Roy Days, and the three other days this city marks

Roy City runs Roy Days across about two weeks in the second half of July, and the festival closes on a Saturday at the start of August. The exact dates shift from year to year, and the city sets them fresh each summer. Roy City runs the festival itself, and roydays.info now redirects to the city's own Roy Days pages, which are the place to get the dates for the year you are planning around.

On 1900 West, at nine in the morning on the closing Saturday. Roy City publishes the street and the time and nothing more, so there is no official start point, end point or direction to plan around. 1900 West is the north to south spine through the middle of the city, and city hall sits on it, so almost anywhere along it works. Take a spot by half past eight.

Not at the launch site. The fireworks go up at ten at night on the closing Saturday, and the city launches them from Eagle Lake Golf Course. Watch from George E. Wahlen Park, where the rest of the day has already been happening, from a street on the south or west side of the grid with a clear view, or from your own block. Park before nine rather than after.

Almost everything, and almost all of it free. The day starts with a community breakfast at the Hope Center and a five kilometer run and two mile walk from the fire station, then the parade at nine on 1900 West. From late morning the day moves to George E. Wahlen Park for vendor booths, a fun zone, entertainment and a car show through the afternoon, and it closes with fireworks at ten at night. There is a gap in the evening that locals use to go home and eat. Confirm the current year's times on the city's Roy Days pages.

Turning up does not. Every event on the city's Saturday program is free to attend. Taking part costs a little: applying to enter the parade, buying a salmon bake ticket, or booking a vendor booth each carry a fee, and the arts council contests inside the festival cost a dollar or two to enter. The current amounts are set in Roy City's fee schedule, so confirm them with the city before you enter.

More than the one day schedule suggests. Alongside the parade, the car show and the fireworks, Roy City runs a salmon bake, an art show with adult, youth and junior categories, a bookmark contest and a poetry contest for junior high and high school students. They are all city run, and the entry fees sit in the city's fee schedule. If you have recently moved to Roy and want a way into the town, an entry form is a friendlier introduction than a chair on the parade route.

Three more, and Roy City dates all three by rule rather than by calendar. The Easter egg hunt is the Saturday before Easter, at ten in the morning at George E. Wahlen Park, for children up to twelve, and it is free. The Pumpkin Splash is the Saturday before Halloween at the Roy Recreation Complex, with registration online. The holiday tree lighting is the Monday before Thanksgiving, free, with performances from local elementary schools and a visit from Santa.

Not one that Roy City runs. The city's main events are four recurring ones: the Easter egg hunt, Roy Days, the Pumpkin Splash and the tree lighting. There is no municipal farmers market or rodeo. The city's Arts Council runs free Concerts in the Park, usually on Thursday evenings in summer at the Southwest Branch library, which still leaves a modest calendar for a city of about 38,800 people and worth knowing before you move here expecting a busier one. Ogden, a few miles north, runs a fuller summer program if you want more.

Roy City itself. Roy City Parks and Recreation runs the festival, the schedule is published on the city's own site, and roydays.info now redirects there. The city's parks and recreation office is the number to call with a question about any part of it, on 801-774-1048.