The Fourth West Point
A town of eleven thousand puts four tournaments, a parade and a golf scramble into thirty six hours
Party at the Point, and the four months of applications in front of it.
West Point City's Fourth of July celebration falls on the Fourth itself, and in 2026 that was Saturday 4 July at Loy F. Blake Park: a parade, a five kilometre run with a two mile walk, three on three basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball tournaments, a baby contest, a capped art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers and fireworks. The morning before, a four person golf scramble at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course at seven, sixty dollars a head with lunch. Vendor, entertainer and parade applications opened on 1 March at ten in the morning.
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
When is it, and what does the town actually do, with the 2026 edition checked in August 2026 and already past.
Party at the Point is West Point City's own Fourth of July celebration and it falls on the Fourth rather than on a nearest weekend. The 2026 edition was Saturday 4 July 2026, and the city's own event page, checked in August 2026, still carries the programme: a parade, a five kilometre run with a two mile walk beside it, three on three basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball tournaments, a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers and fireworks. No 2027 dates are published anywhere yet, and none is invented here.
The thing that sets this day apart is the tournament count. Four separate competitions plus a run plus a baby contest plus an art competition is a lot of scheduled activity for a town of eleven thousand, and it changes what the day is. This is not a park with a band on it. It is a programme, on one site, with brackets and entry lists, which is why applications open four months in advance and why the city runs its own registration system for it.
The day before is a golf tournament and the pairing is the neatest fact about the whole thing. Friday 3 July 2026 at seven in the morning at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course, sixty dollars a person for eighteen holes, a four person scramble, lunch provided and a free golf pass for every participant, with registration by telephone on 801-773-0731. The city's biggest single event and the city's biggest single piece of open ground, on consecutive mornings, and the ground in question is named for the landform that runs through the town.
The 2026 edition, in numbers
4 July 2026
the day itself, a Saturday
4
tournaments, plus a run, a baby contest and an art competition
$60
a head for the four person golf scramble the morning before
1 March
when vendor, entertainer and parade applications opened
The programme
Everything the city published for 2026, with what carries a price and what does not.
All rows checked at the city in August 2026 unless a row says otherwise. The 2026 edition has happened; this table is here because the shape of the day repeats and because the application windows are the part that matters to anybody planning ahead. Nothing below is a 2027 commitment and the city has published no 2027 dates.
| The element | When it ran in 2026 | What it cost | Where the detail comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| The golf tournament | Friday 3 July, seven in the morning, at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course | Sixty dollars a person for eighteen holes, a four person scramble, lunch provided and a free golf pass for every participant | The city's own event page, with booking by telephone on 801-773-0731 |
| The parade | Saturday 4 July | Free to watch. Parade entry required an application | The city's event page. No route is published in text on the city's pages |
| The five kilometre run and two mile walk | Saturday 4 July | Registered through the city's own online system, with late registration at City Hall on the first to third of July | The city's event page and registration portal |
| Three on three basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball | Saturday 4 July | Each a separate tournament with its own entry through the city's registration system | The city's event page |
| The baby contest and the art competition | Saturday 4 July, with the art contest capped at the first twenty entries | Entry by application. The art contest deadline was 30 June at five in the afternoon | The city's event page |
| Food trucks, vendors and entertainers | Saturday 4 July | Free to attend. Vendor and entertainer applications opened 1 March at ten in the morning | The city's event page |
| Fireworks | Saturday 4 July, in the evening | Free | The city's event listings. The launch point is not published in text on any city page |
| Woman of Honor and Grand Marshals | Named for 2026 as Annice Nixon, and Jay and Paula Ritchie | Not applicable | The city's own event page, an annual designation |
The city's Party at the Point page was checked in August 2026 and the golf, honoree and application details above are its own. The venue for the day's activities is Loy F. Blake Park; the fireworks launch location and the 2026 parade route are not published in text on any city page, so neither is described here. Registration runs at the city's own online portal. The city publishes no 2027 dates and none should be inferred from the 2026 pattern.
