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The 5 best things to do in Marriott-Slaterville

A paved path along the Weber River reached down a single farm lane, a sports park that turns into the whole city for one morning a year, a playground beside the city offices with the only restrooms nobody has to book, the city's own garden market in the warm months, and a hundred years of the city's own history sitting free on a university server. Five picks, all of them free, in the order I would take them.

Scott BuehlerBy Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated October 2026

The short answer

The five best things to do in Marriott-Slaterville are the paved river path from River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street, a morning at Marriott Park with its court and diamond, the playground and walking path at City Hall Park beside the city offices, the city's own garden market in the warm months, and an evening with the city history collection that Weber State University hosts online for nothing. All five are free. Four of them are inside the city line and the fifth is on a university server. That is a short list for a reason: this is a farm city of about 2,290 people that publishes six facilities, one of which is the office building itself. The honest plan is a morning here and an afternoon in Ogden, six miles east.

Where Four stops inside the city, all within about four miles of the city offices at 1570 West 400 North
From downtown Marriott-Slaterville The city has no downtown; distances run from the city offices, a few minutes apart
Season Year round; the garden market runs in the warm months
Cost Free for all five; only a bowery, kitchen or hall rental is paid
Time needed Half a day for the river and both parks; the archive is an evening

The five at a glance

  1. 1. The river path at River Cove Trail Head
  2. 2. A morning at Marriott Park
  3. 3. City Hall Park with small children
  4. 4. The city's garden market
  5. 5. The city history, free at Weber State

Five picks, ranked, four inside the city line and the fifth online. Addresses and amenities are the city's own, taken from its facilities pages. Distances from the city offices are straight line estimates rather than any published figure. Nothing on this list charges admission.

Walk or ride the river path from River Cove Trail Head

903 West 17th Street Free Best April to October Directions

Start with the river, because it is the one thing here that nowhere else in the county has in quite this form: a paved multiuse path along the Weber with a small lot at the end of a farm lane and almost nobody on it. The city publishes exactly one way in, River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street, and lists three things at it: a biking path, trailhead parking and a walking trail. That is the whole amenity list, and it is honest. There is no restroom, no drinking water and no shade structure.

The move is to park, turn east, and ride toward the confluence. The paved path through this city carries the Weber River Parkway name, and at the eastern end part of the pond loop at 21st Street crosses onto Marriott-Slaterville ground before it reaches Ogden's. Going west the path thins out fast and the ground turns to working farmland, so the eastward mile is the one that repays a first visit. On a bike it is flat, wide and quick; on foot it is a good forty minutes out and back.

The thing to know before you commit a Saturday is that this is a working river bottom rather than a park. Cottonwoods, gravel, birds, farm equipment on the lane behind you, and a paved surface that nobody grooms. It is peaceful in a way a groomed trail is not, and that is the appeal. Bring what you need with you, because the nearest published restroom belongs to City Hall Park, about three and a half miles away by road.

The one name nobody agrees on

The city has never named the trail its own lot serves. The state uses two names for the path inside this city, the Weber River Parkway and a spelling of the Centennial, the regional trails foundation uses Weber River Pathway and Weber River Parkway in different places, and Ogden's visitor material calls the whole thing the Weber River Parkway and gives it twelve miles. If you are searching for it before you drive, try Weber River Parkway first and River Cove Trail Head second, and do not conclude the trail is missing because one name returns nothing.

Why it is not on the state trail map

The state keeps a list of trailheads for the whole of Utah and River Cove is not on it. Between here and the canyon mouth it names three, and every one of them is in Riverdale or Ogden. So a visitor planning from a state trail map will not find this lot at all, while a visitor planning from the city's own facilities page will. That is worth knowing because it explains why a place with an address, a surface and a parking bay can feel undiscovered on a Saturday morning in June.

The details

Where903 West 17th Street, at about 900 West, in the Weber River bottoms
From downtown Marriott-SlatervilleAbout 3.6 miles, roughly 7 minutes from the city offices
SeasonBest April to October; the paved path is not groomed or plowed
CostFree
Time neededAn easy hour

Getting there

From the city offices at 1570 West 400 North, go south and then east onto 17th Street, which is 1700 South on the Ogden grid, and follow it to about 900 West. There is one address and one approach, and the parking is at the end of it. Nothing about the turn is signed from a distance, so watch the numbers rather than the signs.

