. Every figure carries the day it was read. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
What is actually at Loy Blake Park, and on 20 August 2026 the city answers that twice, differently.
West Point has one regional park and this is it: Loy F. Blake Park, 26.3 acres, the largest single piece of public open ground the city owns. The city's own facilities page for it, checked in August 2026, gives the address as 3500 West 550 North and lists one football field, one playground, two soccer fields, two tennis courts, three baseball diamonds, three basketball courts, five boweries made up of one large and four small, a fire pit, restrooms and a sand volleyball court, with an orienteering course as a sub facility. The adopted Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan of 2 May 2023 adds the numbers that matter for a visit: four paved lots holding 298 parking spaces, 29 picnic tables, ten benches, seven drinking fountains, and both water and power on site.
The two city sources do not describe the same park in every particular, and the honest thing to do is say so rather than merge them. The adopted plan's inventory includes a splash pad and describes four multipurpose fields and a smaller tot lot alongside the large playground; the city's current facilities page lists no splash pad and describes a football field and two soccer fields instead. Both are the city. One is a plan adopted in May 2023 and one is a web page maintained since. Anybody driving out specifically for a water feature should ring the city on 801-776-0970 first, because a page and a plan disagreeing about a splash pad is exactly the kind of thing that ruins an afternoon.
The park is also where the town keeps its civic year. The Fourth of July celebration centres here, the senior lunch is held here, films in the park are shown here, and a private promoter runs a farmers market and seasonal markets on the same ground. Which of those are the city's own and which are not is worked through on the page about the Fourth, along with the schedule and the applications. This page is the park on an ordinary Tuesday.
The city's public ground, in numbers
26.3 ac
in Loy F. Blake Park, the city's only regional park
298
parking spaces across four paved lots there
49.5 ac
of city parks in total, on the adopted plan's inventory
0
pickleball courts published at any city park
The memorial
A committee formed around an idea in 2011 and dedicated the result on 11 November 2015.
The adopted parks plan lists, among Loy Blake Park's amenities, a veterans' memorial, and leaves it at that. The city's own August 2026 newsletter, written by the chair of the memorial committee and checked in August 2026, gives it a history. The committee has been in existence since about 2011, when the idea of a memorial first had its genesis. The West Point Military Memorial was dedicated on 11 November 2015. After the dedication the committee was asked by the mayor to remain organised and to serve as liaison between the city and its veterans. It was originally more than twenty people. It now numbers four. The chair is Marv Drake, on 801-825-5321, and the newsletter gives the location as Loy Blake Park at 3500 West 550 North.
Four facts, all from the city, all dated, and none of them on any other page about this town. That is worth noting for its own sake: the practical city guide on this site does not mention the memorial at all, and neither does any listing, directory or relocation summary. A town of eleven thousand put up a memorial, dedicated it on a specific day, and kept the committee running for a decade afterwards, and it is entirely absent from the public description of the place.
What this page will not do is describe who visits it or who it commemorates in any characterising way, and that is a deliberate line rather than an omission. The memorial, its dedication date, its committee and where it stands are the facts. The people are not this companion's subject anywhere, and they are particularly not its subject here. The air force base two cities east is a county subject with its own page written once for the whole county, and West Point is not a base city.
The details
Getting there
Loy Blake sits a short way northwest of City Hall on the block bounded by 550 North and 3500 West, and the city publishes its address in both orders on different pages, which is the same corner either way. Four paved lots hold 298 cars between them, which for a town this size is a great deal of parking and is a clue about what the park is really for: the Fourth of July, tournaments, and the biggest gatherings this city holds. On an ordinary weekday it is a large and mostly empty piece of ground.
Before you go
- Ring the city on 801-776-0970 before driving out for a specific amenity. The adopted plan and the current facilities page do not list identical features, and the splash pad is the clearest example.
- Book a bowery rather than turning up expecting one. Reservations run through an external portal linked from the city's park pages.
- Park hours are seven in the morning to ten at night, or dark depending on the lighting, and they are the same at every city park here.
- The orienteering course is listed by the city as a sub facility of this park, but no map, control count or season is published anywhere. Ask the city before planning around it.
The other three
A community park, a neighbourhood park with no power and a detention basin with one hoop on it.
