The Fourth West Point
West Point's own Fourth of July, at Loy Blake Park
Party at the Point, West Point's Fourth of July
Party at the Point is West Point City's Fourth of July celebration, and it runs on Independence Day itself at Loy Blake Park. Expect a parade, a 5K run with a 2 mile walk, four tournaments, a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers and fireworks after dark, with a golf scramble at Schneiter's Bluff the morning before. It is a full day for a small farm town, and if you can be here for it, you will learn more about West Point in one afternoon than from any amount of reading.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Party at the Point is West Point's Fourth of July celebration, held on Independence Day itself at Loy Blake Park, the city's one big park at 3500 West 550 North. It packs a parade, a 5K run and a 2 mile walk, four tournaments, a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers and evening fireworks into a single day, with a golf scramble at Schneiter's Bluff the morning before. It is free to turn up to; a few pieces, the golf and some contests, have their own entry. Because it lands on July 4 rather than a set weekend, the day of the week moves year to year, so check the city's events page for the current schedule before you plan around it.
What the day is like
A small town that puts almost all of itself into one park for a day
What sets Party at the Point apart from a park with a band on it is how much runs at once. There is a parade in the morning, a 5K run with a 2 mile walk beside it, and four separate tournaments, three on three basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball, going on through the day. Add a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors and entertainers, and by evening the fireworks. It is a real program, on one site, with brackets and entry lists, which is why the city runs its own registration for it rather than just opening a gate.
West Point's own About page calls it a Fourth of July that "rivals anyone around." That is the city talking about its own party, so take it as pride rather than a ranking; nobody neutral keeps a scoreboard of Davis County celebrations. What is not in doubt is the shape of the thing. For a farm town on the far west edge of the county, a parade, four tournaments, a run, and fireworks over Loy Blake Park is a genuinely full day, and it is the one day a year the whole town turns out in the same field.
The golf scramble the morning before is the neat pairing. It plays at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course, a privately run course on the thirty foot bluff the town is named for, so the city's biggest day and the biggest piece of open ground in it fall on back to back mornings. The scramble is booked separately from everything else, and the course sets its own tee time and price, so treat it as its own event. Each year the celebration also names Grand Marshals and a Woman of Honor; those change annually, so the current names live on the city's events page rather than here.
Getting there and planning ahead
One park, one busy day, and a parking crunch to plan around
Everything for the day sits at Loy Blake Park, a short way northwest of City Hall on the block bounded by 550 North and 3500 West. The park has four paved lots holding about 298 cars, which is plenty on an ordinary Saturday and is exactly why it was built that way. On the Fourth it is the constraint. The streets around the park take the overflow, and because many West Point roads have no sidewalk, a legacy of the town's agricultural road standards, it is worth planning to park a few blocks out and walk in.
If you want to be in the day rather than just at it, the timing that matters is not the Fourth, it is late winter. Applications for the parade, for vendors and for entertainers open months ahead, in the spring, through the city's own registration system, and the art competition is capped and closes on its own deadline. The golf scramble at Schneiter's Bluff is booked separately from all of that. West Point also sits at the far west edge of Davis County, and the newly completed West Davis Highway now reaches this side of the valley, so getting here from I-15 is easier than it was a few years ago.
Before you go
- Watch the city's events page in late winter. If you want to trade, perform or enter the parade, spring is when the applications open, not summer.
- The golf scramble is its own event with its own booking and price. Sort it out with the course rather than through the Fourth of July registration.
- The parade route and the fireworks are set each year and are not always posted far ahead. The city's events page, or a call to City Hall closer to the date, is the reliable source.
- Loy Blake Park is booked solid across June and July. If you want a pavilion for a summer Saturday of your own, reserve it through the city months in advance, not weeks.
Other days at the park
The fall festival and Christmas market are not city events
A couple of other things happen at Loy Blake Park worth sorting out, because they get mixed up with the city's own calendar. A private event company runs a summer farmers market at the park, plus a fall festival and a Christmas market later in the year. Those are the promoter's events, not West Point City's. The city lists them on its public calendar the way it lists anything held on its ground, but it does not put them on.
The practical difference is reliability. A city event tends to hold its date; a private promoter's schedule can move, and for the Christmas market in particular you will find more than one date floating around online. So if one of these is the reason you are coming, confirm it on the city's public calendar close to the time rather than trusting a date you found on an events aggregator. Party at the Point is the one at this park that is genuinely West Point's, start to finish.
If you live near the park
One loud day a year, and a quiet town the rest of it
If you are looking at a house near Loy Blake Park, the Fourth is worth picturing before you fall for the address. The park fills, a parade moves through the streets, and fireworks go off in the evening. Within a few blocks it is a known, annual event, the kind some people love and others would happily be out of town for. It is not a reason to rule a street in or out, just something to know so it is not a surprise.
The flip side is that the day is the best way to read the town. West Point has one big park and one big day, and it puts most of itself in one field for an afternoon. If you are seriously weighing a move here, arranging to be around on the Fourth will tell you more than another evening of listings.
The rest of the year, this is a quiet place. West Point is a farm town on the far west edge of Davis County that is turning to subdivisions field by field, a story told on the last farm ground and across the rest of West Point on The Local. There is no old downtown to gather in, so the one park does most of the civic work, and the parade and fireworks are the loud exception rather than the rule. If you want the practical side, what homes cost and how the neighborhoods lay out, that lives on the West Point city page.
One practical note on fireworks. Utah cities set restricted areas for personal fireworks, and with open farm ground and a marsh along the west side of town, the rules here vary by location. Check with the city before assuming you can light your own at a given address, whether in July or at New Year.
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Quick answers
The Fourth, answered
Party at the Point is West Point's Fourth of July celebration, held on Independence Day itself at Loy Blake Park rather than on a set weekend. Because it lands on July 4, the day of the week changes from year to year, so check the city's events page for the current schedule.
A parade, a 5K run with a 2 mile walk, tournaments in 3-on-3 basketball, horseshoe, cornhole and volleyball, a baby contest, an art competition, food trucks, vendors, entertainers, and fireworks after dark. The lineup holds from year to year even though the exact times move.
At Loy F. Blake Park, 3500 West 550 North, which is West Point's only regional park and where the fireworks are set off. Everything for the day centers on that one park, and its four paved lots hold about 298 cars, so plan to walk in from a few blocks out.
Yes, a four person scramble the morning before at Schneiter's Bluff Golf Course, a privately run course on the bluff the town is named for. It is booked separately from the Fourth of July events, and the course sets its own tee time and price each year, so check with the course for the current details.
Applications for the parade, for vendors and for entertainers open months ahead, in the spring, through the city's own registration system, and the art competition is capped with its own deadline. If you want to be in the day rather than just at it, watch the city's events page in late winter for the dates.
Each year West Point names Grand Marshals and a Woman of Honor for the celebration. Both are annual, so the city's events page is the place to see who is named for the current year rather than carrying last year's names forward.
The city sets the parade route and the fireworks each year, and they are not always posted far in advance. The city's events page, or a call to City Hall closer to the date, is the reliable source rather than last year's memory.
No. A private event company runs a farmers market, a fall festival and a Christmas market at the park. The city lists them on its public calendar but does not put them on, and their dates move, so confirm on the city's calendar rather than on an events aggregator.
Beyond Party at the Point, the city runs movies in 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 day of service, along with seasonal youth recreation. Dates and any fees are on the city's events page.
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 settle on a house. One park, one big day, and four tournaments running on it show you most of what you want to know in an afternoon: how the streets handle a crowd, what the parking is really like, and how far the fireworks carry. Tell me which streets are on your list and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows them, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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