The festival Taylorsville
Spelled with two z's, and locals will tell you so
Taylorsville Dayzz, three days and a fireworks finale
For three days at the end of June, a county regional park on 2700 West turns into a fairground, and walking in costs nothing. There is a parade, a petting zoo, carnival rides, food booths, evening concerts, a 5K and kids run, a free car show and a fireworks finale, all put on by a volunteer committee rather than a city events office. Here are the dates, what is on, and the two hours of the weekend worth planning around.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Taylorsville Dayzz is the city's big summer festival, held over the last full weekend of June, Thursday through Saturday, at Valley Regional Park on 2700 West. In 2026 that fell on June 25, 26 and 27. Admission is free and always has been; you only pay once you are inside, for carnival rides, food and anything from a vendor. The weekend carries a parade, a petting zoo, carnival rides, food booths, evening concerts, a 5K and kids run, a free car show and a fireworks finale. The thing worth knowing in advance is who runs it: a volunteer committee, not a city events department, which is why you call a person rather than an office to ask anything about it.
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What is on
Eight things spread across three days and one park
The lineup has held steady for years, which helps, because you can plan around the shape of the weekend before the current year's timings are posted. Here is what is on, and what each part asks of you.
Across the three days the festival keeps a familiar shape. The parade is the centerpiece of the main morning and the single biggest movement of people and cars in the city's year, so the streets around the route and the park fill early. The carnival runs all three days, with rides ticketed separately from admission, so bring a way to pay even though getting in is free. The 5K and kids run go off early on their morning, with entries handled through the committee's own race organizer.
Daytime also brings the free car show, set up on the park's open ground, along with the petting zoo and rows of food and exhibitor booths, both of which run on applications with deadlines months ahead. In the evenings the main stage takes over with concerts, free with admission, and that is what keeps the park full after the daytime events pack down. The fireworks close the final night.
Underneath all of it are the volunteers. This is not a city department with an events inbox; the committee recruits volunteers every year, and the weekend is only as good as the people who turn out to run it.
The applications close long before the festival does. Volunteering, performing, entering the parade, running a food booth, taking an exhibitor space and sponsoring all go through separate forms with their own deadlines, most of them months ahead of June. If you want to take part rather than just attend, the month to act is not June. The committee lists chairman Jim Dunnigan at 801-840-1800, with a named organizer for volunteers, sponsors, the 5K, booths, the parade and entertainment.
The name
Two z's, spelled that way on purpose
The spelling is the first thing anyone tells you about this festival, and it is worth getting right. Dayzz, with two z's, is how the committee and the city both write it, and how they always have. There is no clever backstory on offer and it does not need one; what matters is that it is deliberate and consistent. Spell it with one z and your search turns up thin, and anyone who lives here will put you right.
The spelling hints at the character of the thing. This is a volunteer festival, not a municipal program, and it shows in the details. The 5K is run by the committee's own race organizer, the car show is a local production, and when the city turned thirty in 2026 it set a festival video to an original song written for the occasion by a local business owner rather than licensing one off a shelf. Small choices like that tell you who is actually running the weekend.
A festival that writes its own anniversary song and runs its own 5K is not being put on by an agency.
Getting there
What to settle first, because two of the three days have a rush hour
Most of this festival is turn up and it is fine. Two moments are not: the parade in the morning and the fireworks at the end. Both concentrate the whole city into a few streets around one park at once, and both are entirely predictable.
| The easy hours | The two pinch points | |
|---|---|---|
| When | Weekday afternoons and evenings, and the daytime between the parade and the concerts | Parade morning, and the closing night before the fireworks |
| Parking | Around the park on the 2700 West corridor, generally manageable | Fills early. Local practice is to walk or cycle in from the surrounding streets |
| Getting in | Free, straight in | Free, and slow, because everybody arrives inside the same half hour |
| With small children | Petting zoo, playground and the open ground, all easy | Crowded and loud, and the fireworks finish late for a young bedtime |
| What to bring | A way to pay for rides and food, since only admission is free | The same, plus patience with the traffic and a plan for where you left the car |
| What is running overhead | Nothing unusual | The city notes police drones may be in use during the activities |
Take the dates from the committee, not from a listings site. A three day festival at the end of June is the kind of event that aggregator pages keep a stale date on, sometimes for years. In 2026 it ran June 25 to 27. The committee posts each year's dates on its own site and the city lists them on its calendar, and those are the two to plan a trip around.