The details
Getting there
Everything centres on the one regional park, which sits a short way northwest of City Hall on the block bounded by 550 North and 3500 West. The city publishes 298 parking spaces there across four paved lots, which is generous for an ordinary Saturday and is the reason the park was built the way it was; on the Fourth it is the constraint. Streets around the park are the overflow, and in a town where many roads have no footway because of the agricultural road standards they were built to, walking in from a distance is worth thinking about in advance.
Before you go
- Applications open on the first of March at ten in the morning. If the plan is to trade, perform or enter the parade, that is the date to diarise rather than the Fourth.
- The golf scramble is booked by telephone on 801-773-0731 and is separate from everything on the city's online registration system.
- No parade route and no fireworks launch point is published in text by the city. Ring City Hall on 801-776-0970 nearer the time rather than relying on last year's memory.
- Loy Blake is heavily committed across June and July. If the plan involves a bowery on a summer Saturday, book it through the city's reservation portal months rather than weeks in advance.
One claim, attributed
The city says its Fourth rivals anyone around, and that sentence is the city's rather than this page's.
On its own About page the city writes that West Point is known for a 4th of July celebration that rivals anyone around. That is municipal marketing copy, published by the municipality about its own event, and it is quoted here as exactly that. No ranking body publishes a comparison of Fourth of July celebrations in Davis County, this page makes no finding about whether the claim is true, and nobody should repeat it as though somebody neutral had said it.
The reason for being fussy about a harmless sentence is that this kind of claim travels. An organiser writes a superlative on its own website, a listing site repeats it without attribution, a relocation summary picks it up from the listing site, and within two years a town has a fact about itself that nobody ever checked. It happens all over this county with parades, fireworks and festivals, and the cure is simply to name who said it.
What can be said without any hedging at all is the shape of the thing, because the city publishes the components. Four tournaments, a run and a walk, a baby contest, a capped art competition, a parade, food trucks, vendors, entertainers, fireworks, and a golf scramble the day before at a named course for a published price. Whether that beats the next town's is not a question this page will answer. That it is a substantial day, run by the city, with a four month application window in front of it, is not in doubt.
There is a second piece of programming worth recording with its own date stamp, because it expires. The city marked 2026 as the America 250 year, saying on its own home page in August 2026 that it was celebrating America 250 with an extra special Party at the Point celebration on July 4, and running a monthly community challenge alongside it, August's being a 250 mile walk, run, hike, bike or roll with no official tracking or sign up through the city. That was checked in August 2026 and it is a 2026 programme that will not exist in 2027.
A city can say what it likes about its own festival on its own website. What a page about the city can do is say who said it.
The other markets
Two more events happen at the same park and neither of them belongs to the city at all.
A private event company promotes a farmers market series at Loy Blake Park across the summer, and a fall festival and a Christmas market at the same park later in the year. The company's own site, checked in August 2026, lists a West Point Farmers Market on several dates from May to September, a West Point Fall Festival in October and a West Point Christmas Market in November, alongside its markets in three other towns and two unrelated seasonal events elsewhere in the state. It is a promoter running a circuit, and West Point is one stop on it.
The city's own community affairs and events page, read 20 August 2026, lists neither the fall festival nor the Christmas market among its programmes. What it lists is Party at the Point, movies at the park, a senior lunch, a youth council, a pageant, an Easter egg hunt, an essay contest, a lighting ceremony, a cemetery luminary and a city day of service. Three consecutive city newsletters, checked in August 2026, carry neither market either.
What the city does do is calendar them, in the same way it calendars anything held on its ground. The one instance confirmed at the city was a fall festival on Saturday 11 October 2025 from noon to four at Loy F. Blake Park. So the accurate description is a private promoter's market series held at the town's one big park and listed on the town's public calendar, which is a genuinely interesting fact about a place with a single large venue and is not a city festival.
This matters because it is the reason there is no page here about either market. Two different date pairs are currently circulating for the Christmas market, published under two related organiser names a week apart, and neither of them comes from the city. Printing either would be printing a promoter's schedule as though a municipality had committed to it, and the schedule of a private event moves. The city calendar is the place to look, and it is the only place worth looking.
