Parks and the calendar Pleasant View
Four reservable facilities, seven sports, six free events, and no amenity list or fee schedule published for any of it
The parks and Founders Day, in a city that answers by telephone.
Pleasant View City runs four parks and six free events a year, and publishes an address and a bowery rule for each park and almost nothing else. Founders Day, singular, fell on Saturday 27 June in 2026, with the parade lining up from 9.00 and stepping off at 10, alongside a 5K, a car show, two tournaments and a kids bike parade. No parade route is published. No 2027 date is published. And the city's own website gives two different street addresses for the same park.
My own ground is Iron and Washington counties at the bottom of the state, a long way south of this bench, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them came from the bodies that issue it: Pleasant View City's own history, events, facilities and police pages, its adopted Ordinance 2025-25 as published by the Utah Division of Water Resources, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee's region pages and its 2023 status report, the Trails Foundation of Northern Utah, the Utah Geological Survey's geothermal record, the Forest Service's Ogden Ranger District trail records, the transportation department's own route file, the Census Bureau's boundary and survey tables, the state population committee, the state board of education through the state school layer, the Weber County parcel extract, the North View Fire District and the Weber County Library System. Every figure carries the day it was read, and where four bodies name one place four ways, all four are printed. A Weber and Morgan partner agent takes the ground level work.
The short answer
Pleasant View City runs four parks and six free events a year, and it publishes an address and a bowery rule for each park and almost nothing else. The four are Barker Park at 520 W Elberta Drive, which shares its parcel with the city offices and the police department, Pleasant View Park on Pleasant View Drive, Shady Lane Park at 600 W 3000 N and Wadman Nature Park at 400 4350 N Street. The city's summer event is Founders Day, singular, held on Saturday 27 June in 2026 with the parade lining up between 9.00 and 9.30 and stepping off at 10. Every city event is free to attend, no 2027 dates are published, and no fee schedule exists for any park. Checked 21 August 2026.
The live question
When is Founders Day, and what actually happens at it?
Saturday 27 June in 2026, on the city's own annual events page, read 21 August 2026. The city lists a parade at 10 in the morning with the lineup running from 9.00 to 9.30, plus a 5K fun run, a pickleball tournament, a car show, a volleyball tournament and a kids bike parade. Entry is free. The city names no single venue for the day, listing it across multiple venues, and it publishes no parade route anywhere on the page. There is no rodeo and there are no fireworks on the list.
The name is the part to get right, because getting it wrong is the commonest error about this city. The event is Founders Day, singular. It is not Pleasant View Days. Founders Day is a very common Utah city event name and the cities immediately either side of this one run differently named summer events on different weekends, each of which belongs to that city rather than to this page. If you are looking for a late June parade in this valley, this is the one, and it is under this name.
The second thing to know is what is not published. No 2027 date exists for Founders Day or for any other Pleasant View city event as of 21 August 2026: the events page carries 2026 dates only. So the honest sentence is 2026 as held, with 2027 not yet posted, and the city office on 801-782-8529 is the place to ask in the spring. No parade route is published either, which for a parade that steps off at 10 in the morning is the single most useful missing fact on the page.
And the third is the shape of the rest of the year, which is unusually easy to hold in your head because there are exactly six things on it: an Easter candy grab at Pleasant View Park in April, two Movies in the Park evenings at dusk in late May and late June, a run of Monday evening food truck gatherings at Barker Park, 520 W Elberta Drive, across the summer, Founders Day in late June, Pumpkin Palooza at the same park in late October, and Santa at City Hall in early December. Every one of them is organised by the city and every one is free.
The city's own website prints two different street addresses for Pleasant View Park, and this companion prints neither as settled. The city's facility directory gives Pleasant View Park as 855 W Pleasant View Drive. Its annual events page, on the same website and read on the same day, gives the venue for two events as Pleasant View Park, 947 W Pleasant View Dr. Same issuing body, same site, two addresses, and no third source to break the tie. Until the city settles it, the safe way to refer to the place is Pleasant View Park, on Pleasant View Drive, which is what this page does. If you are meeting somebody there, ring the city offices on 801-782-8529 first. The other three parks each carry one address and no such problem.
The four parks
Four addresses, two reservable boweries, and not one published amenity list in the whole city.
