Six parks Washington Terrace
Six parks with addresses and no acreages, five youth programmes, and a civic building that carries a meal programme and a fire station
The parks and the senior centre, and the sizes this city will not print.
Washington Terrace publishes six parks and gives every one of them a street address and an amenity list, and publishes an acreage for none of them. There is no splash pad, no dog park and no aquatic centre on any city page, and three separate city documents list three different sets of parks. What the city does run at scale is a recreation programme covering eleven months of the year with published fees, and a senior centre that serves a hot lunch five days a week for a suggested donation, from a building it shares with the volunteer fire station.
I hold my licence and do my daily work at the far south end of Utah, roughly three hundred miles from this bench, so these pages are researched rather than lived. The bodies behind them are named against every figure: Washington Terrace City's own history, parks, trails, events, fire, public safety, senior centre and economic development pages; the 123 page Active Transportation Plan the city publishes and the 69 page General Plan revised in 2022; the council agenda, staff report and work session minutes posted on the Utah Public Notice Website; the toll road operator's own rate page; the hospital operator's own facility page; Weber School District and the Utah State Board of Education October enrolment file; the Weber County Library System; the Utah State Tax Commission; the Utah Department of Workforce Services; the Utah Population Committee; the Census Bureau's boundary file, geocoder and American Community Survey; the Utah Geospatial Resource Center; and the federal elevation and hydrography services. Every figure carries the day it was read. A Weber and Morgan partner agent takes the ground level work.
The short answer
Washington Terrace publishes six parks, gives every one of them a street address and an amenity list, and publishes an acreage for none of them. They are Rohmer Park at 5100 South 650 West, Wright Park at 300 East 5400 South, Lion's Park at 375 East 4700 South, George Van-Leeuwen Park at 125 East 4475 South, Victory Park at 275 East 4400 South, and Senior Center Park at 300 West and 4575 South. There is no splash pad, no dog park and no aquatic centre on any city page. The senior centre in the sixth of those parks serves a hot lunch from noon until one on a day's notice, for a suggested donation. Checked 22 August 2026.
The live question
How many parks are there, and is there a splash pad?
Six, on the list the city actually maintains for the public, and no, there is no splash pad. The City Parks page names Rohmer, Wright, Lion's, George Van-Leeuwen, Victory and Senior Center, gives each an address and lists the amenities on each. Nothing on any of the six is described as a splash pad, a dog park, an aquatic centre or a swimming pool. That is worth stating flatly because those three amenities are the standard shortlist for a household with young children weighing a Weber County address, and several neighbouring cities publish at least one of them.
The count is not as settled as it looks, though, because the city's own documents do not agree with each other. The General Plan revised 2022 lists Rohmer, Van Leeuwen, Victory and Lions, adds a 4800 S 300 W Church Park with the note that this Park does is not city property, however, it is enjoyed by the entire community and maintained by the Community Methodist Church, and omits Wright Park and Senior Center Park entirely. The Active Transportation Plan's maps carry two further labels, Community Park and 4700 S Park, that appear on no city parks page under those names. Three city documents, three inventories. The parks page is the current public facing list and is the one this page follows.
What no document supplies is a size. There is no acreage for any Washington Terrace park at the city, at the county or at any state body, checked on 22 August 2026. A figure of 27.4 acres for Rohmer Park circulates on walking and trip planning applications and it was not found at any public body, so it does not appear on this page as a fact. That absence is not trivial: a reader cannot tell from any official source whether the city's main park is five acres or thirty, and the only way to find out is to walk it.
The one amenity that is genuinely uncertain rather than absent is pickleball. The parks page lists tennis courts at Senior Center Park. A walking application lists the same courts as tennis and pickleball courts, and one city page reads the same way while the parks page does not. Two city surfaces, two readings, so this page treats pickleball as unconfirmed and points anybody who cares at the city switchboard rather than at a listing.
The six
Every one has an address and an amenity list, and not one has a published size.
The table below is the city's own parks page, reproduced with the addresses and amenities as the city states them, read 22 August 2026. What the city adds elsewhere, in the General Plan revised 2022, is set beside each where it says something the parks page does not.
