The parks West Haven
Ten parks, one rule book, four bookable pavilions and two indoor rooms
Ten parks, four pavilions and a barn that seats 124.
West Haven runs its ten parks as one system: the same hours everywhere, the same ten rules everywhere, and one telephone number for the lot. Three of the ten carry any published description at all, four pavilions can be booked between the middle of April and the middle of October, and indoors the city rents a barn on Green Farm Way and a room at City Hall. Here is the whole system, with what the city says about each part of it.
The short answer
West Haven runs ten parks and treats them as one system: every park opens at six in the morning and closes at ten at night, every park is free, and the same ten rules apply at all of them. Four pavilions can be booked, at R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park, which has two, at Sports Park and at Stonefield Park, from 15 April to 15 October on a seventy five dollar cleaning deposit paid by check. Indoors, the city rents The Barn on Green Farm Way for up to 124 people and a community room at City Hall for up to 40. Bookings all run through offices that keep a four day week. Checked August 2026.
The live question
Which of the ten is actually worth driving to?
Three of them, and the city itself tells you which three without meaning to. Of the ten parks on its list, exactly three carry any description at all: R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park at 2825 West 3300 South, Sports Park at 4215 South 3900 West and Stonefield Park at 4529 South 4700 West. Those three have the pavilions, the table counts, the electricity, the restrooms and the playground access written down. The other seven have an address and a name.
That is not a ranking anybody at the city intended and it is a reliable one anyway. A city writes down the things it rents, and it rents pavilions. So if you are driving across town for an afternoon, drive to one of those three. If the park at the end of your own street is one of the other seven, it is a neighborhood green rather than a destination, and you will learn more about it in ten minutes of standing in it than from anything published.
Two more things follow from the same silence. No acreage is published for any West Haven park, so nobody outside the city knows which is the biggest, and no parking statement is published for any of them either. The one parking rule the city does publish is that there is no overnight parking in any park, including for semis and other large vehicles. Everything else about how you arrive is left to your judgement.
The exception to all of it is Prevedel Park Campground at 1300 South 2300 West, which is on the park list like the others and behaves like nothing else in the county, because the city rents overnight camping spots on the trail beside it. The river page covers that ground properly.
All ten
The whole park system, and exactly what the city says about each one.
Ten parks on ten and a half square miles, from the city's own list. The third column is the entire published description in each case, which is the honest way to show where the record is thick and where it is thin.
| The park | Address | What the city publishes about it | Bookable |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park | 2825 W 3300 S | Two pavilions with 26 and 8 tables, playground access, electricity, a kitchenette and restrooms; also the Parks and Recreation office | Yes, two pavilions |
| Sports Park | 4215 S 3900 W | A pavilion with 5 large tables, playground access, electricity and restrooms, and no kitchenette | Yes, one pavilion |
| Stonefield Park | 4529 S 4700 W | A pavilion with 9 tables, playground access, electricity, a kitchenette and restrooms | Yes, one pavilion |
| Prevedel Park Campground | 1300 S 2300 W | Overnight camping spots on the trail just north of the city cemetery, arranged through Parks and Recreation | By telephone only |
| Holmes Estates Park | 2450 W 1800 S | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
| Fair Grove Park | 4200 S 4700 W | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
| Country Haven Park | 3950 S 3650 W | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
| Staker Park | 3549 W 2875 S | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
| Sycamore Park | 2287 W 2625 S | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
| Tuscan Meadows Park | 3150 S 2150 W | An address. Nothing else is published | No |
Every row above is West Haven City's own park list and its own descriptions, read 27 August 2026. No acreage and no parking statement is published for any of the ten. All ten share the same hours, six in the morning to ten at night, and the same rule book. The city hub on this site counts nine or more parks; the city's own list runs to ten.
One rule book governs all ten and it is worth reading once, because it is stricter than most and it is enforced at the events as well as on ordinary days. No alcoholic beverages and no glass containers. The parks are a smoke free zone. No horses on the grass. No fireworks. No overnight parking, including semis and other large vehicles. Pets must be kept on leashes, and the city adds its own instruction to pick up after them. No inflatable toys, dunking machines or anything similar, which rules out the bouncy castle a lot of families would otherwise bring. No motorised vehicles except wheelchairs on the lawns. No unauthorised team sports on the fields and courts. And the parks are under twenty four hour video surveillance.
The hours are the other thing to have right. Every park opens at six in the morning and closes at ten at night, and the city adds that reservations end promptly at ten, which is a sentence written by somebody who has had to move a party along. There is no separate winter schedule published and no seasonal closure for any of the ten.