Before you go

  • No restroom, no tap and no trash can. Take water and carry your trash home.
  • The city publishes no stall count. The county's 2010 trail inventory listed thirty spaces at this location under a different name, and that is a 2010 planning figure rather than a count of what is painted today.
  • Go east from the lot for the better mile. West the surface thins and the ground becomes farmland.
  • Nothing published names which bank of the river the lot sits on, so do not plan a crossing you have not seen.
  • The city adopted the county pathways plan by ordinance in 2010 and publishes the ordinance itself; there are no posted city trail rules beyond that.

Take a morning at Marriott Park

1025 South 1200 West Free to use Year round Directions

Marriott Park is the city's sports park and the one that fills up. The city lists a basketball court, a softball diamond, a playground, a bowery with picnic tables, a kitchen and restrooms. For a city of about 2,290 that is a genuinely complete park, and on an ordinary Tuesday evening you will have most of it.

The move is to come after five, when the light is low over the fields and the heat has gone off the court. This is a valley floor park with no shade to speak of beyond the bowery, so a July noon is a mistake and a July seven o'clock is lovely. Bring a ball. The court and the diamond are the reason to choose this park over the one beside the city offices.

One caveat decides whether the day works. The restrooms and the kitchen here are marked rental only, so unless someone has booked them, plan on them being locked. That is not a complaint about the city, it is the arrangement, and knowing it in advance is the difference between a good morning and a short one. If a restroom matters, City Hall Park is the one whose restrooms carry no such note.

The one morning a year it is the center of town

The Fourth of July happens here and it happens all at one address. The city publishes a 5K at seven in the morning, breakfast at eight, a parade stepping off at half past ten on 1200 West, and lunch and games at eleven. Because 1200 West is a twenty five mile an hour city street rather than a highway, the whole route is walkable from the park, which makes this one of the easier small town Fourths in northern Utah to attend without a parking plan.

The details

WhereMarriott Park, 1025 South 1200 West, Marriott-Slaterville
From downtown Marriott-SlatervilleAbout 1.9 miles, roughly 4 minutes from the city offices
SeasonYear round; the city publishes no park hours
CostFree to use; the bowery, kitchen and restrooms are paid rentals
Time neededA morning or an evening

Getting there

From the city offices, head south on 1200 West and stay on it. The park is on the east side at about 1025 South, on the same street the Fourth of July parade uses. It is a two lane city street the whole way with a twenty five mile an hour limit, so allow four or five minutes rather than two.

Before you go

  • The restrooms and the kitchen are rental only, so plan on them being locked unless you have booked them.
  • The city publishes no park hours, so treat this as a daylight park.
  • There is almost no shade outside the bowery. On a summer day, come early or come late.
  • Book the bowery through the city offices on 801-627-1919; there is an online application and no published fee, so call to ask what it costs.
  • On the Fourth of July this park and the street outside it are the whole city, from seven in the morning until about midday.

Bring small children to City Hall Park

1570 West 400 North Free Year round Directions

If you have a toddler and an hour, this is the one. City Hall Park shares its address with the city offices at 1570 West 400 North, and it carries a playground, a walking path, a bowery with picnic tables, parking and restrooms. It is the smallest of the everyday parks and by some distance the easiest to use.

The reason it earns a place above the bigger park is a single word the city leaves off. At Marriott Park and at Slaterville Park the restrooms are marked rental only. At City Hall Park they are not marked at all, which reads as the one set of public restrooms in the city that a walk up visitor can plan on. Call 801-627-1919 first if the day depends on it, but that is the honest reading of what the city publishes.

The move is to do a lap of the walking path while the children are on the playground, then stay for whatever the city has on. This is the ground the city uses for its own things. The garden market sets up here in the warm months, and Breakfast with Santa is here on the second Saturday in December at nine in the morning. On an ordinary weekday it is a quiet green square with a parking lot and a slide, which for a lot of visits is exactly the right size.

