The valley's second city, and the one most often flattened into a hyphen with Provo. Orem is bigger than its reputation suggests, has its own downtown problem and its own answer to it at University Place, and sends its children to three high schools that locals can rank without hesitating.
This is a front door, not an article. Every link below goes to a guide already published on this site, and nothing on this page asserts a fact about Orem that is not carried and dated on the page it points to. 17 guides are indexed here.
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Schools
Orem is served today by Alpine School District, which dissolves on 1 July 2027. From that date its schools pass to Timpanogos School District. Both pages carry the detail, and boundary studies inside the new district may still move individual schools, so treat the district line as the district line and not as an attendance area.
What is on in Orem
Dated entries from the events calendar filtered to Orem. Each one carries its own verified dates.
- Orem Sunset Market — Wednesdays at City Center Park August 26, 2026
- Orem City Council Meeting September 8, 2026
- Orem Tour of Frights 2026 — the city's Halloween display route October 15, 2026
- Orem City Truck-or-Treat 2026 — University Place October 17, 2026
Recently opened in Orem
From the openings tracker. Each row is an index over coverage published on this site, with the date it was reported.
- The Cheesecake Factory — Open at University Place since July 2, 2024. Listed here as 'announced' from May to September 2026 on a misdated post; corrected in public at the same URL. reported 2026-09-01
The rest of the valley
Every city front door sits under Living in Utah Valley, and the valley-wide guides are on things to do and in food and drink. The tools page collects the finders and calculators, and the events calendar carries every dated entry for the whole county.