Fort Utah Park is under construction. On September 8, 2026 Provo closed the skate park and the main parking lot to rebuild the 1999 skate bowl as the Fort Utah All-Wheels Park, with a new skate park, an asphalt pump track, jump lines and about 230 parking stalls. The city's plan grows the main lot from 88 stalls to about 230, adds more than 100 shade trees, moves the skate park to the north end, replaces the playground and builds a restroom that can stay open year-round; the Daughters of Utah Pioneers monument is to move to a more protected spot within the park. Until the work is done, expected to run into spring 2027, the fields, the replica fort and the river trail stay open from a small temporary lot.
At a glance
- Address: 200 N Geneva Rd, Provo (map)
- Size: 14.6 acres
- Parking: 126 spaces
- Pavilion: reservable
- Restrooms: seasonal
What's here
Play
- Playground
- Skate park
Sports
- Soccer field
- Baseball field
- Volleyball court
- Rugby field
Picnics
- Pavilion
Trails and nature
- Walking and bike path
- Provo River Trail access
- River access
Facilities
- Restrooms
- Drinking fountain
- Dog waste station
- Historical markers
Where Provo started
The park takes its name from the settlers' first fort, built in the spring of 1849 near today's Geneva Road and 200 North, just south of the Provo River. A 1937 Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker inside the park remembers it, and the park holds a replica fort. The original was abandoned after flooding in 1850, when the settlers moved to higher ground where North Park is now.
Two of the Rotary Club's history plaques here are about Utah Lake's lighter side: a homemade 18-foot sleigh-boat driven across the frozen lake by an airplane engine and propeller, with no brakes, and the 90-foot showboat that two Provo men, Hewitt Strong and Elmer Smith, started building beside the Provo River in 1931, dance floor and all.
Using the park
Fort Utah is the city's west-side sports park: a youth baseball fourplex that opened in 1994, a soccer field, a rugby field and sand volleyball, with a playground, restrooms and a reservable pavilion. Provo's younger youth baseball leagues play here. The Provo River Trail runs through the park, but while the main lot is closed, riders starting a flat river ride are better off parking at Paul Ream Wilderness Park or Utah Lake State Park.
On Provo.com
- Fort Utah neighborhood
- Skate parks in Utah Valley: the rebuild's details and where to skate until it opens
- West Provo, the neighborhood guide
- Youth baseball and softball in Utah Valley
- The Provo River Parkway trail
Parks nearby
Sources: Provo City park data, 2026-09-30; HMDB: Fort Utah (1937 marker); Provo City: Parks Projects; HMDB: A Curious Craft Once Skimmed the Ice on Utah Lake; HMDB: Large Showboat Once Sailed on Utah Lake; HMDB: Craghead Field; Wikipedia: Fort Utah. Hours and rules: the parks hub.