Pleasant View City's facility directory lists exactly four reservable facilities and nothing else. It publishes an address and a bowery rule for each and no amenity list, no opening hours and no fee schedule for any of them. The acreages below come from the state's own local parks layer rather than from the city, because the city publishes none.
| The park | Address, as the city prints it | Acreage, state parks layer | The bowery rule, in the city's words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barker Park | 520 W Elberta Dr, on the same parcel as the city offices and the police department | 7.52 acres, recorded as Henry Barker Jr. Park, community park | This bowery can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis between May 1st and September 30th |
| Pleasant View Park | 855 W Pleasant View Drive on the facility directory, 947 W Pleasant View Dr on the events page | 8.13 acres, park | Pleasant View Park is strictly first-come, first-served. We do not reserve the bowery for Pleasant View Park |
| Shady Lane Park | 600 W 3000 N | 10.47 acres, park | No bowery reservation rule published for this park |
| Wadman Nature Park | 400 4350 N Street | 10.70 acres, neighborhood park | This bowery can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis between May 1st and September 30th |
Addresses and bowery rules from Pleasant View City's own facility directory and annual events page, read 21 August 2026. Acreages from the state's local parks layer queried the same day, at moderate confidence, because the city itself publishes no acreage for any park. Reservations run through the city offices by telephone on 801-782-8529 and no fee is published for any of them.
Two naming problems sit on this list and both cross a city line, so they are worth settling once. The first is Barker Park. It is Pleasant View's, at 520 W Elberta Drive, and the state parks layer records it under the fuller name Henry Barker Jr. Park with Pleasant View as its city. The neighbouring city east of here has a different park sharing that surname at a different address entirely. Naming this one with its address every time is the only way to keep the two apart, which is what this companion does.
The second runs the other way. Lomond View Park is not in Pleasant View: the state parks layer records it at 8.49 acres with the neighbouring city as its city. Lomond View School, on the other hand, is inside Pleasant View, at 3644 N 900 W. So the same name sits on a park in one city and a school in the other, three quarters of a mile apart, and any list that treats them as a pair will put one of them in the wrong municipality.
What the city genuinely does not publish is worth stating as plainly as what it does. There is no amenity list for any of the four parks: no playground inventory, no field count, no court count, no restroom note. There are no opening hours. There is no fee schedule. There is no parks map and no trails map, because the city's maps page carries exactly four documents, a future land use map with changes as of December 2019, two road maps at different paper sizes, and a zoning map dated 12 August 2025. A splash pad, a dog park and rodeo grounds each appear on none of the city's pages, which is not the same as proof that none exists on the ground.
The details
Getting there
Barker Park is the civic middle of Pleasant View and the easiest thing in the city to find, because the city offices, the police department and the park all sit at 520 W Elberta Drive on one 19.47 acre parcel. Two of the city's six annual events are held here, the summer food truck evenings and the late October pumpkin event, and a third, the December visit from Santa, is in the city hall building on the same ground.
Before you go
- Name this park with its address whenever it comes up, because the city east of here has a different park sharing the surname at a different address.
- Reservations are taken by telephone rather than through any online system, and the window is 1 May to 30 September.
- The city publishes no amenity list for this or any other park, so what is actually on the ground is a question for the recreation office rather than for any page.
- Lomond View Park is the neighbouring city's, while Lomond View School is here. The name sits on both sides of the line.
The year
Six events, all free, all run by the city, and a parade at ten in the morning with no published route.
| The event, as the city names it | 2026 date as published | Venue as published | What the city lists |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easter Candy Grab | Saturday 4 April 2026 | Pleasant View Park, on Pleasant View Drive | An egg hunt at the city's largest west side park, free to attend |
| Movies in the Park | Friday 29 May and Friday 26 June 2026, at dusk | Pleasant View Park, on Pleasant View Drive | Two outdoor film evenings, free, timed to dusk rather than to a clock |
| Food Truck Giddy-Up | Mondays 8 June, 10 August, 31 August, 14 September and 28 September 2026, 5.30 to 8.30 pm | Barker Park, 520 W Elberta Dr | Five Monday evening food truck gatherings spread across the summer and into autumn, free to attend |
| Founders Day | Saturday 27 June 2026 | Multiple venues across the city | A parade at 10 am with lineup from 9.00 to 9.30, a 5K fun run, a pickleball tournament, a car show, a volleyball tournament and a kids bike parade. No parade route published |
| Pumpkin Palooza | Saturday 24 October 2026, noon to 2.30 pm | Barker Park, 520 W Elberta Dr | A two and a half hour autumn event at the civic park, free to attend |
| Santa's Visit | Saturday 5 December 2026, 10 am to noon | City Hall, 520 W Elberta Dr | Two hours indoors at the city office complex, free to attend |
Pleasant View City's own annual events page, read 21 August 2026. Every event on it is organised by the city and every one is free to attend. No 2027 date is published for any of them, and the city publishes no attendance figure, no parade route and no organiser scale claim for anything on the list. No farmers market appears on the page.