The hall next door

The city rents the offices building itself as a hall, with a kitchen, restrooms, and tables and chairs, and it is booked at the same counter as everything else. There is an online application plus a reservation policy and agreement, and the city publishes no fee schedule, so ask what a booking costs when you call. The offices keep short weekday hours and are closed on Friday, so the booking errand is a Monday to Thursday one.

The details

WhereCity Hall Park, 1570 West 400 North, at the city offices
From downtown Marriott-SlatervilleThe city offices themselves, no drive
SeasonYear round; the city publishes no park hours
CostFree; the bowery is a paid rental
Time neededAn hour

Getting there

This is the city's own address, so it is the easiest thing here to find: 1570 West 400 North, with the parking lot in front of the offices and the park behind and beside them. Coming from 12th Street, turn north and follow 1500 West up to 400 North.

Before you go

  • This is the one park where the restrooms carry no rental only note, which makes it the safer choice for a walk up visit.
  • The city publishes no park hours, so treat this as a daylight park.
  • The city offices keep short weekday hours and are closed on Friday, so make a counter errand a Monday to Thursday job.
  • Book the bowery or the hall through the city offices; there is an online application and no published fee, so call 801-627-1919 to ask.
  • Check the city calendar before you come. A market or a city event can turn a quiet lap of the path into an evening out.

Catch the city's warm-season garden market

The city offices Free to walk in Warm months Directions

This is the closest thing Marriott-Slaterville has to a town square. The city runs a garden market at its own offices in the warm months and describes it plainly: a chance for residents to sell and buy locally grown produce, crafts and goods. For a city with working farms inside its limits that is not a novelty event, it is the obvious use of the ground.

The move, and it matters, is to check the date first. The city announces the market rather than fixing it to a set day, and the schedules that turn up in a search are often from an earlier year. Look at the city calendar, or call 801-627-1919 and ask when the next one is. Thirty seconds of checking is the difference between a good evening and an empty lot.

It is a small market and it should be judged as one. Expect produce out of gardens rather than a farmers market with fifty stalls, expect to talk to the people who grew it, and expect it to be over in a couple of hours. The city charges vendors nothing for a booth, which is a good sign about what the market is for. If you are weighing an address here, an hour at the market will tell you more about the place than an afternoon driving it.

If you want a booth

The city's own market material says vendor space is free, and it prints a contact for it alongside the main city number. For a household with an oversupply of tomatoes or a craft table, a free booth at a city run market inside a city of about 2,290 is about as low a barrier as small town commerce gets. Ask at the counter or on 801-627-1919, and ask early enough in the season to catch a date.

The details

WhereThe city offices, 1570 West 400 North, Marriott-Slaterville
From downtown Marriott-SlatervilleThe city offices themselves, no drive
SeasonWarm months; the city announces the dates
CostFree to walk in, and free for a vendor booth
Time neededAn hour or two

Getting there

Same address as City Hall Park: 1570 West 400 North, with parking in front of the offices. From 12th Street turn north on 1500 West and follow it to 400 North. The market sets up at the offices rather than in the park proper.

Before you go

  • Check the date on the city calendar before you drive; the city announces the dates rather than fixing a set day.
  • It is a small, local, cash friendly market. Bring cash rather than expecting a card reader.
  • Vendor space is free, and the city prints a contact for it.
  • The playground and the walking path are right there, which makes this an easy hour with children.

Read the city's own history, free, at Weber State

Online at Weber State Free Any time

This is the one that surprises people, and it is the reason a city with four parks earns a list at all. Marriott-Slaterville keeps a City Historian as a named officer of the city, that historian prepares a monthly and a yearly history book, and the whole run of it has been digitized and put online by Weber State University as the Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection. It is free, it is searchable, and it is on a university server rather than behind a city login.

The city's own history page is one paragraph long and points straight at it, which tells you where the real record lives. If you have ever wanted to know what a small Utah farm city actually did with itself month by month, this is an unusually complete answer, assembled by the people it happened to. It is also the only honest way to settle the stories that circulate about this place, because the popular versions of the naming and the founding are not printed on anything the city publishes.