The city owns four parks and a cemetery and publishes an inventory of all of them, which is unusually complete for a municipality this size. Acreages and parking counts come from the adopted Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan of 2 May 2023; amenity lists come from the city's own current facility pages, checked in August 2026, and where the two disagree the row says so.
| The site | Address | Size and parking | What the city publishes on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loy F. Blake Park | 3500 West 550 North | 26.3 acres, four paved lots, 298 spaces, water and power | One football field, one playground, two soccer fields, two tennis courts, three baseball diamonds, three basketball courts, five boweries as one large and four small, a fire pit, restrooms and a sand volleyball court, plus an orienteering course as a sub facility and the Military Memorial. The adopted plan additionally lists a splash pad and a tot lot |
| East Park | 2550 West 330 North | 14.2 acres, two paved lots, 153 spaces, water but no power | Baseball diamonds, playgrounds, boweries, a fire pit, restrooms, a sand volleyball court and a walking path. The adopted plan gives 0.61 miles of perimeter pathway, one large 100 person bowery and two 30 person ones |
| Arnold T. Bingham Memorial Park | 4550 West 550 North | 8.8 acres, one paved lot, 57 spaces, and neither power nor water | One baseball diamond, one playground, two sand volleyball courts, three boweries, a fire pit, restrooms and a walking path. The adopted plan gives 0.54 miles of perimeter pathway and places the park on the west side of the city, below the bluff |
| East Pocket Park | 1897 West 150 North | 0.2 acres, on street parking only | A grassed detention basin with one single hoop basketball court, in the adopted plan's own description |
| West Point City Cemetery | 80 North 4000 West | 4.2 acres, the city's only special use facility | Regulations, a plot and headstone layout, a fee schedule, an information packet and a quick reference on etiquette and decoration, all published by the city, with an Annual Child Remembrance Ceremony and bi-annual complete cemetery cleanings |
The city's own City Parks index calls the third of these Bingham Memorial Park while the adopted plan calls it Arnold T. Bingham Memorial Park; the fuller name is used here. The plan and the facility pages give slightly different amenity counts at East Park and Loy Blake, and both are city sources, so both are reported rather than reconciled. No issuing body publishes who Loy F. Blake or Arnold T. Bingham were, which is a real hole in the town's public record. No park here publishes a pickleball court.
East Pocket Park deserves its own sentence because of what it says about the town rather than what is on it. A city that lists a grassed detention basin with a single basketball hoop as a park, in an adopted master plan, with an acreage of two tenths of an acre and on street parking, is being straightforward about its own scale. That is the opposite of a brochure, and it is the reason the rest of this inventory can be trusted.
Bingham is the one to know about before driving there with a plan. Eight and eight tenths acres, a baseball diamond, a playground, two sand volleyball courts, three boweries, a fire pit, restrooms, a walking path of a little over half a mile, mature trees and open lawn, fifty seven parking spaces, and, in the adopted plan's inventory, no power and no water. It is also the park the plan locates by the landform rather than by a street, describing it as on the west side of the city, below Schneiter's Bluff, which is why it turns up again on the page about the step.
The cemetery is the city's only special use facility and it is administered by the city recorder rather than by a district or a private operator. Its own page, checked in August 2026, publishes cemetery regulations, a plot and headstone layout, a fee schedule, an information packet and a quick reference guide on etiquette, decorations and maintenance, and records an Annual Child Remembrance Ceremony and bi-annual complete cemetery cleanings. It is at 80 North 4000 West, which is also, as it happens, the landmark for the city's only published trailhead: the trail car park sits immediately west of it.
The arithmetic of acres
The city recommends a park standard and its own population projection walks straight through it.
The adopted parks plan recommends maintaining a level of service of 3.9 acres of park per thousand residents. On 49.5 acres of parks and the 10,963 people counted at the 2020 census, the city is currently at about 4.5 acres per thousand, which is comfortably above its own standard. Run the same sum against the city's own extrapolation of 39,036 residents by 2050 with no new parks and it lands near 1.3. Both inputs are published by the city, in two adopted documents, and the arithmetic between them is straightforward. That is not a prediction of anything; it is a statement that the city's own recommendation and its own projection are pointed at each other.
The plan attaches costs to closing that gap and they are estimates in an adopted document rather than funded programmes: 55,667,500 dollars for parks and 13,333,000 dollars for trails and trailhead improvements, through build out. Set against a town whose statutory tax notice this summer proposed raising an additional 86,166 dollars a year in property tax revenue, those are numbers that describe a long horizon rather than a plan for the next decade.