| The park | Address the city gives | What the city lists on it | What the General Plan adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohmer Park | 5100 South 650 West | Three baseball fields, two multiple use fields, horseshoe pits, restrooms, a rentable pavilion with a stage, a half court basketball court, a playground, a large hill area, walking trails around the park, open areas and mature trees | Calls it an outstanding example of a regional park, and names it as the venue for the City's annual Terrace Days event |
| Wright Park | 300 East 5400 South | Open grass areas with young trees, a half court basketball court, playground equipment and covered picnic tables | Nothing. The General Plan's park list omits this park entirely |
| Lion's Park | 375 East 4700 South | A toddler playground, monkey bars and swings in two sand areas, a half court basketball court, a pavilion the city measures at 30 feet by 37 feet, and shaded tree areas | Lists it, spelled Lions, without additional description |
| George Van-Leeuwen Park | 125 East 4475 South | Three water detention basins, a walking path, trees, and playground equipment shared with Washington Terrace Elementary | Describes it as adjacent to Washington Terrace Elementary with shared playground equipment. The Active Transportation Plan's project table spells the name Van Lewen |
| Victory Park | 275 East 4400 South | Open grass areas, lush trees, a large playground with bench seating, and off street parking | Places it on the northeast quadrant of the City and identifies the ground as the old site of the City Hall Building |
| Senior Center Park | 300 West and 4575 South | The Senior Center itself with crafts, meals and activities, picnic tables, tennis courts, a small basketball court and open areas, with a telephone number for the centre | Nothing. The General Plan's park list omits this park too, although it describes the Civic Center building at length elsewhere |
Addresses and amenity lists read at the city's own parks page on 22 August 2026; the General Plan column comes from the plan revised 2022. No acreage, opening hour or fee is published for any of the six by the city, the county or any state body. The General Plan additionally lists a 4800 S 300 W Church Park which it states is not city property and is maintained by the Community Methodist Church, and the Active Transportation Plan's maps carry two labels, Community Park and 4700 S Park, that match no name on the parks page.
Read the amenity column and the shape of the system is clear. This is a neighbourhood park network rather than a destination one: half court basketball rather than full, playgrounds rather than adventure equipment, picnic tables and grass and trees. One park, Rohmer, carries everything the city does at scale, and the other five are within a few blocks of the streets around them. In a city two square miles across that is a defensible design, and it means most addresses are a short walk from something.
Two of the entries are unusual enough to be worth naming. George Van-Leeuwen Park is described by the city as carrying three water detention basins alongside a walking path and playground equipment shared with the elementary school next door, which makes it a storm water facility and a school playground and a park at once. And Victory Park sits on the ground the city says held the old City Hall building, which is the only place in the whole parks inventory where the city tells you what was there before.
The details
Getting there
Rohmer Park is the city's one park at scale and it is the venue for three of the four dated events in the city's published year: Terrace Days, the June film that opens it, and the Easter egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter. The city describes a large hill area and walking trails around the park, and makes no view claim about either; the hill is the western edge of the park, above the fall to the river bottoms.
Before you go
- No acreage is published for this park by anybody. The figure circulating on walking applications was not found at the city, the county or any state body and is not repeated here.
- The pavilion has a stage and is rentable, and the rental season, hours and fee schedule were not captured in this research. Ring the city on 801-393-8681 before planning around it.
- This is the venue for the whole of Terrace Days, so the second weekend in June is not a quiet time to visit the park.
- The walking trails the city mentions are around the park. Nothing published descends the hill on its western edge.
The senior centre and the fire station
One address carries a meal programme, a craft room, and the volunteer department that answers the calls.
The Civic Senior Community Center at 4601 South 300 West is the busiest civic building in this city and the least written about. The city's own page gives its telephone number as 801-621-0161, names Cheryl Corrigan as director, and publishes hours of Monday to Friday from nine in the morning until half past two, except holidays. Lunch runs from noon until one, requires a twenty four hour advance reservation, and asks a suggested donation of $4.00 for ages sixty and over and $6.00 for anybody under sixty. The listed activities are exercise, music and dancing, painting, bingo and monthly special events, and the centre publishes monthly activity calendars. Children must be accompanied by an adult, in the city's own wording.
The General Plan revised 2022 adds the institutional context. The Civic Center is centrally located within the City, it says, and serves as the senior center and supports senior services that are provided by Weber Human Services, such as daily meals, entertainment, activities, social interaction, and excursions. The same document records that the building was updated and expanded in 2009. A twenty four hour reservation for a hot lunch five days a week, run by a city of under nine thousand people with a county human services agency behind it, is a substantial piece of infrastructure for the size of the place.
The same site carries the fire station. The General Plan's accomplishments list records the construction of a Fire Station and Civic Center complete with seismic upgrades, and both the fire department and the senior centre publish 4601 South 300 West as their address. The department is the city's own and it is a volunteer one: in the city's own words, one volunteer Fire Chief, two volunteer Captains and between 30 to 35 volunteer firefighters, and the station on average will receive over 800 calls for service yearly. Fire Chief Clayton Petersen is named, with a business line of 801-393-6349. The page on moving here sets out how that sits alongside the policing arrangement, which is a county contract rather than a city department.