The move is to give it an evening rather than five minutes, and start with the Slaterville volumes. Then drive the two old townsites the next morning with the names in your head. That combination, an archive at home and a farm lane in the morning, is the best thing this city has to offer a visitor who is genuinely curious about it, and it costs nothing at all.

Why the archive matters more here than in most towns

Because the alternative sources are thin. The city publishes a single paragraph about its founding and a history page that is mostly a pointer. Almost everything specific that circulates about the two settlements comes from somewhere that does not cite anything. A university hosted collection of the city's own history books, assembled by a serving city officer, is a better class of source than anything else available for a place this size, and it is open to anybody with a browser.

Pair it with the ground

The two old townsites are still legible if you know where to look. Slaterville sits around 250 North and 2200 West on the western side of the city, Marriott sits around 1200 West on the southern side, and the fields between them are the open space the city named itself after. The parks carry the two names, one on each side, which is the plainest map of the merger anybody has drawn.

The details

WhereOnline, the Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection at Weber State University
From downtown Marriott-SlatervilleOnline, no drive
SeasonAny time
CostFree
Time neededAn evening, or a rabbit hole

Getting there

There is nothing to drive to. The collection sits in Weber State University's digital library, and the city's own history page links to it. Search the collection name rather than the city name and you will land in the right place faster.

Before you go

  • Search for the collection by name. Searching the city name alone returns mostly property listings.
  • The city's own history page is one paragraph and a pointer, so do not expect the story to be on the city site.
  • The City Historian is a serving city officer, listed in the staff directory with an extension.
  • The naming stories in wide circulation are not printed by the city. If you want them settled, this collection is where to look.
  • Free and online means this is the one item on this list that works in January at nine at night.

Which park to pick


Four city addresses, and what each is actually good for

The parks here are not interchangeable, and the differences are practical rather than a matter of taste. One has the court and the diamond, one has the reliable restrooms, one is a soccer field and nothing else, and the biggest one has a construction project underway. Here is the ledger, with the city's own amenity wording behind each row.

The placeWhat it hasBest for
City Hall Park, 1570 West 400 NorthPlayground, walking path, bowery, parking, restrooms with no rental noteA short visit with small children, and anything that depends on a restroom
Marriott Park, 1025 South 1200 WestBasketball, softball, playground, bowery, kitchen and restrooms marked rental onlyBall games, an evening, and the Fourth of July
River Cove Trail Head, 903 West 17th StreetBiking path, trailhead parking, walking trail. No restroom, no waterA ride or a walk along the Weber, with everything carried in
Heritage Park, 1359 West 700 SouthSoccer, and nothing else on the city's listA field for a team that already knows it is coming
Slaterville Park, 250 North 2200 WestBaseball, basketball, soccer, bowery, kitchen and restrooms, with a city improvement project underwayIts full amenity list, once you have called to check what the work affects

Every amenity above is the city's own wording from its facilities pages. The city publishes no park hours and no fee schedule, so treat the parks as daylight only and call 801-627-1919 for booking costs.

The other two park sites


One is a soccer field, and one has a project underway

Heritage Park at 1359 West 700 South is a field and nothing else. The city's amenity list for it is one word, soccer, with no playground, no bowery, no restroom, no picnic table and no reservation contact. The two adjoining city parcels there come to roughly two and a half acres between them, which is about right for one field and a verge to park on. A team that already knows it is coming will find what it needs; anybody driving over expecting a park will not.

Slaterville Park at 250 North 2200 West is the biggest park in the city, and it carries the longest amenity list the city publishes: baseball and softball, basketball, a bowery, a kitchen, restrooms and soccer. The city has a Slaterville Park improvement project out for bids, so expect construction on the grounds and call the city before you count on a particular field. It is also the only park on the western side of the city, so what happens there matters more on that side of town than anywhere else.

One thing to read alongside it. The Utah Transportation Commission approved a project at State Route 126 and 250 North in June 2025, and 250 North is this park's own street. So the west end of the city has more than one thing going on at once, and a household weighing an address out that way should ask the city about both in the same call.

