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The lake door Lindon

One address on a shoreline, not a lake

The Lindon Marina, at the end of 600 South.

Two launch ramps, eighteen slips, a general store, a recreational vehicle park and a sand beach at 2130 West 600 South, run privately, which makes it the odd one out among Utah Lake's five developed access points. The fee card, the rental fleet, the hours, the parking and the honest state of the approach, with everything about the lake itself handed to the page that owns it.

By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated August 2026

Southern Utah is my home turf. Lindon is not, so these pages are researched rather than lived: checked against city, county and venue sources, and dated so you can see how fresh they are. For the on-the-ground work here I lean on a Utah County partner agent.

Start here


One address, two ramps and the only private harbour on the lake.

Six hundred South is the road to the water in Lindon. It runs west out of the commercial middle of the city, crosses the industrial west end, and stops at 2130 West against Utah Lake. What is there is a working harbour rather than a boat ramp: two launch ramps, a courtesy dock, eighteen slips on a secured dock, extensive dry storage, a general store, picnic tables, a recreational vehicle park and a sand beach.

The Utah Lake Authority counts five developed access points around the lake, one per shoreline city, and this is the only one that is privately owned and operated. Every other door onto this water is a state park, a city harbour or a county beach. That single fact explains most of what is different about the place: the fee card is granular, the rental fleet is the best on the lake, the store actually sells things, and the opening hours belong to a business rather than to a published municipal season.

The practical shape of a visit here is simple. You pay at the entrance by the vehicle or on foot, you park close to the water because the site is not large, and you either launch something, rent something or sit on the beach. It is about eight minutes from State Street and about three miles, which makes it the shortest drive to a working harbour available anywhere in the middle of Utah Valley.

The harbour in numbers

2

launch ramps, plus a courtesy dock

18

slips on the secured dock

$10

a car for day use, checked August 2026

1 of 5

developed access points on the lake, and the only private one

What it costs


A fee card with eight lines on it, which is seven more than most ramps publish.

This is the most useful thing on the page and it is also the thing most likely to have moved by the time you read it. Every figure below is the operator's published August 2026 number. A private business can change any of them without a council meeting, so treat the table as the shape of the pricing rather than as a quotation.

What you are doingThe published rateWhat it covers
Arriving by carTen dollars a dayDay use for the vehicle, the beach, the picnic tables and the shore
Arriving on foot or by bicycleThree dollars a dayThe same site access without a vehicle in the lot
Putting a boat inTen dollars a dayUse of the ramps and the courtesy dock
Leaving a boat overnightTwenty five dollars a day or nightA temporary slip, with a hundred and fifty a week and three hundred a month
Keeping a boat hereSix hundred dollars a yearAn annual slip on the secured dock, of which there are eighteen
Sleeping in a vehicleSixty dollars a night on full hookupsThe attached recreational vehicle park, or forty on electric only
Staying a week or moreFifty dollars a night on full hookupsThe weekly rate, or thirty five a night on electric only
Coming in winterFifty dollars a nightThe winter recreational vehicle rate, roughly 15 October to 15 March

Rates as published by the Lindon Marina and checked 9 August 2026. This is a private operator rather than a public agency, so nothing here is set by ordinance and nothing here is guaranteed to survive a season. Confirm on 801-980-1104 before you plan a budget around it, and confirm again if you are booking a slip or a pitch rather than turning up for an afternoon.

The rental fleet


The best answer on this lake for anybody who owns nothing that floats.

This is the marina's real edge over the four public access points and it is the reason to choose it. There is a fleet here rather than a token rack: paddleboards, single kayaks, two person kayaks, child sized kayaks, canoes and small Sunfish sailboats, all launching straight off the sand beach without a trailer, a roof rack or a drive.

The published rate structure rewards a long session. A paddleboard or a single kayak costs ten dollars for the first hour and five dollars for every hour after it. A two person kayak runs twenty then ten. A child sized kayak is five an hour. Oars and buoyancy aids come with the rental rather than as an extra, and half day and full day arrangements and group rates exist by request.

The fleet is a summer proposition and it is worth saying plainly. Rentals run through the warm months rather than the calendar year, availability on a hot Saturday afternoon is genuinely finite, and the operator sets the pattern rather than a published season. Ringing ahead on the day is not being cautious here, it is the normal way people use this place.