Reservations run 15 April to 15 October only, in one of two time slots a day or as a full day booking, and every booking takes a seventy five dollar cleaning deposit in the form of a check. The city publishes no rental rate beyond that deposit anywhere on the page, which means the deposit is the only number you can plan with and the telephone is the only way to get the rest. Parks and Recreation is at 2825 West 3300 South on 801-731-8882, Monday to Thursday from nine until five.
The park system at a glance
10
parks on the city's own list, of which three carry any published description
4
bookable pavilions, at Country Park, which has two, Sports Park and Stonefield Park
6 AM to 10 PM
the hours at every park, all year, with no separate winter schedule
0
published acreages and published parking statements across all ten parks
The big one
R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park, two pavilions, an arena, and the counter you book everything at.
This is the park the city built its civic life around. The Large Pavilion takes twenty six tables, which is a genuinely big shelter by the standards of any city park in this county, and the Arena Pavilion takes eight. Both come with electricity, a kitchenette, restrooms and playground access, which is a better standard than most municipal pavilions offer and the reason these two book out first in June.
The second thing on this ground is the arena, and it is the least documented public facility in the city. The city names an Arena Pavilion here, lists a park and arena reservation among the things the Parks Department books, and holds a rodeo strand here every June. What it does not publish anywhere is an arena capacity, a surface, a size or a rental rate. So the arena is real, bookable and completely undescribed, and the only route to any of those numbers is the telephone.
Third, the Parks and Recreation office sits on this ground at 2825 West 3300 South, which makes this the counter for everything the department runs: pavilions, the arena, the cemetery appointments and the camping on the river trail. Monday to Thursday, nine to five, on 801-731-8882. If you are dealing with West Haven at all, this is the number. The calendar page covers what happens on this ground in the fourth week of June.
The details
Getting there
The park sits on 3300 South at about 2825 West, which on the Ogden grid is a straight run north and east from City Hall at 4150 South 3900 West, two and a half miles and six to eight minutes. Come here rather than to City Hall if the errand is a park booking, a cemetery appointment or a night on the trail, because this is where that department actually sits.
Before you go
- The Large Pavilion takes twenty six tables and the Arena Pavilion eight; both have electricity, a kitchenette and restrooms.
- Book between 15 April and 15 October, in one of two daily slots or as a full day, on a seventy five dollar deposit by check.
- Reservations end promptly at ten at night, and the park closes at the same hour.
- The arena has no published capacity, surface or rate. Ask on 801-731-8882 rather than assuming anything.
- Late June is the one week this park is not a quiet park. The city's biggest event is held here.
The other two you can book
Sports Park is the City Hall park, and Stonefield sits out on the west side.
Sports Park at 4215 South 3900 West is effectively the City Hall park: its address and the city offices at 4150 South 3900 West sit within a few dozen feet of one another, which makes it the easiest park in the city to combine with an errand. Its pavilion takes five large tables and has electricity, restrooms and playground access, and the city is careful to say that there is no kitchenette here, which is the one difference between this shelter and the other three.
Stonefield Park at 4529 South 4700 West is the west side option and it is the better equipped of the two: nine tables, electricity, a kitchenette, restrooms and playground access. It also sits nearest to the schools on the western half of the city, which for a household on that side makes it the practical default rather than a drive across town to Country Park.
Both run on the same rule book, the same hours and the same reservation terms as everything else, which is the whole point of the way this city runs its parks. Learn the rules once and they apply everywhere, including at the campground on the river and at the events in June.
The details
Getting there
Sports Park shares its corner of the grid with City Hall at 4150 South 3900 West, so if you are already at the city offices you are already there. Stonefield Park is out at 4529 South 4700 West on the west side, about a mile and a half further west, five to seven minutes by car on the section roads.
Before you go
- Sports Park's pavilion is the one without a kitchenette. Bring what you need or book one of the other three.
- Stonefield's pavilion takes nine tables with a kitchenette and restrooms, which makes it the best equipped shelter on the west side.
- Both take the same seventy five dollar deposit by check and the same 15 April to 15 October season.
- Both close at ten at night with everything else, and reservations end promptly at that hour.
- The citywide rules apply at both: no alcohol or glass, no fireworks, pets leashed, no inflatable toys and no motorised vehicles on the lawns.
Seven of the ten parks publish an address and nothing else, and no West Haven park publishes an acreage or a parking place. Holmes Estates, Fair Grove, Country Haven, Staker, Sycamore and Tuscan Meadows all appear on the city's list with a street address and no description whatever, and Prevedel Park is described only by its camping sentence. So a family planning an afternoon at one of the seven cannot find out from any city source whether it has a playground, a restroom, a shelter, a court or a path, and the amenity lists that circulate on park directory sites for these names were not published by West Haven. Treat them as neighborhood ground, go and look before you plan around one, and if a specific facility matters, call Parks and Recreation on 801-731-8882 during the four day office week.