The most useful sentence about parks in this city is a plain one: the restrooms at the two big parks are rental only, so a walk up visitor should plan on City Hall Park.

Booking a bowery


One counter, one application, and a fee you have to ask for

Three of the city's park sites have a bowery with picnic tables that can be reserved, and so can the city offices building, which doubles as a hall. The city takes reservations through its offices at 1570 West 400 North on 801-627-1919, and it publishes an online application along with a reservation policy and agreement. It publishes no fee schedule, so the cost is a question for the counter rather than something you can look up.

Read the city's reservation policy before you count on a date, because the terms are where the conditions live. The offices keep short weekday hours and are closed on Friday, so the booking errand is a Monday to Thursday one. If a July Saturday at the bowery matters, sort it out early in the season rather than late, because the good summer dates go first.

The siteWhat the city rents thereWhat that means on the day
City Hall ParkA bowery with picnic tablesThe restrooms carry no rental note, so a walk up visit works either way
Marriott ParkA bowery with picnic tables and a kitchenThe kitchen and restrooms are rental only, so plan on them being locked unless you booked them
Slaterville ParkA bowery with picnic tables and a kitchenCall first, because the park has an improvement project underway
The city officesThe building as a hall, with a kitchen and restroomsBooked at the counter, in the hours the staff are not in it
Heritage ParkNothing listed on the facilities indexA field, in daylight, with no facilities of any kind
River Cove Trail HeadNothingA parking area and a paved path, with no restroom and no water

The city publishes no fee schedule online, so the amount is a question for the counter or for 801-627-1919. No acreage is settled either: the state gives two different figures for one park and the county gives a third for another, and the city itself publishes none.

What is open


What you can just turn up to, and the one call that settles the rest

All four of the physical picks are free and open to anybody, with one asterisk that matters more than it sounds: the restrooms. The city marks the restrooms and the kitchens at Marriott Park and at Slaterville Park as rental only, so unless a reservation holder has them open, treat them as locked. At City Hall Park the restrooms carry no such note, so for a walk up visit with children that is the park to plan on.

River Cove Trail Head has no restroom at all, and no tap. Its amenity list is a biking path, trailhead parking and a walking trail, and stops. The nearest published city restroom is about three and a half miles away at City Hall Park, so fill bottles before you leave and treat the trailhead as a start point rather than a facility.

And the market and the city's seasonal events are posted on the city's own calendar and monthly newsletter, not on a national events site. One look at the city calendar, or one call to 801-627-1919, is the whole planning process here.

Living with it


The same five, when you are not a visitor

A household that lives here uses this list completely differently. The river lot stops being a destination and becomes the place you walk the dog before work. The two everyday parks become the bowery you book in spring for a birthday in July, and the counter at 1570 West 400 North becomes a place you have actually been. The market becomes the evening you do not cook. And the archive becomes something you dip into on a winter evening rather than a novelty.

The resident arithmetic is mostly about the booking counter. Reservations are made in person and there is no published fee, so the good summer dates go to the households who ask early, and the city offices keep short weekday hours with Friday closed, which makes it a Monday to Thursday errand.

The other resident move is simply knowing what this city does not have, because four of the five things on this list are small and the alternatives are all next door. There is no pool, no recreation center and no library branch inside the limits. What there is instead is a short drive to a city with all three. The page on moving here sets out where each of those actually is.

What this list leaves out


Good places nearby, that belong to other cities

  • The Golden Spike Event Center at 1000 North 1200 West, which is Ogden's parcel. The city line runs immediately west and north of it and Farr West begins a third of a mile further north, so the fairgrounds are a neighbor rather than an amenity.
  • Fort Buenaventura, a Weber County park on Ogden ground about four miles from the city offices, and the Ogden Nature Center, which is Ogden's and is the nearest large outdoor destination to this city at about a mile and a half.
  • The Halloween trunk or treat. The city's own page restricts it to residents and their families, so it is a resident item and never an invitation.
  • The Weber River corridor as a whole, its trailheads downstream and the argument about how long it is, which are one page for the whole region. This list uses this city's own lot and leaves the rest there.
  • Ogden Canyon, the three ski resorts above it, the reservoirs behind them and the historic main street downtown. None of them is in this city and all four have their own pages on the region hub.