The store matters more than it sounds. A general store on site means ice, drinks, basic tackle and the small forgotten things that otherwise end a trip early, and it is the only one of the lake's five access points where that is true in the same building as the ramp.

What you rentFirst hourEach hour after
PaddleboardTen dollarsFive dollars
Kayak, singleTen dollarsFive dollars
Kayak, two personTwenty dollarsTen dollars
Kayak, child sizedFive dollars an hourFive dollars an hour
CanoeBy arrangement with the operatorAsk about half and full day rates
Sunfish sailboatBy arrangement with the operatorAsk about half and full day rates

Rental rates as published by the Lindon Marina and checked 9 August 2026. Oars and buoyancy aids are included. Group rates and half or full day arrangements are quoted by the operator rather than posted, and the fleet is a warm season offer, so telephone before you build an afternoon around a specific craft.

What the water does at this address


Shallow, warm, west facing and honest about all three.

This section is about one point on a shoreline rather than about a lake. What follows is what the water does in front of this ramp, which is a different subject from what the lake is doing as a body of water. That second question has a region page and this one hands it over.

The defining local fact is depth. The east shore of Utah Lake runs shallow, and in a low water year the approach to this harbour is the known frustration of the place. It affects anything with draft, it affects the far end of the ramp rather than the beach, and it gets worse as summer goes on. The Utah Lake Authority lists an upgrade to this marina as a proposed project rather than a scheduled one, which as of August 2026 means announced and not built.

The compensation is the beach. A genuine sand shoreline at a launch ramp is rare on this lake, and it turns this address into a place you can use with no equipment at all. It is also why the rental fleet launches off the sand rather than off a dock, which removes the single most awkward part of hiring a paddleboard.

The aspect is the third thing and it is the free one. This is a west facing shore, so the sun sets across open water and into the Lake Mountains on the far side, and the last hour of daylight here is the best free thing the address offers. Wind is the honest hazard on any open water on this lake, and chop builds faster than a shoreline view suggests.

Everything else about the water belongs to the valley rather than to the harbour. Whether the lake is safe to swim in this week, why it reads green, what the level is doing, how the carp removal programme has gone and what the Utah Lake Authority is for are all answered once, properly, on the Utah Lake page. Checking it before you travel in high summer is the sensible order of operations.

In a dry August, ring about ramp depth before you hitch the trailer. The shallow east shore approach is the one thing that genuinely spoils trips to this harbour, and it is entirely avoidable with a telephone call. Depth at the end of the ramp varies with the lake's level and with how far into the season you are, so a boat that launched easily here in May can be a problem in late August of the same year. The operator on 801-980-1104 knows the current state of it, and no website updates fast enough to answer the question for you. Anything you can carry to the sand is unaffected.

Anything you can carry to the sand launches here in any week of the season. Anything on a trailer wants a telephone call first.

The ground it stands on


A resort was here first, and something else is proposed for next door.

This address has been a lakeside destination before. Captain John Dallin began building the Geneva Resort here in 1890, naming it for his daughter, and what went up was a full Victorian pleasure ground: a boat harbour, a hotel, concession stands, a dance pavilion whose floor was mounted on big springs and whose walls stopped about five feet short of the roof, and two pools filled from flowing wells, one cold and one heated by a boiler. A giant toboggan slide was added in the 1920s.

The name outlived the resort by a long way. When a wartime steel mill was built up this shore in the 1940s it took the resort's name, which is why the road along the west side of the valley is called Geneva Road and why the mill site in Vineyard is still called Geneva. The order of that borrowing is the opposite of what most people assume: the lake resort was first and the industry took its name, not the reverse.

What is proposed for the ground immediately east of the harbour is a nature and research centre, run by Utah Valley University with the Utah Lake Authority, intended as a clearing house for research on the lake and as a university asset. Then Representative John Curtis secured five million dollars of federal money for it, and Senate Bill 319 in the 2025 session, sponsored by Senator Brady Brammer, moved 2.1 million dollars of already allocated Department of Natural Resources funding to the university in February 2025.