The rest of the city's year, and what it costs
The city's August 2026 newsletter gives the shape of an ordinary month here. A senior lunch at Loy Blake Park at half past eleven, open to anyone fifty five and over at two dollars a head, with residents and non residents both welcome. A film in the park at dusk. City council on the first and third Tuesdays, with an administrative session at six and the general session at seven. Planning commission on the second and fourth Thursdays on the same pattern. An arts council meeting on the first Wednesday at half past five at City Hall.
The same newsletter publishes the autumn recreation programme with its prices: junior high girls' basketball for grades seven to nine at seventy dollars, street hockey for grades three to nine at sixty dollars, and co-ed volleyball for grades four to nine at fifty dollars, each with its own registration window running through the late summer. Registration is on the city's own recreation pages. Those are 2026 figures, checked on 16 August 2026, and they move annually.
Do not plan around a date for the fall festival or the Christmas market at Loy Blake Park. Neither is a city event and the dates in circulation do not agree with each other. Both are produced by a private event company rather than by West Point City, and the city's own events page lists neither among its programmes. For the Christmas market, the promoter's own site gives one pair of November dates and a separate listing under a related organiser name gives a pair a week later. Neither figure comes from the municipality, this companion prints no date for it, and the wave brief that carried one was working from the promoter's number. If the market matters to your plans, look at the city's public calendar close to the time or ring City Hall on 801-776-0970, and treat any date found on an events aggregator as unconfirmed.
Living with it
One day a year this town has a traffic problem, and the rest of the year it does not.
For a household weighing an address here, the Fourth is the one day the answer to how quiet is this street changes completely. Everything converges on twenty six acres with 298 parking spaces, a parade moves through the streets, and fireworks go off in the evening. If a house is within a few blocks of Loy Blake Park, that is a known and annual event, and it is exactly the sort of thing that is delightful to some households and intolerable to others. Nobody should be surprised by it and nobody should be sold past it.
What is genuinely useful about the day, though, is that it is the best available way to see the town. A place with one big park, one big Saturday and four tournaments on it puts most of itself in one field for eight hours. Anybody seriously considering West Point who can arrange to be here on the Fourth will learn more in an afternoon than from any amount of reading, including this.
The rest of the year is small and regular: a monthly lunch, a film at dusk in the summer, council on two Tuesdays, planning on two Thursdays, and a set of youth recreation programmes with published fees. That is the civic life of a town that has no downtown to gather in and one park that does everything. The parks page carries the ground itself, the acreages, the parking counts and the memorial, and it is worth reading alongside this one because in West Point the venue and the event are very nearly the same subject.
One last practical note about fireworks in particular. No published source carries the launch location, a fireworks restriction map or the city's own fireworks ordinance published in text on any page it could read. Utah cities routinely designate restricted areas, and in a municipality with substantial open agricultural ground and a marsh beyond the western line, that is not a formality. Ring City Hall before assuming anything about where private fireworks are permitted at an address, in July or at the New Year.
The venue
Loy Blake Park
The twenty six acres underneath the day, with the parking counts, the boweries and the memorial.
Read the guideThe golf course
Schneiter's Bluff
The landform the course is named for, and the two water districts it divides at about 4100 West.
Read the guideThe wider county
Family weekends in Davis County
Days out across the county, priced and seasoned in one place, with the free ones listed first.
Read the guideKeep 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 parks
Loy Blake Park
Twenty six acres, 298 parking spaces, and a memorial dedicated one November day.
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 Fourth, answered.
On the Fourth of July itself rather than on a nearest weekend. The 2026 edition fell on Saturday 4 July, and the city's own event page, checked in August 2026, published a parade, a five kilometre run with a two mile walk, three on three basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball tournaments, a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers and fireworks. The city has published no 2027 dates, and because the celebration is fixed to the date rather than to a weekend, the day of the week changes from year to year. Everything centres on Loy F. Blake Park at 3500 West 550 North.
