The city park Roosevelt
Roosevelt's main recreation ground, on the west side of town
Constitution Park, Roosevelt: two pavilions, lighted fields and a free pump track
Constitution Park is Roosevelt's main sports ground, one of the city's five parks: a single site with two pavilions, lighted baseball and soccer fields, a volleyball court, a skate park, a bike pump track, a walking path and a playground, with the Parks and Recreation office beside them. It is free and open every day, and in the last days of July the Uintah Basin In Celebration festival takes the whole ground over. One honest note before you drive there: the city lists two different addresses for the park, so navigate by the sign.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Constitution Park is Roosevelt's main recreation ground, the single site on the west side of town, off 200 South, where the city puts the play that needs room: two pavilions, picnic tables, restrooms, lighted baseball and soccer fields, a volleyball court, a skate park, a bike pump track, a walking path and a playground. The Parks and Recreation office sits right beside it, which is why nearly every organized league in town runs out of this one address.
For a town of about 7,000 people the park carries more than most: lighted fields keep league nights going after dark, and a purpose built pump track that costs nothing to use is the sort of amenity small cities usually skip. It is busiest in summer, and for the last days of July into early August the Uintah Basin In Celebration festival takes the whole site over. Before you drive over, one honest warning: the city lists two different addresses for this ground, so aim for the park sign rather than the number.
Where it is
The city lists two addresses for the same park
This is a real conflict on the city's own pages, not a typo to pick a side on. Nobody outside city hall can say which number is on the deed.
Roosevelt City's parks page gives Constitution Park as 790 South 200 West. The city's own Parks and Recreation office, described on the same site as sitting close to the park, the walking path, the soccer and ball fields and the skate park, is listed at 790 West 200 South. Those are the same two numbers with the directions swapped, and both appear on the city's website at the same time, which is the whole problem.
The list does not stop at two. A city calendar entry for the Uintah Basin car show gives the park as 200 South 1000 West, and a third party business listing offers another variant again. In a grid town where the streets are numbered from a single origin, a transposition like that puts you the better part of a mile from where you meant to be, which matters if you are meeting somebody or arriving for a game.
None of this is worth a complaint. It is what twenty years of different websites and different staff do to a small city's pages. The practical answer is to navigate by the park sign rather than by the number, and to call the city when you need certainty.
Call the city rather than trusting a pin dropped from a directory. Roosevelt City is at 255 South State Street on 435-722-5001, open Monday to Thursday from 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening, and closed on Friday. That four day week is the city's normal schedule rather than a holiday arrangement, and it catches out anybody who leaves an administrative question to a Friday morning. If the question is about a reservation, the online registration system is quicker than either.
The week the basin arrives
UBIC takes the park in the last days of July
UBIC stands for Uintah Basin In Celebration, and it is the town's summer festival, staged at Constitution Park each year in the last days of July into early August. The date that does not move is the parade on the first Saturday in August, which runs down Main Street and State Street and is followed by a free concert and a fireworks show.
Around the parade sit the pieces a basin town does properly. A free pancake breakfast on the Friday morning at the UBTech Roosevelt campus. A pageant at the junior high. An arts, crafts and quilt show beside Constitution Park, showing work made across the basin. Several days of park programming for children. It is run largely by volunteers rather than as a ticketed festival, and the closing concert is free, so the dates and venues shift a little each year and the city calendar is the place to confirm the current one.
The parade route is the part that affects everybody, including people with no intention of attending. Main Street through Roosevelt is US-40, joined by US-191, and it is the only through route across the basin. State Street carries the rest of the town's traffic. Closing both for a Saturday morning parade in August means a genuine detour rather than a diversion around one block, so if you are passing through, build it into the day, and if you are attending, park once and walk.
The park also picks up set pieces through the year: Independence Day celebrations have been held here, and the Roosevelt Interfaith Council has run concert evenings on the covered stage at Old Mill Park rather than at this one. Both are volunteer run and neither is fixed enough to build a trip around, so check the city calendar before you plan a specific evening.
The five parks
Five parks in a city under seven square miles
Which park you live near genuinely changes daily life in a town this size, and the five are not interchangeable. Constitution Park is covered above; here is what the other four carry.
The Roosevelt Nature Park, at 500 North State Street, spreads over 14 acres and holds a walking path, a small amphitheater, a fishing pond, a pavilion with picnic tables and a short hiking trail, and it is the one people drive across town for rather than walk to.
Central Park, at 91 West 100 North, sits in the square with the aquatic center and the library. It carries a lighted basketball court, a playground, restrooms, a pavilion and baseball fields, which makes it the practical afternoon stop rather than the weekend one.
Old Mill Park, at 278 East 100 North, is the one built for sitting still: covered picnic tables and a covered amphitheater stage used for outdoor performances.
Centennial Park, at 940 South 500 East behind Centennial Elementary, is open ground used for youth football.
Facilities in a small city get added and rebuilt without the web page always catching up, so confirm the detail you are relying on before you plan around it.
