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A rodeo week in June, four more events across the year, and how to plan a visit
West Haven Days and the rest of the year
West Haven Days is the city's big week, the fourth weekend in June, built around a rodeo, a parade, a car show, a flapjack breakfast and fireworks. Four more city events fill out the calendar, and each one falls on the same point in the year every time, so once you know the rule you know the season. Here is the whole year, what happens at the June week, and how to plan a visit when the finer detail lands close to the date.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
West Haven Days runs on the fourth weekend in June, the city's biggest week of the year: a rodeo strand, a parade on the Saturday morning, a car show, a flapjack breakfast, a free swim day and a firework show, centered on R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park at 2825 West 3300 South. Four more city events fill out the calendar, and each one falls on the same point in the year every time, so once you know the rule you know the season. West Haven does not charge to walk the grounds of any of them, and the finer detail, the times and the full schedule, lands close to each event.
The whole calendar
Five city events, each on the same weekend every year
West Haven runs five city events across the year, and the useful thing about all of them is that each one falls on the same point in the calendar every time. You do not have to hunt for a date. The Easter Egg Hunt is a Saturday morning around Easter at Country Park (2026: March 28; Easter was April 5), run with the City Youth Council. Touch-a-Truck is the first Monday in May, the afternoon the city parks its own working trucks where children can climb on them. West Haven Days is the fourth weekend in June, the big one. The Pumpkin Walk is the Monday before Halloween. Heart of the Holidays opens December on the first Monday after Thanksgiving.
Two of those five, the Pumpkin Walk and Heart of the Holidays, land on a Monday evening rather than a weekend, and both are the sort of event people assume is a Saturday. If you are new to the city, those are the two to get into the diary correctly. Start times and locations for each event are posted closer to the day, so the city's number, 801-731-4519, is the one to call the week before if a particular event is the reason for the trip.
The year, in order
The big week
West Haven Days, the fourth weekend in June
West Haven Days is a proper small-city summer week, and the thing that sets it apart from every other city day in the valley is the rodeo. The week carries a whole rodeo strand, a Miss Rodeo West Haven pageant, mutton bustin', a youth rodeo, cowboy mounted shooting and an open rodeo, in a part of the county where most towns have let that tradition go. Around it runs the rest of a classic city week: a parade, a car show, a flapjack breakfast, a pickleball tournament, a kids fair, a stick horse race, a fun run, and dinner, a movie and a concert in the park, finished with a firework show. The rodeo, the parade and the fireworks are the fixtures; the smaller lineup shifts a little year to year.
The whole thing centers on R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park at 2825 West 3300 South, the city's largest park and the home of its two biggest pavilions, one of which the city calls the Arena Pavilion, alongside the Parks and Recreation office. The shape of the week is the familiar one: a morning that belongs to the parade, an afternoon of cars and food, and a night that ends in fireworks. Times and the full schedule go up close to the event, so plan the shape of the day and check the organizer's schedule for the exact hours. The ranked things-to-do guide sets this week beside the other four reasons to make the trip out here.
The details
Getting there
The Ogden street grid does the navigating. The park sits at 2825 West and 3300 South, and from City Hall at 4150 South 3900 West it is a short run east along 3300 South, easy on an ordinary day and slow on the parade morning. Neither the city nor the organizer posts a parking lot for the week, so arrive well before the morning events and count on walking in the last few blocks.
Before you go
- The fourth weekend in June is the fixed point. The exact schedule and times go up close to the event, so confirm them with the organizer or the city on 801-731-4519 in the spring.
- There is a parade on the Saturday morning. The route and start time are posted close to the date, so arrive early and plan to walk in from a few blocks out.
- West Haven has no pool of its own, so its free swim day is at the Roy Aquatic Center (2977 W 5200 S, Roy), for West Haven residents with proof of residency.
- The usual city park rules apply at the venue: no alcohol or glass containers, no personal fireworks, pets on leashes, and no motorized vehicles on the lawns.
- If a single event is the reason for the journey, 801-731-4519 is the number, because the fine detail does not go up until close to the week.
The arts festival
An arts festival, a quilt show and a chalk-art competition
West Haven's arts council runs more than most people realize. Alongside the five city events, it puts on one West Haven Arts Festival, usually a Saturday evening in September at the City Building, free, with an art show, a quilt show and a chalk art contest inside it. It also runs monthly workshops at The Barn and a storytelling night in October.
If an arts festival is the reason for a trip, the city's number, 801-731-4519, is the reliable way to get a date, and it is also where you ask about a vendor or art-show table. The monthly classes are the steadier commitment: they run through the year and book through the city's recreation portal, the same place as the baseball and the basketball.