The plan also records what residents asked the city for when it consulted them, and the correct way to read that is as requests made to a municipality rather than as a description of anybody. The list runs: a perimeter walking path at Loy Blake, pickleball courts at either Bingham or Loy Blake, more trees at East Park, more benches at Loy Blake, a skate park or pump track, a dog park at East Park, basketball courts and a playground upgrade at Bingham. The same consultation recorded that people travel outside West Point for splash pads, for trailhead parks and for playgrounds, at 55.1 per cent, 45.8 per cent and 44.9 per cent respectively, and that Loy Blake is the most used park while more than half of respondents never visit East Park or Bingham.
One number from that list is worth pulling out because it is checkable and slightly funny. The plan's own inventory table reads zero pickleball courts at every city park, which is why residents asked for some. One city over, the neighbouring municipality publishes sixteen lit ones at a single park. In a county where pickleball has been the main municipal parks story for five years, West Point has none, and its own residents put them at the top of the list.
A city that lists a detention basin with one hoop on it as a park, in an adopted plan, is telling the truth about its own size. Everything else in that inventory can be believed.
Living with it
One big park, one medium, one with no tap, and a basin with a hoop.
The practical summary of public open ground in West Point is that there is one place to go and three places to go if you want to be alone. Loy Blake carries the fields, the courts, the boweries, the memorial, the parking and the whole civic year. East Park at 14.2 acres and Bingham at 8.8 have real amenities and, on the city's own consultation, are visited by fewer than half the people who answered. For a household that wants a quiet playground within a few minutes' drive, that is a genuine advantage rather than a shortcoming, and it is the sort of thing only a municipal survey ever reveals.
The rules are uniform and easy. Seven in the morning to ten at night, or dark depending on the lighting, at every city park. Leashed dogs allowed, owners clearing up. Boweries by reservation through an external portal. That dog rule is worth a line because it is not universal in this county: at least two Davis County cities restrict animals in some or all of their parks, and carrying a neighbour's rule across is a good way to be wrong. Check the city you are actually in.
What West Point does not have is as informative as what it does. No public pool and no municipal aquatic facility. No skate park or pump track, though residents asked. No dog park, though residents asked. No pickleball court anywhere. No pond to walk around, which is why the county's lakeside parks page carries nothing in this city. The practical city guide on this site lists a nature park with a pond and paved trails as being in West Point; that park is at 3176 South Bluff Road in Syracuse and belongs to the county topic and to the next town, not to this one.
The last thing a household should actually check is the booking calendar rather than the amenity list. In a town with one regional park and one big day, the park is heavily committed for a stretch of the summer, and a bowery on a July Saturday is not a turn up and hope proposition. The city's reservation portal is the place to look, and the page on the Fourth explains what the busiest day of the year does to this particular twenty six acres.
The city describes Loy Blake Park two different ways in two of its own publications, and the difference includes a splash pad. The Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan adopted 2 May 2023 lists a splash pad, four multipurpose fields and a tot lot alongside the large playground. The city's current facilities page for the park, checked in August 2026, lists one football field, two soccer fields, one playground and no splash pad at all. Both are the city; one is older and adopted, one is current and maintained. This companion reports both rather than choosing, because a plan can be out of date and a web page can be incomplete, and no third source settles it. The city's own consultation separately recorded that 55.1 per cent of respondents travel outside West Point for a splash pad, which cuts against the amenity being a reliable one. Telephone 801-776-0970 before making a trip that depends on it.
Keep reading
The rest of West Point on The Local.
The trail
The Old Emigration Trail
Two and a half city miles of a wagon road, shut in the middle since August.
Read the guideThe landform
Schneiter's Bluff
A thirty foot step decides which ground drains and which district bills the water.
Read the guideThe highway
The West Davis Corridor
A sixteen mile highway stops here, and three bridges are going up over city streets.
Read the guideThe Fourth
Party at the Point
A parade, four tournaments, a baby contest and a scramble the morning before.
Read the guideMoving here
The last farm ground
No field here develops until its irrigation water is signed over to the city.
Read the guideThe whole set
West Point, in full
A farm town with a published plan to triple, and the ordinance that opens the gate.
Open the companionQuick answers
The parks, answered.
The city publishes two lists and they are not identical. Its current facilities page, checked in August 2026, gives one football field, one playground, two soccer fields, two tennis courts, three baseball diamonds, three basketball courts, five boweries as one large and four small, a fire pit, restrooms and a sand volleyball court, with an orienteering course as a sub facility. The adopted Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan of 2 May 2023 adds 26.3 acres, four paved lots with 298 spaces, 29 picnic tables, ten benches, seven drinking fountains, water and power, and additionally lists a splash pad and a tot lot that the current page does not. Ring 801-776-0970 before a trip that depends on a specific feature.