Quick answers


The list, answered

Five things, and all five are free. Walk or ride the paved river path from River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street. Take a morning at Marriott Park at 1025 South 1200 West, which has a basketball court, a softball diamond and a playground. Bring small children to City Hall Park at 1570 West 400 North for the playground and the walking path. Visit the city's small garden market at those same city offices in the warm months. And read the Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection, which Weber State University hosts online for nothing.

Yes. Slaterville Park at 250 North 2200 West is the city's largest park, and the city lists it in full: a baseball diamond, a basketball court, a bowery with picnic tables, a kitchen, restrooms and a soccer field. The city has a Slaterville Park improvement project out for bids, so expect some construction on the grounds and call 801-627-1919 to confirm a specific field before you drive. The bowery, kitchen and restrooms there are rental only in any case, so a walk up visitor should not count on the restrooms.

At City Hall Park, yes. At Marriott Park and Slaterville Park the restrooms are marked rental only, which means the doors are unlocked for a reservation holder rather than a walk up visitor. So plan on City Hall Park at 1570 West 400 North, where the restrooms carry no such note. River Cove Trail Head has no restroom and no drinking water at all; its entire published amenity list is a biking path, trailhead parking and a walking trail.

Nothing, unless you book something. Every one of the five picks on this list is free to use: the river trailhead, both everyday parks, the garden market and the online history collection. The only paid item in the city's own recreation offer is a reservation, which covers a bowery with picnic tables, a kitchen, or the city offices building itself as a hall. The city publishes no fee schedule, so the amount is a question for the counter or for 801-627-1919.

River Cove Trail Head, 903 West 17th Street, which is 1700 South on the Ogden street grid. The city lists a biking path, trailhead parking and a walking trail there and nothing else. It is worth knowing that this trailhead is not on the state's own list of trailheads, so a state trail map will not show it; the city's facilities page is the only place it appears. The city publishes no stall count for the parking lot, and the county's 2010 trail inventory listed thirty spaces at this location under a different name.

Through the city offices at 1570 West 400 North, on 801-627-1919. The city publishes a City Hall reservation policy and agreement along with an online application, and it publishes no fee schedule, so ask what a booking costs when you call. The city offices keep short weekday hours and are closed on Friday, so a counter visit is a Monday to Thursday errand. Read the city's reservation policy before you count on a date, because the bowery, kitchen and restrooms at Marriott Park and Slaterville Park are rental only.

The city publishes no park hours on its facilities pages, so treat the parks as daylight only and confirm anything time sensitive on 801-627-1919. City Hall Park, Marriott Park and Slaterville Park each list their amenities but no opening or closing time, and no hours at all are published for Heritage Park or for River Cove Trail Head. If a booked bowery or kitchen matters, the reservation, not a posted gate time, is what sets your access.

For a specific kind of visit, yes. It is a farm city of about 2,290 people with a paved river path almost nobody uses, a sports park, a smaller park by the city offices, a small city run market and an unusually complete online history collection. What it is not is a day out with attractions; there is no museum, no pool, no visitor center and no main street of shops inside the limits. The honest plan is a morning here and an afternoon in Ogden, six miles east, which has the museums, the restaurants and the theater calendar this city borrows.

About six miles from the city offices at 1570 West 400 North, which runs to roughly ten minutes in free flowing traffic on 12th Street. That is a shorter drive than the city guide on this site suggests, and it is the reason this city works the way it does: everything a mid sized city offers is close enough to borrow, so the city itself has never needed a pool, a library branch or a recreation center. The distance and time here are computed estimates rather than any issuing body's published figure.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

Five picks, and a city that keeps its best thing on a university server

This list is what a visitor should do with half a day. What it does not answer is whether the city works for a household, and that turns on things a ranked list cannot carry: how much of 12th Street you want at the end of the driveway, whether the parcel runs down toward the river and what the flood map says about it, what the zoning allows and what the farm next door is running, and which special districts bill the address. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works this side of the valley, and stay on the file for the research and the financing side.

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