What the recreation department runs
City recreation: leagues, an aquatic center and one booking system
Roosevelt's Parks and Recreation department runs the usual youth and adult leagues and then some, and it all books through one place. On the youth side: junior golf, baseball, softball and t-ball, junior jazz basketball, soccer, football, frisbee golf and volleyball. On the adult side: softball, volleyball and men's basketball. There are travel teams as well, plus field and pavilion reservations and the Roosevelt Aquatic Center in the Central Park square.
Everything registers through the city's online registration and reservation system, which is genuinely the fastest way to deal with any of it and worth setting up an account on before a season starts rather than during one. Seasons and schedules are published there rather than on the main city pages, and in a town where a single league can fill in a week, that is where the information is freshest.
The aquatic center keeps its own season, the way every municipal pool in a place with a real winter does, so check current hours, lessons and open swim times through the city rather than assuming last summer's timetable holds. The library sits in the same square, which makes a hot basin afternoon easy to fill without leaving one block.
Two things to know first
Two rules that catch visitors out here
The first is the four day week. Roosevelt City operates Monday to Thursday, 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening, from 255 South State Street on 435-722-5001, and it is closed on Friday. That is the normal schedule rather than a seasonal one. Anybody arriving on a Friday expecting to sort a reservation, a utility connection or a permit in person is going to be disappointed, and the online system is the answer for most of it.
The second is that a barbecue in a city pavilion and a fire ring on rural ground a few miles away can sit under different orders on the same afternoon. Roosevelt City has published an exemption for its own incorporated limits when a burn order covers the country around it, and the national forest above the basin publishes its own restrictions on a separate schedule. The south slope page works through how to read each of the three.
The habit that works is simple. Before lighting anything, establish which of the three you are standing on, then check that one and nothing else. In a dry basin summer that distinction is not pedantry: at the stricter end an order has typically stopped open flame and charcoal outright while still allowing a gas stove with a shut off valve used clear of vegetation, so two pieces of ground a few minutes apart can genuinely be the difference between dinner and a citation.
Check the order for the exact ground, not for the town. This catches people out because the boundary is invisible from a car. A city park, a field on unincorporated county land and a campground on national forest answer to three different authorities, and each publishes on its own schedule. Call Roosevelt City on 435-722-5001 for anything inside the limits, read the state's own order for the county ground, and take the forest's alerts page for anything above the boundary. One phone call beats an assumption every time.
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Roosevelt City lists two pavilions, picnic tables, restrooms, lighted baseball and soccer fields, a volleyball court, a skate park, a bike pump track, a walking path and a playground. The city's Parks and Recreation office sits beside it, which is why most organized sport in town runs through this one site. It is also the ground the town's summer celebration takes over in the last days of July into early August.
The city's own pages do not agree. Its parks page gives 790 South 200 West, while the Parks and Recreation office, described as sitting beside the park, is listed at 790 West 200 South, the same two numbers swapped around. A city calendar entry used 200 South 1000 West and a third party listing offers another variant, so aim for the park sign or call Roosevelt City on 435-722-5001.
Uintah Basin In Celebration runs at Constitution Park each year in the last days of July into early August. The date that never moves is the parade on the first Saturday in August, down Main Street and State Street, with a free concert and fireworks to follow. A free pancake breakfast is served on the Friday morning at the UBTech Roosevelt campus. It is run largely by volunteers, so read the city calendar for the current year's dates.
Yes, and it has to. Main Street through Roosevelt is US-40, joined by US-191, and it is the only through route across the Uinta Basin. State Street carries the rest of the town's traffic. Closing both for a Saturday morning parade in August means a genuine detour rather than a diversion around one block, so anybody passing through should build the delay into the day and anybody attending should park once and walk.
Five named parks in a city under seven square miles. Constitution Park on the west side of town, the 14 acre Roosevelt Nature Park at 500 North State Street, Central Park at 91 West 100 North with the aquatic center and the library in the same square, Old Mill Park at 278 East 100 North with a covered amphitheater stage, and Centennial Park at 940 South 500 East behind Centennial Elementary with open fields used for youth football.
Through the city's online registration and reservation system, which handles pavilions, fields, recreation programs and the aquatic center. That is faster than a phone call and it is where seasons and schedules are published. If you need a person, the Parks and Recreation office sits beside Constitution Park, and Roosevelt City is on 435-722-5001 from Monday to Thursday, 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening.
On the youth side, junior golf, baseball, softball and t-ball, junior jazz basketball, soccer, football, frisbee golf and volleyball. On the adult side, softball, volleyball and men's basketball. There are travel teams as well, plus field and pavilion reservations and the Roosevelt Aquatic Center in the Central Park square. All of it registers through the city's online system, where the current seasons and schedules are published.
Yes. Roosevelt City operates a four day week from 255 South State Street on 435-722-5001, open Monday to Thursday from 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening and closed on Friday. That is the normal schedule rather than a holiday arrangement, and it catches out anybody who leaves a reservation, a utility connection or a permit question to a Friday morning. The online system covers most routine business.
Usually, but check first, because the ground inside the city limits and the ground outside them do not always answer the same way in a dry summer. Roosevelt City has published an exemption for its own incorporated limits when a fire order covers the country around it, and the national forest above the basin publishes separate restrictions again. Call Roosevelt City on 435-722-5001 before lighting anything, and check the ground you are actually on.
A pump track, five parks and a parade down a federal highway
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