A memorial at Loy F. Blake Park, dedicated on 11 November 2015. The city's August 2026 newsletter, written by the chair of the memorial committee, records that the committee has been in existence since about 2011 when the idea of a memorial first had its genesis, that after the dedication the mayor asked the committee to remain organised and serve as liaison between the city and its veterans, and that it was originally more than twenty people and now numbers four. The committee chair is Marv Drake, on 801-825-5321. The adopted parks plan lists the same feature simply as a veterans' memorial. The practical city guide on this site does not mention it at all.
Four, plus a cemetery, and the city publishes an inventory of all of them. Loy F. Blake Park is 26.3 acres and is the only regional park. East Park at 2550 West 330 North is 14.2 acres with 153 parking spaces, water and no power. Arnold T. Bingham Memorial Park at 4550 West 550 North is 8.8 acres with 57 spaces and neither power nor water. East Pocket Park at 1897 West 150 North is two tenths of an acre and is described in the adopted plan as a grassed detention basin with one single hoop basketball court, with on street parking only. Together the four total 49.5 acres, alongside a 4.2 acre cemetery and about 40.9 acres of city owned open space.
All city parks are open from seven in the morning to ten at night, or until dark depending on the lighting, and the city publishes that uniformly across every park. Dogs are permitted on a leash and owners must clean up after them. That second rule is worth checking rather than assuming when crossing a city line in this county, because it is not the same everywhere: at least two Davis County municipalities restrict animals in some or all of their parks. Boweries are reserved through an external booking portal linked from the city's own park pages rather than at City Hall.
The city's own two sources disagree, and this companion reports both rather than choosing. The adopted Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan of 2 May 2023 lists a splash pad among Loy Blake Park's amenities. The city's current facilities page for the same park, checked in August 2026, lists no splash pad. The same adopted plan separately records that 55.1 per cent of consultation respondents travel outside West Point for splash pads, which is a finding that sits awkwardly beside the amenity being listed. Telephone the city on 801-776-0970 before driving out for one.
None at any city park. The adopted parks plan's own inventory table reads zero pickleball courts at every site, and the plan records that residents asked for courts at either Bingham or Loy Blake when the city consulted them. That request sits alongside a perimeter walking path at Loy Blake, more trees at East Park, more benches, a skate park or pump track, a dog park at East Park, and basketball courts and a playground upgrade at Bingham. Those are requests made to a municipality and are reported here as that. One city over, sixteen lit pickleball courts are published at a single park.
The city does, through its own recorder, and it is the city's only special use facility. The West Point City Cemetery is at 80 North 4000 West and covers 4.2 acres. The city publishes cemetery regulations, a plot and headstone layout, a fee schedule, an information packet and a quick reference guide on etiquette, decorations and maintenance, and it runs an Annual Child Remembrance Ceremony and bi-annual complete cemetery cleanings. Casey Arnold is the city recorder and cemetery administrator, reachable through City Hall on 801-776-0970. The city's General Plan records that future cemetery expansions are planned or anticipated, which is a proposal rather than a built thing.
No. It is at 3176 South Bluff Road in Syracuse, the next city south, and Davis County's own lakeside parks page on The Local carries it in full, including the orienteering course, the visitor centre and the water rules. The practical city guide on this site lists it twice as being in West Point, once in its outdoor recreation section and once under things to do, and both are wrong. West Point has no pond to walk around anywhere inside its boundary, which is why the county's lakeside parks subject has nothing in this city to carry.
By its own standard, not at the numbers it publishes. The adopted parks plan recommends maintaining a level of service of 3.9 acres of park per thousand residents. On 49.5 acres and the 10,963 people counted in 2020, the city sits at roughly 4.5 acres per thousand today. Against its own General Plan extrapolation of 39,036 residents by 2050 and no new parks, the same sum lands near 1.3. Both inputs are published by the city in adopted documents. The plan attaches build out cost estimates of 55,667,500 dollars for parks and 13,333,000 dollars for trails and trailhead improvements, neither of which is funded.
Twenty six acres, 298 spaces and three quieter places nobody goes.
Parks are the part of a small town that a buyer can actually check in an afternoon, and West Point makes it easy because it publishes the whole inventory. What is worth doing before an offer is simple. Look at how far the address is from Loy Blake, because that is where the noise and the parking pressure land on the first Saturday in July. Look at whether the nearer park is the one with no power and no water. And ask the city what its bowery calendar looks like in June and July. Tell me which streets you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who knows the ground, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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