The honest status is announced rather than built. Proponents sought fifteen million dollars in one time state funding to start the project and did not get it in that session, and as of August 2026 the site east of the harbour is still ground. It is a genuinely interesting thing to have proposed at the end of 600 South, and it is not a reason to buy anything yet.

Quick answers


The harbour, answered.

At 2130 West 600 South, at the western edge of Lindon where 600 South runs out against Utah Lake, with the entrance signed off North Vineyard Road at the city line. It is about three miles west of the State Street corridor and roughly eight minutes by car. On the ground you get two launch ramps, a courtesy dock, eighteen slips on a secured dock, dry storage, a general store, picnic tables, a recreational vehicle park and a sand beach.

As published by the operator and checked in August 2026: ten dollars a day for day use by car, three dollars a day to walk in, ten dollars a day to launch a boat, twenty five dollars a day or night for a temporary slip with a hundred and fifty a week and three hundred a month, and six hundred dollars a year for an annual slip. The attached recreational vehicle park ran at sixty dollars a night on full hookups and forty on electric only, dropping to fifty and thirty five a night on stays of a week or more.

Private, and it is the only one of Utah Lake's five developed access points that is. The other four are a state park at Provo, a city harbour at American Fork, a municipal marina at Saratoga Springs and a county beach in the south. Private ownership is why the fee card here is more detailed than a public ramp's, why the rental fleet and the store exist at all, and why the opening hours belong to a business rather than to a published municipal season. It is open to anybody who pays at the gate.

Yes, and the fleet is the most complete on the lake: paddleboards, single kayaks, two person kayaks, child sized kayaks, canoes and small Sunfish sailboats, all launching straight off the sand beach. Published rates were ten dollars for the first hour and five dollars an hour after that on a paddleboard or single kayak, twenty then ten on a two person kayak and five an hour on a child sized one, with oars and buoyancy aids included. Rentals are a warm season offer, so telephone before you build an afternoon around a specific craft.

Usually, and the honest caveat is that the east shore of Utah Lake runs shallow and the approach here is the known frustration of the place in a low water year. It affects craft with draft rather than anything you carry to the sand, and it gets worse as the season goes on, so a boat that launched easily in May can be a problem in late August of the same year. Ring the operator on 801-980-1104 for current ramp depth before you hitch a trailer.

There is a sand beach here and it is the most usable one on this shore, but whether the water is fit to swim in during any given week is a lake question rather than a marina question. It is governed by the state harmful algal bloom monitoring programme and by Utah County Health Department advisories, which publish separately and change through the summer. The Local writes that once, at valley level, on the Utah Lake page, and checking it before travelling in high summer is the sensible order of operations.

Yes, in a recreational vehicle. The site carries its own park attached to the harbour, published in August 2026 at sixty dollars a night with full hookups and forty dollars on electric only, falling to fifty and thirty five a night for stays of a week or more, with a winter rate of fifty a night running roughly from 15 October to 15 March. The camp fee includes access to the sand beach, the picnic tables, fishing and boat launching. Reservations are taken by telephone rather than through a booking platform.

Yes, and it was substantial. Captain John Dallin began building the Geneva Resort on this ground in 1890 and named it for his daughter, with a boat harbour, a hotel, concession stands, a dance pavilion whose floor was mounted on springs, two pools fed by flowing wells and later a giant toboggan slide. When a wartime steel mill went up along this shore in the 1940s it took the resort's name, which is where Geneva Road and the Geneva site in Vineyard get theirs. The resort was first and the industry borrowed from it.

Two things are proposed and neither is built as of August 2026. The Utah Lake Authority lists an upgrade to this marina as a proposed project rather than a scheduled one. Separately, a nature and research centre run by Utah Valley University with the Utah Lake Authority is planned for the ground immediately east of the harbour, with five million dollars of federal money secured and 2.1 million dollars moved to the university by Senate Bill 319 in February 2025, but a fifteen million dollar state request was not funded that session.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

One harbour, and a whole lake behind it.

A day here asks which ramp and what the depth is. An address here asks different questions: how the west end of Lindon is zoned, what a parcel backs onto between the corridor and the shore, how the city's outdoor irrigation connection works on a specific lot, and what the proposed ground east of the harbour does or does not mean for the next ten years. Tell me what you are weighing and I will put you with a Utah County partner agent who works this side of the valley, and stay on the file for the financing side.

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