Bicentennial Park is where Provo dog owners end up, because the fenced dog park inside it is the one place in the city's parks where a dog may run off leash. Most visitors never walk past it to the park's quiet southern corner, and they miss the best thing here: a spring, a pond and a small wetland that grew out of a shopping mall's paperwork.
At a glance
- Address: 1440 S 1600 E, Provo (map)
- Size: 14.9 acres
- Parking: 75 spaces
- Pavilion: reservable (power, lights)
- Restrooms: seasonal
What's here
Play
- Playground
Sports
- Disc golf
Picnics
- Barbecue grills
- Pavilion
- Power outlets
Facilities
- Restrooms
- Drinking fountain
- Dog park
- Dog waste station
- Historical markers
The spring and the wetland
Groundwater surfaces along the foot of a natural slope here, inside the Wasatch Fault Zone, and one spring runs all year. The concrete box beside it is what remains of the Nuttall family's water system: spring water was caught in the basin, pumped up to a house that stood on the knoll at the park's northeast corner, and used on an estate of orchard, pasture and prized gladiolus. A huge Fremont cottonwood by the pond is older than the park.
The wetland around the spring is newer. When a small natural wetland was lost to the construction of the Provo Towne Centre mall in 1997, federal clean-water rules required a replacement, and Provo chose this corner of Bicentennial Park. Willow, red-osier dogwood, Wood's rose, black hawthorn and golden currant were planted as bare-root seedlings that year, and interpretive signs along the path explain each piece.
Dogs, discs and the pavilion
The dog park is the draw, but the park also has a disc golf course, a playground and a reservable pavilion with power and lights. Two of the Rotary Club's Provo history markers stand here, one on how the early settlers survived on fish from Utah Lake and the Provo River, the other on the accident in Provo that hastened the death of church leader Heber C. Kimball.
On Provo.com
- Provost South neighborhood
- Dog parks and pet life in Provo: the leash rules and the off-leash options beyond this park
- Disc golf in Utah Valley: how this course compares with the valley's others
- Things to do in Utah Valley with your dog
Parks nearby
Sources: Provo City park data, 2026-09-30; HMDB: The Nuttall Spring; HMDB: Why Was This Wetland Made?; HMDB: Wetland Shrubs; HMDB: Fremont Cottonwood. Hours and rules: the parks hub.