The rest of the year
Three hundred and sixty two days when this is an ordinary city
The festival is the loudest thing here and it is three days long. These are the pages for everything else, plus the county page for planning a Saturday that runs wider than one boundary.
The ground
Valley Regional Park
The county park underneath the carnival, with a pool, a library and eighteen disc golf baskets.
The park pageThe rest
The top 7, ranked
What is worth a trip in Taylorsville on the other fifty-one weekends.
The ranked listThe corridor
The Redwood Road spine
A survey line that became a highway, a campus loop with its own route number, and a theater.
The corridorDays out
Weekends in the valley
The county's outings sorted so the price is the first thing you see, for the rest of the summer.
Read the guideKeep reading
More of Taylorsville on The Local
Things to do
The top 7, ranked
A county theater, a 5,000 seat arena, a confluence and a farmhouse from 1906.
Read the guideThe river
The Jordan River trail system
The city that publishes the whole trail instead of its own slice of it.
Read the guideThe park
Valley Regional Park
About ninety acres, eighteen disc golf baskets, a pool and a library on one lawn.
Read the guideThe corridor
The Redwood Road spine
Named for rot proof survey stakes, and now carrying its own state highway.
Read the guideMoving here
A mid valley address
Equidistant from everything, and landlord to almost none of its own landmarks.
Read the guideThe companion
Taylorsville, the whole picture
The theater, the river system, the county park, the festival and the corridor, together.
Read the pageQuick answers
The festival, answered
Taylorsville Dayzz runs over the last full weekend of June, Thursday through Saturday. In 2026 that was June 25, 26 and 27 at Valley Regional Park, 5100 South 2700 West. The dates shift by a few days each year, so check the current ones on the committee's site or the city's calendar before you plan a trip around them.
Yes. Admission is free and always has been. What costs money once you are inside is carnival ride tickets, food from the booths and anything bought from a vendor. The evening concerts on the main stage are free with admission. So there is no gate price to budget, but plan for real spending if the carnival is why the kids came.
Because that is the name. The committee and the city both spell it Dayzz, and always have. It is not a typo and not a later restyling of a plainer name. The practical reason to get it right: searching with one z turns up fewer and worse results, and everyone who lives here spells it with two.
At Valley Regional Park, 5100 South 2700 West, the Salt Lake County park officially named the Gary C. Swensen Valley Regional Park. For the three days of the festival the disc golf course, the softball fields and most of the open ground turn into the fairground. The pool, the library and the recreation center on the same site stay where they are. The rest of the year it is an ordinary county park.
A parade, a petting zoo, carnival rides, food booths, evening concerts on a main stage, a 5K with a kids run, a free car show and a fireworks finale, spread across the three days. The lineup has been steady for years, so you can plan around its shape before the current year's running order is posted.
Yes. The committee called 2026 its milestone thirtieth year, and the city marked the same weekend as Taylorsville's thirtieth birthday, since the city was created on July 1, 1996. The festival and the city grew up together, which is why the two anniversaries land in the same summer.
Around the park along the 2700 West corridor, and it fills up. Two moments pull the whole city onto a few streets at once: the parade in the morning and the fireworks on the closing night. For both, locals walk or bike in from the surrounding streets rather than fight for a space by the park, and they note where they left the car before the crowd builds.
Through the committee's own application forms. Volunteering, performing, entering the parade, running a food booth, taking an exhibitor space and sponsoring are separate forms with their own deadlines, most of them well before June. Unauthorized vending is prohibited. The committee lists chairman Jim Dunnigan at 801-840-1800, with a named organizer for each part of the festival.
The city notes that Taylorsville City Police may fly drones during the festival, for overall safety and security, to help locate lost children, and to manage any emergency. It is worth knowing in advance if aircraft over a suburban park would otherwise take you by surprise.
One weekend a year this city is unmistakable, and quieter for the other fifty one
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