Indoors
A barn that seats 124, and a community room the city gives away to over sixties.
The city rents two indoor rooms and one of them is genuinely unusual. The Barn at 3785 South Green Farm Way is a city rentable hall inside the Green Farm development, available every day of the week from nine in the morning until nine at night, with the event ending promptly at nine and clean-up finished by ten. Its maximum is 124 people and the city says that number must be kept to at all times. It goes on a first come, first served basis through City Hall on 801-731-4519, and no fee or deposit is published anywhere for it.
The Community Room at City Hall, 4150 South 3900 West, is the smaller option: a maximum of 40 people, ten tables and 32 chairs, available every day including business hours until ten at night, bookable up to one month at a time. Residents aged 60 and over may use it free of charge during business hours, which is the only concession the city publishes for any of its facilities. For everybody else, no fee is published, which again means a telephone call.
Between them, a barn for 124 and a room for 40 are the whole of the city's indoor public space. There is no library branch here, no recreation center and no municipal pool, so an indoor booking in West Haven means one of these two or a drive to a neighbouring city. That absence is a real feature of life here and it is covered properly on the page on moving here.
The details
Getting there
Green Farm Way is a newer street inside the Green Farm development, between Sports Park and Country Haven Park on the grid, roughly a mile and a half from City Hall. It is new enough that some mapping services have not caught up with it, so if a route fails, navigate to 3785 South and work east or west along the development's own streets. Bookings and enquiries go through City Hall on 801-731-4519.
Before you go
- The hall holds 124 people and the city says that ceiling applies at all times, not on average.
- The event ends promptly at nine at night and clean-up has to be finished by ten. That is a hard stop, not a guideline.
- It is first come, first served, so ring early for a June or December date.
- No fee or deposit is published for The Barn or for the Community Room. Ask when you book.
- The Community Room at City Hall is free to residents aged 60 and over during business hours, and holds 40 with ten tables and 32 chairs.
The recreation program
Fourteen youth sports, and two of them in a city with nowhere obvious to hold them.
The recreation department runs a longer list than the park system would suggest. In the city's own words the youth activities are baseball, softball, machine pitch, t-ball, boys and girls basketball, hockey, flag football, tackle football, tennis, pickleball, karate, fishing, archery, and an outdoor recreation camp. Sign-ups go through the city's own sports portal and schedules and standings through a separate scores site, both linked from the recreation page. The office is at City Hall on 801-731-4519, Monday to Thursday, nine to five.
Two entries on that list are worth a second look. West Haven publishes no fishery and no archery range anywhere in the city, and it runs a fishing program and an archery program. Where either is held is not published. It is not a contradiction, it is just a gap: a small department books ground it does not own, and nobody has written down where. If either is the reason your household is interested, that is a call to make before you sign up.
What is also not published is money. The recreation page refers to a fee schedule for the arena and the athletic fields and the schedule itself does not appear on the page, and no registration fee or sign-up window is published for any of the fourteen programs. So the department is genuinely busy and genuinely hard to plan around from a screen, and the four day office week is the constraint on fixing that.
Living with it
Ten parks and one telephone number, which is either simple or maddening depending on the day.
The good version of this is real. Ten parks in ten and a half square miles is a lot of green for a city this size, they are all free, they all keep the same hours, and one rule book covers the lot, so a household learns the system once. Four bookable pavilions, three of them with a kitchenette, is more sheltered ground than several larger cities in this county manage. And a barn you can rent for 124 people, in a city of twenty five thousand with no other hall, is a genuine asset that almost nobody outside the city knows exists.
The hard version is the four day week and the silence. Everything here is booked by telephone, at an office that is shut on Friday and at the weekend, with no rental rate published for any of it. Seven of the ten parks are undescribed. No park publishes an acreage or a place to put a car. The recreation department runs fourteen programs and publishes no fee for any of them. None of that is a failing of the parks themselves; it is what a young city with a small staff looks like from outside.
The practical advice for anybody choosing a street here is to find out which park is the nearest one and go and stand in it, because published information will not tell you what is in it. And if a pavilion or the barn matters for a family event, ring in the winter for a June date rather than in the spring. The ranked list puts the parks in the context of everything else worth doing in the city.
One rule book, one set of hours, one telephone number and no rates published anywhere. West Haven runs its parks the way a small town runs everything, and it is a city now.
Keep reading
Five more West Haven pages, and what each one is for.
Things to do
The top 5, ranked
Five picks, ranked, from a night on the trail to the fourth weekend in June.