Yes, on the morning before. The city published the 2026 tournament as Friday 3 July at seven in the morning at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course, at sixty dollars per person for eighteen holes, played as a four person scramble, with lunch provided and a free golf pass for every participant, and registration by telephone on 801-773-0731. It is a separate event with its own price and its own booking arrangement rather than part of the Fourth of July registration. The course itself is privately owned and operated and runs to 136.3 acres, which is larger than every city park put together.
On the first of March. The city published that vendor applications, entertainer applications and parade entry applications for 2026 all opened on 1 March 2026 at ten in the morning, through the city's own online registration system. The art contest ran on a different clock, with a deadline of 30 June at five in the afternoon and a cap of the first twenty entries. Late registration for the five kilometre run was available at City Hall from the first to the third of July. For anybody who wants to be in the day rather than at it, the first of March is the date that matters.
The city named Annice Nixon as its 2026 Woman of Honor, and Jay and Paula Ritchie as Grand Marshals. Both designations are annual and are published on the city's own Party at the Point page, checked in August 2026. The city does not publish the criteria or the selection process for either. Because the honorees change every year, the names above are stamped to 2026 and should not be carried forward; the city's own event page is the place to check the current ones.
Neither is published in text on any city page, and neither is described here. The city's event listings give Loy F. Blake Park as the venue for the day's activities, and the fireworks are understood to be part of the evening there, but no launch location and no parade route appear in writing on the city's own pages. That is a genuine gap rather than a secret, and the right way to close it is to ring City Hall on 801-776-0970 nearer the time. The same applies to any fireworks restriction map, which is not published for West Point.
No. A private event company promotes a farmers market series, a fall festival and a Christmas market at the park, and its own site listed all three for 2026 when checked in August 2026. West Point City's own community affairs and events page, checked in August 2026, lists neither the fall festival nor the Christmas market among its programmes, and three consecutive city newsletters carry neither. What the city does is calendar them the way it calendars anything held on its ground; the one instance verifiable at the city was a fall festival on Saturday 11 October 2025 from noon to four at the park.
This companion prints no date for it, because two competing pairs are in circulation under two related organiser names about a week apart, and neither comes from the city. The market is a private promoter's event held at Loy F. Blake Park rather than a West Point City programme, and the city's own events page does not list it. A promoter's schedule can move without anybody publishing a correction. If it matters to your plans, check the city's public calendar close to the time or ring City Hall on 801-776-0970, and treat any date found on an events aggregator as unconfirmed.
The city's own community affairs and events page lists Party at the Point, movies at the park, a senior lunch, a youth council, a pageant, an Easter egg hunt, an essay contest, a lighting ceremony, a cemetery luminary and a city day of service. Only some of those carry published dates. The August 2026 newsletter gives the monthly rhythm: a senior lunch at Loy Blake Park at half past eleven for anyone fifty five and over at two dollars a head, a film in the park at dusk, city council on the first and third Tuesdays and planning commission on the second and fourth Thursdays, each with a work session at six and a general session at seven.
Yes, with published fees, and they are set out in the city's own monthly newsletter rather than on a listing site. The August 2026 edition, checked in August 2026, gave junior high girls' basketball for grades seven to nine at seventy dollars with registration from 1 August to 6 September, street hockey for grades three to nine at sixty dollars with registration from 9 July to 23 August, and co-ed volleyball for grades four to nine at fifty dollars with registration from 1 August to 1 September. Registration runs on the city's own recreation pages. Those are 2026 figures and they move annually.
One Saturday that puts most of the town in one field.
If you can arrange to be in West Point on the Fourth of July, do it before you look at a single house. A town with one park, one big day and four tournaments running on it shows you almost everything about itself in an afternoon: who turns out, how the streets handle it, what the parking is really like and how far the fireworks carry. If you cannot, the next best thing is to stand near the park on an ordinary Tuesday and imagine it full. Tell me which streets are on your list and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who can time a viewing usefully, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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