Six events is a small calendar and it is worth saying plainly rather than padding out. What is unusual about it is not the number but the consistency: every single one is run by the city itself rather than by a chamber, a committee or a private organiser, every one is free, and four of the six happen at the same two addresses. For a household weighing whether a place has a public life, that is a more honest signal than a long list would be, because a city that runs six free events on its own budget is doing something a city that lists twenty events run by other people is not.
The gaps in the published record are equally worth naming. There is no parade route, which is the fact anybody attending actually needs. There are no 2027 dates, so nothing beyond this year can be planned from the city's page. There is no attendance figure for anything. And there is no farmers market on the list, which in a valley where several neighbouring cities run one is a real absence rather than an oversight in the research.
One practical note about the summer schedule. The food truck evenings run on Mondays and the published dates are not evenly spaced: 8 June, then a gap, then 10 August, 31 August, 14 September and 28 September. Anybody planning around them should read the city's page rather than assume a fortnightly rhythm, because the published pattern is not one.
The details
Getting there
The parade is the fixed point and the city does not publish where it goes, which makes this the one event in the city where the practical advice is to ask locally on the day or ring the city offices on 801-782-8529 in advance. Everything else on the day, the 5K, the pickleball and volleyball tournaments, the car show and the kids bike parade, is listed by the city without a venue attached, which is consistent with an event that uses several parts of the city at once.
Before you go
- The name is Founders Day, singular. Cities on either side run their own differently named summer events on different weekends, and each of those belongs to that city rather than to this page.
- No 2027 date is published for this or any other city event as of 21 August 2026, so anything beyond this year needs a telephone call in the spring.
- There is no rodeo and there are no fireworks on the city's list for the day.
- Lineup is 9.00 to 9.30 and the parade steps off at 10, which is the only timing the city publishes for the whole day.
The programme
Seven sports, one recreation director, and a telephone number instead of a booking system.
Pleasant View City's parks and recreation page, read 21 August 2026, lists registration for T-ball, softball, baseball, flag football, basketball, pickleball and a running club. The recreation director is Cindy Harrison, on 801-827-0463. Field reservations and bowery rentals run through the same office, and the general city number for reservations is 801-782-8529. That is the whole published recreation apparatus of the city, and for a place of eleven thousand people it is a genuinely respectable list of sports to run in house.
What the same page does not carry is any trails content at all, which is the strangest gap in this city's published record. The northern end of the longest built run of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Utah is inside these city limits, and neither the recreation page nor the maps page nor the facility directory mentions a trail or a trailhead anywhere. The trailhead page works through what that absence means in practice, which is that four outside bodies document the city's most distinctive public asset and the city documents none of it.
The practical upshot for a household is that this is a telephone city rather than a portal city. Bowery reservations are taken by phone. Field reservations are taken by phone. There is no published fee schedule to read in advance and no online booking calendar to check. That is neither good nor bad, but it does change how you plan: if something matters on a particular Saturday, the answer comes from ringing the city offices during business hours rather than from any website, including this one.
The city's own ground, in numbers
4
reservable facilities on the city's facility directory, and nothing else on it
36.82 acres
of city park land across the four, on the state's local parks layer
6
annual city events, all free and all organised by the city itself
0
amenity lists, opening hours, fee schedules, parks maps or trails maps published
Living with it
A small calendar run entirely by the city, and four parks you have to telephone to find out about.
For a household weighing an address here, the parks and the calendar answer a different question from the mountain or the trail. They answer whether the city itself does anything, and the answer is yes, modestly and consistently: four parks across about 37 acres, seven sports, six free events a year, and a recreation director with a direct telephone number. None of that is remarkable and all of it is real, which is a better position than a long calendar of other people's events.
The friction is administrative rather than financial. Nothing here costs anything at a gate, and no fee for a park, a bowery or an event is published anywhere. What is missing is the information layer: no amenity lists, no hours, no maps, no online booking and two different addresses for the same park on the city's own website. Anybody who wants a firm answer about a particular Saturday at a particular park is going to make a telephone call, and it is worth knowing that before rather than after.
The one calendar item worth planning a year around is Founders Day in late June, because a parade, a 5K, a car show and two tournaments in a city of eleven thousand is the day the place is most itself. The date to hold is the 2026 one, 27 June, and the caution is that the city has published nothing for 2027 and the parade route has never been published at all.
The rest of this city's public life is out of doors and belongs to other pages: the trail at the top of the streets and the view the city is named after. Neither of those is run by the city, which is exactly why the four parks and the six events matter: they are the part the city actually controls.