If you live here
A calendar that mostly writes itself
For a household here the calendar is easy to live with. Four of the five city events are single days, and the fifth is a week you can see coming a year out. The two to get right are the Mondays: the Pumpkin Walk before Halloween and Heart of the Holidays after Thanksgiving, both on a school-night evening rather than the weekend most people expect.
The June week is the one that changes how a street feels. The city's biggest park turns into a rodeo ground and a parade route for several days, and if you live near 3300 South and 2825 West that is either the best week of the year or the week you head out of town. It is worth walking that side of the city in late June before you commit to a street there, because the streets that carry the parade and the rodeo traffic are not marked on any map.
This is also a city with no theater, no cinema and no library branch of its own, so the events calendar carries more weight here than it would in a bigger place, and the parks and the arts council carry more than their share of it. The parks guide has the recreation program and the pavilions behind all of it.
Five city events a year, a rodeo week among them, is a lot of showing up for a city this young. It is one of the truer signals you get about a place before you have lived a full year in it.
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The year, answered
The fourth weekend in June. West Haven sets it on that standing rule rather than a date it reissues every year, so the timing holds season to season. The full schedule with start times goes up closer to the event, so put the fourth weekend in June on your calendar now and confirm the detail with the organizer or the city on 801-731-4519 in the spring.
The week is built around a rodeo strand, a Miss Rodeo West Haven pageant, mutton bustin', a youth rodeo, cowboy mounted shooting and an open rodeo, which is what sets it apart from the other city days in the valley. Around it run a parade, a car show, a flapjack breakfast, a firework show and a spread of smaller events across several days: a pickleball tournament, a kids fair, a stick horse race, a fun run, a free swim day, and dinner, a movie and a concert in the park. The rodeo, the parade and the fireworks are the fixtures; the smaller lineup shifts a little year to year.
The week centers on R. Kenneth Baldwin Country Park at 2825 West 3300 South, the city's largest park. It holds the city's two biggest pavilions, one of which the city calls the Arena Pavilion, and it houses the Parks and Recreation office. That is about two and a half miles east of City Hall along 3300 South. Individual events can move around the grounds, so check the organizer's schedule for the exact spot once it posts.
Four more, each on a recurring rule. The Easter Egg Hunt is a Saturday morning around Easter at Country Park (2026: March 28; Easter was April 5), run with the City Youth Council. Touch-a-Truck is the first Monday in May. The Pumpkin Walk is the Monday before Halloween. Heart of the Holidays is the first Monday after Thanksgiving. Two of the four fall on a Monday evening rather than a weekend, which is the detail most people get wrong. The city's arts council separately runs one West Haven Arts Festival, usually a Saturday evening in September at the City Building, free, with an art show, a quilt show and a chalk art contest inside it.
Yes, on the Saturday morning of the week. The route and the start time are posted close to the event rather than months ahead, so there is no reliable way to pick a curbside spot far in advance. The practical move is to arrive early on the parade morning and plan to walk in from a few blocks out, since the streets nearest the park fill first.
West Haven does not charge to walk the grounds of its city events. A specific activity may carry its own fee, so if the cost of one event matters to your plan, confirm it with the city on 801-731-4519. The usual city park rules apply at the venue whatever the pricing: no alcoholic beverages or glass containers, no personal fireworks, pets on leashes, and no motorized vehicles on the lawns.
The free swim day is at the Roy Aquatic Center (2977 W 5200 S, Roy), for West Haven residents with proof of residency. West Haven has no swimming pool of its own.
Yes. The city's arts council runs one West Haven Arts Festival, usually a Saturday evening in September at the City Building, free, with an art show, a quilt show and a chalk art contest inside it. It also runs monthly workshops at The Barn and a storytelling night in October. Call the city on 801-731-4519 to confirm the date or to ask about a vendor table.
An appointed Community Events Committee coordinates the volunteers and staff who run the city's annual events. It is reachable through City Hall at 4150 South 3900 West on 801-731-4519, during the city's Monday to Thursday office week. West Haven Days also runs its own event site, which carries the roster and the posted schedule. The arts council is a separate city committee, supported out of the same building and reached on the same number.
An events calendar tells you a lot, and West Haven keeps a full one
A year with five city events, a rodeo week among them, is one of the more honest things a place shows you before you have lived there. West Haven does all of it on flat, fast-growing ground west of Ogden. If a year like that reads like somewhere you could settle into, the questions that come next are the ones a calendar cannot answer: whether an address that says West Haven sits inside the city, how the newer subdivisions differ from the older streets, and what a given budget buys here now. Tell me what you are weighing, and I will connect you with a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works these streets while I stay on for the research and the financing side.
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