Around all of that runs the recreation programme, which is the part of the city's year that occupies the most weeks. Five youth programmes, five seasons, published fees and published registration windows, and between them they cover eleven months. The city publishes the fee inside the sport rather than as a price of admission to anything, and this page keeps it that way.
| Programme | Grades | Registration window | Season as the city publishes it | Fee as published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth soccer, co-ed | Pre-K to 2nd | January to March | April to May, Tuesday and Thursday nights | $50, including a jersey and socks |
| Baseball and softball | Pre-K to 9th | January to March | May, with nights varying by age group | $50, including a jersey and a game hat |
| Tackle football | 2nd to 7th | January to June | August to October | $140, including a jersey and equipment rental |
| Basketball, youth and girls | Age 4 and K to 9th | July to September | October to December | $50, including a jersey |
| Basketball, boys | 3rd to 9th | July to November | January to March | $50, including a jersey |
Read at the city's Youth Programs and City Events page on 22 August 2026. Registration deadlines posted for the current cycle were 6 September 2026 for youth and girls basketball and 22 November 2026 for boys basketball; those move every year and are published on the city site rather than announced elsewhere. Fees are the city's published programme fees and change; check them at the city before registering.
The details
Getting there
The centre sits in Senior Center Park, which the city's parks page describes as carrying picnic tables, tennis courts, a small basketball court and open areas alongside the building itself. It is the only one of the six parks with a staffed building on it, and the same address carries the volunteer fire station, which makes 4601 South 300 West the single busiest civic site in the city.
Before you go
- Lunch needs a day's notice. The reservation requirement is twenty four hours in advance and the donation is suggested rather than charged.
- The building shares its site with the fire station. The General Plan records both as one construction with seismic upgrades, and both publish the same address.
- The courts at this park are listed as tennis on the parks page and as tennis and pickleball elsewhere. Treat pickleball as unconfirmed and ring the centre on 801-621-0161.
- Weber Human Services provides the senior services behind the daily meals, entertainment, activities and excursions, on the General Plan's own description.
The acreage you will find for the city's main park did not come from the city, the county or the state. No acreage is published for any Washington Terrace park by any public body, checked across the city's parks page, its parks and recreation index, its parks master plan landing page and the General Plan on 22 August 2026. A figure of 27.4 acres for Rohmer Park circulates on walking and trip planning applications, and it was not found at any issuing body, so it is not printed here as a fact. The same caution applies to hours, which no city page states for any park, and to fees, which appear only for the youth programmes and the senior lunch. If a listing quotes a park size, a park opening time or a park fee for this city, it is not repeating anything the city has published, and the only reliable route to any of it is the city switchboard on 801-393-8681.
Living with it
Six small parks within two square miles, and everything with a queue for it in another city.
The honest scale of outdoor life at a Washington Terrace address starts with what is actually here: six parks, one of them large enough to hold the city's whole June weekend, five of them neighbourhood grass with a playground and half a basketball court. There is no splash pad, no dog park, no aquatic centre and no pool. There is no trail, no trailhead and no river access. Anybody buying here for weekend recreation is buying proximity to other cities' ground rather than to this city's, and the sensible move is to drive to whichever of those actually matters before making an offer rather than after.
What the city does supply is the daily kind of use, and it supplies it at unusually short range. Two square miles with six addressed parks in them means almost every street is a short walk from grass, and the recreation programme covers eleven months of the year with published fees and published seasons. The senior centre serves a hot meal five days a week for a suggested donation with a day's notice, run by the city with a county agency behind it. Those are the things a household uses weekly rather than annually, and they are the strong part of this city's offer.
What it does not supply is anything the region is known for. There is no bench trail in this city, no canyon and no reservoir, and the river at the bottom of the bluff is reached by driving round rather than by walking down. Those belong to the bench guide, the canyon guide, the reservoirs guide and the guide to the two river parkways, and the page on the bluff explains exactly why the last of those is a drive from a city that can see the water from its own back fence.
Six parks with six addresses, six amenity lists and not one published acreage. This is a city that will tell you where something is and never how big it is.
Keep reading
Five more Washington Terrace pages, and the question each one closes.
The June weekend
Terrace Days
Second Friday and Saturday of June, one park, a 4:30 parade and fireworks at ten.
Read the guideThe toll road
Adams Avenue Parkway
Two dollars a car on the only toll road in Utah, and the city wants to talk about it.
Read the guideThe bluff
The bluff and the way down
Two hundred feet down in a quarter kilometre, and no public way to walk any of it.
Read the guideThe hospital
Ogden Regional and the working city
A trauma centre and a district office in a city of 8,998, both posting Ogden mail.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Washington Terrace
The sheriff answers the calls, volunteers run the fire station, one bill covers four.
Read the guideThe whole set
Washington Terrace, in full
A bench city of 8,998 that borders two cities, touches no river, and posts Ogden mail.
Open the companionQuick answers
The parks, answered.