Six free events a year, all of them organised by the city itself, in a place with four parks and no published fee schedule for any of them. Small, and entirely real.
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Open the companionQuick answers
The parks and the year, answered.
Saturday 27 June in 2026, on Pleasant View City's own annual events page. The city lists a parade at 10 in the morning with lineup running from 9.00 to 9.30, plus a 5K fun run, a pickleball tournament, a car show, a volleyball tournament and a kids bike parade. Entry is free and the city names no single venue, listing the day across multiple venues. No parade route is published anywhere on the page, and no rodeo or fireworks appear on the list. No 2027 date is published as of 21 August 2026, so anything beyond this year needs a call to the city on 801-782-8529.
No, and this is the commonest error about this city. The event is Founders Day, singular, as Pleasant View City names it on its own annual events page. Founders Day is a very common Utah city event name, and the cities immediately either side of this one run differently named summer events on different weekends, each belonging to that city rather than to this page. If you are looking for a late June parade in this part of the valley, this is the one, and it is listed under Founders Day.
Four, on the city's own facility directory, which lists exactly four reservable facilities and nothing else. They are Barker Park at 520 W Elberta Drive, recorded in the state parks layer as Henry Barker Jr. Park at 7.52 acres, Pleasant View Park on Pleasant View Drive at 8.13 acres, Shady Lane Park at 600 W 3000 N at 10.47 acres, and Wadman Nature Park at 400 4350 N Street at 10.70 acres. The acreages come from the state's local parks layer rather than from the city, because the city publishes no acreage, no amenity list, no hours and no fee schedule for any of the four.
The Barker Park at 520 W Elberta Drive is Pleasant View's, and it shares that address and its parcel with the city offices and the police department. The state's local parks layer records it under the fuller name Henry Barker Jr. Park with Pleasant View as its city, and two of the city's six annual events are held there. The neighbouring city east of here has a different park sharing that surname at a different address entirely, which is why this companion names Pleasant View's with its street address every time it comes up.
By telephone, on 801-782-8529 to the city offices. The city's rule for Barker Park and Wadman Nature Park, in its own words, is that this bowery can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis between May 1st and September 30th. Pleasant View Park is different: the city states that it is strictly first-come, first-served and that it does not reserve the bowery there at all. No fee is published for any reservation and there is no online booking system, so a firm answer about a particular Saturday requires a call during city office hours.
The city publishes two and this companion prints neither as settled. Pleasant View City's facility directory gives 855 W Pleasant View Drive. Its annual events page, on the same website and read on the same day, gives the venue for two events as Pleasant View Park, 947 W Pleasant View Dr. Same issuing body, same site, two addresses, and no third source to break the tie. Until the city settles it the safe form is Pleasant View Park, on Pleasant View Drive. The other three city parks each carry a single address and no such problem.
Six, all free and all organised by the city. An Easter Candy Grab on Saturday 4 April 2026 at Pleasant View Park. Movies in the Park on Friday 29 May and Friday 26 June at dusk, at the same park. Food Truck Giddy-Up on Mondays 8 June, 10 August, 31 August, 14 September and 28 September, 5.30 to 8.30 pm at Barker Park. Founders Day on Saturday 27 June. Pumpkin Palooza on Saturday 24 October, noon to 2.30 pm at Barker Park. And Santa's Visit on Saturday 5 December, 10 am to noon at City Hall. No farmers market appears on the city's page.
Neither appears anywhere on the city's facility directory or its parks and recreation page, and nor do rodeo grounds. That is a statement about the published record rather than proof about the ground, and it matters here more than it would elsewhere because the city publishes no amenity list at all for any of its four parks: no playground inventory, no field count, no court count and no restroom note. The recreation office is the body to ask, and the recreation director's direct number is 801-827-0463.
Seven, on its own parks and recreation page: T-ball, softball, baseball, flag football, basketball, pickleball and a running club. The recreation director is Cindy Harrison on 801-827-0463, and field reservations and bowery rentals run through the same office. For a city of about eleven thousand people that is a substantial in house programme. The same page carries no trails content at all, which is notable because the northern end of the longest built run of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Utah sits inside these city limits.
Four parks, six free events, and a city that answers the phone rather than publishing a calendar.
The parks and the calendar answer the question the mountain does not, which is whether the city itself does anything. It does: about 37 acres of park land, seven sports run in house, six free events a year and a recreation director with a direct line. What it does not do is publish amenity lists, hours, fees, maps or an online booking system, and it currently gives two different addresses for one of its own parks. If public life close to home matters to your household, the useful move is to walk all four parks on an ordinary Saturday before an offer rather than reading about them. Tell me which streets you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works this bench, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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