Read the guideThe river
The river trail and the camping
A 5.5 mile trail the city never names, and campsites it books by telephone.
Read the guideThe calendar
West Haven Days and the year
A rodeo week, five recurring rules, and an arts council with three shows.
Read the guideThe water
Which district serves the address
Four culinary districts, eight irrigation sources, and no city water utility.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to West Haven
Half the houses are newer than 2011, and some of the growth is not in the city.
Read the guideThe whole set
West Haven, in full
Ten parks, a trail with campsites, four water districts and 25,000 people on flat ground.
See all six pagesQuick answers
The parks, answered.
Ten, on the city's own list: R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park, Sports Park, Stonefield Park, Prevedel Park Campground, Holmes Estates Park, Fair Grove Park, Country Haven Park, Staker Park, Sycamore Park and Tuscan Meadows Park. All ten are free to enter, all ten open at six in the morning and close at ten at night, and one rule book covers every one of them. Three of the ten carry any published description; the rest appear with an address and a name and nothing more.
Through Parks and Recreation at 2825 West 3300 South on 801-731-8882, Monday to Thursday from nine to five. There is no Friday, no weekend and no online booking form. The season runs 15 April to 15 October, there are two time slots a day or a full day option, and every booking takes a seventy five dollar cleaning deposit in the form of a check. The city publishes no rental rate beyond that deposit, so the telephone call is the only route to the total cost.
Three parks and four pavilions. R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park has two, the Large Pavilion with 26 tables and the Arena Pavilion with 8, both with playground access, electricity, a kitchenette and restrooms. Sports Park has one with 5 large tables, playground access, electricity and restrooms and specifically no kitchenette. Stonefield Park has one with 9 tables, playground access, electricity, a kitchenette and restrooms. No other West Haven park publishes a pavilion or any other amenity.
Ten of them, and they apply at every city park. No alcoholic beverages or glass containers. The parks are smoke free. No horses on the grass. No fireworks. No overnight parking, including semis and other large vehicles. Pets must be kept on leashes and owners must pick up after them. No inflatable toys, dunking machines or similar. No motorised vehicles except wheelchairs on the lawns. No unauthorised team sports on the fields and courts. And the parks are under twenty four hour video surveillance.
Every park opens at six in the morning and closes at ten at night, all year, with no separate winter schedule and no seasonal closure published for any of the ten. The city adds that reservations end promptly at ten, which is worth taking literally if you have booked a pavilion for an evening. The pavilion reservation season is a separate thing from the hours: pavilions can only be booked between 15 April and 15 October, while the parks themselves stay open every day of the year.
Two rooms, both through the city. The Barn at 3785 South Green Farm Way holds up to 124 people, is available every day from nine in the morning to nine at night with clean-up finished by ten, and goes on a first come first served basis. The Community Room at City Hall, 4150 South 3900 West, holds 40 with ten tables and 32 chairs, is available every day including business hours until ten at night, and can be booked up to a month at a time. No fee is published for either. Bookings go through 801-731-4519.
Neither. There is no municipal recreation center and no municipal swimming pool anywhere in the city, and no library branch either. What the city runs instead is a program rather than a building: youth baseball, softball, machine pitch, t-ball, basketball, hockey, flag football, tackle football, tennis, pickleball, karate, fishing, archery and an outdoor recreation camp, with sign-ups through the city's own sports portal. Indoor bookings mean The Barn, the Community Room, or a drive to a neighbouring city.
Nobody outside the city knows, because West Haven publishes no acreage for any of its ten parks. That is unusual: most cities in this county publish a size for each park record, and it is the figure people use to work out which is the destination and which is a green at the end of a street. Table counts in the pavilions are the closest thing to a scale that the city does publish, and on that measure R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park is clearly the largest, with a pavilion taking twenty six tables.
Not published, for any of the ten. The city's parks page carries no parking statement at all, and its single published parking rule is that overnight parking is not allowed in any city park, including for semis and other large vehicles. In practice that means street parking and your own judgement, and it matters most at Prevedel Park, where the city rents overnight camping spots on the trail and also bans overnight parking without reconciling the two. Ask Parks and Recreation on 801-731-8882 before leaving a vehicle overnight.
Ten parks, one rule book, and a system a household learns in an afternoon.
Parks are the part of a city you use most and research least, and West Haven's are worth walking before you choose a street, because published information will not tell you what is in seven of the ten. While you are out there the other questions are worth asking too: which of four culinary districts serves the parcel, whether the ground is inside the city or on the county land around it, and how much of the building on the edges is city ground at all. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works these streets, and stay on the file for the research and the financing side.
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