Six on the list the city maintains for the public: Rohmer Park at 5100 South 650 West, Wright Park at 300 East 5400 South, Lion's Park at 375 East 4700 South, George Van-Leeuwen Park at 125 East 4475 South, Victory Park at 275 East 4400 South, and Senior Center Park at 300 West and 4575 South. The city's own documents do not agree, though. The General Plan revised 2022 lists four of those, omits Wright and Senior Center, and adds a church maintained park it states is not city property. The Active Transportation Plan's maps carry two more labels that match no parks page name.
No. No splash pad, dog park, aquatic centre or swimming pool appears on the city's parks page, its parks and recreation index or its General Plan, checked on 22 August 2026. The amenity lists across all six parks run to playgrounds, half court basketball, baseball and multiple use fields, horseshoe pits, picnic tables, a pavilion with a stage, walking paths, water detention basins and tennis courts. Several neighbouring Weber County cities publish at least one of the three, so an expectation carried across a city line will not be met here.
The city does not say, and neither does anybody else. No acreage is published for any Washington Terrace park by the city, the county or any state body, checked across the parks page, the parks and recreation index, the parks master plan landing page and the General Plan on 22 August 2026. A figure of 27.4 acres circulates on walking and trip planning applications and was not found at any public body, so it is not printed here as a fact. What the city does say is that the park is an outstanding example of a regional park and that it is the venue for the annual Terrace Days event.
On the city's own list: three baseball fields, two multiple use fields, horseshoe pits, restrooms, a rentable pavilion with a stage, a half court basketball court, a playground, a large hill area, walking trails around the park, open areas and mature trees. It is the city's one park at scale and it carries three of the four dated events in the published year, Terrace Days, the June film that opens it and the Easter egg hunt. The hill on its western edge is the top of the fall to the river bottoms, and the city makes no view claim and publishes no route down it.
Unconfirmed, and the city's own pages read two different ways. The parks page lists tennis courts at Senior Center Park at 300 West and 4575 South. A walking application lists the same courts as tennis and pickleball courts, and one city surface reads that way too while the parks page does not. Two city readings and no reconciliation, so this page treats pickleball as unconfirmed rather than picking one. The senior centre in the same park can be reached on 801-621-0161 and the city switchboard on 801-393-8681, and either will settle it faster than any listing.
The Civic Senior Community Center at 4601 South 300 West publishes hours of Monday to Friday from nine in the morning until half past two, except holidays, with lunch from noon until one, a twenty four hour advance reservation required, and a suggested donation of $4.00 for ages sixty and over and $6.00 under sixty. The listed activities are exercise, music and dancing, painting, bingo and monthly special events, with monthly calendars published. The General Plan adds that Weber Human Services provides the senior services behind the daily meals, entertainment, activities and excursions, and that the building was updated and expanded in 2009.
Five programmes covering eleven months. Co-ed youth soccer for pre kindergarten to second grade registers January to March and plays April and May on Tuesday and Thursday nights, $50 with a jersey and socks. Baseball and softball, pre kindergarten to ninth grade, registers January to March and plays in May, $50 with a jersey and game hat. Tackle football, second to seventh grade, registers January to June and plays August to October, $140 with a jersey and equipment rental. Youth and girls basketball plays October to December and boys basketball January to March, both $50 with a jersey. Fees change; check at the city.
Yes, at Rohmer Park, which the city describes as having a rentable pavilion with a stage, and the city runs a facility rentals page under its parks and recreation menu. What was not captured in this research is the rental season, the hours or the fee schedule, none of which appeared on the pages read on 22 August 2026. Lion's Park separately carries a pavilion the city measures at 30 feet by 37 feet, without a rental statement attached. Anybody planning around either should ring the city on 801-393-8681 rather than working from a listing.
At 4601 South 300 West, on the same site as the Civic Senior Community Center. The General Plan's accomplishments list records the construction of a fire station and civic centre complete with seismic upgrades, and both departments publish that address. The department is the city's own and it is volunteer staffed: in the city's own words, one volunteer fire chief, two volunteer captains and between 30 and 35 volunteer firefighters, with the station on average receiving over 800 calls for service yearly. Fire Chief Clayton Petersen is named on the city page, with a business line of 801-393-6349.
Six parks, five programmes and a lunch that wants twenty four hours' notice.
Six addressed parks, five youth programmes and a weekday meal programme is a substantial daily offer for a city this size, and almost none of it is what people ask about first. The gaps are. No splash pad, no dog park, no aquatic centre and no pool stands anywhere inside these two square miles, so the sensible test is to drive to whichever of the four a household would genuinely use and time it from the exact street under consideration, because even on ground this compact the answer moves. Two further things are worth a telephone call rather than a search, because neither is published anywhere at all: the pavilion rental season and charge at the city's main park, and whether the courts beside the senior centre are marked for pickleball. Give me the streets on your list and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works this side of the county, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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