Provost Park is the playground at the center of the Provost neighborhood, beside Provost Elementary; the city lists the park and the school at the same address, 629 South 1000 East. Our neighborhood guide describes Provost as southeast Provo's older residential grid of full-grown trees and family brick homes, with the school in the middle of it, and the park is part of that middle.
At a glance
- Address: 629 S 1000 E, Provo (map)
- Size: 2.9 acres
- Pavilion: reservable
What's here
Play
- Playground
Picnics
- Pavilion
Facilities
- Dog waste station
What to know before you go
The city lists a playground and a pavilion you can reserve, without power or lights, and no restrooms or off-street lot. The nearest park with restrooms and fields is Harmon Park, about 0.4 miles north, and Maeser Park, with a basketball court, is about half a mile away.
The neighborhood's name
Provost carries the name the whole city grew from: Provo is named for Étienne Provost, the French-Canadian fur trader who worked central Utah in the 1820s. About a quarter mile southwest of the park, the Provo City Cemetery holds many of the town's first settlers, moved there after 1853 from their first graves, as a 1964 Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker records.
On Provo.com
- Provost neighborhood
- Provost, the neighborhood guide
- Harmon Park: the nearest restrooms and ball fields
- Spring Creek Park: pickleball and basketball to the southwest
Trails from here
- Memorial City Park Loop: 0.4 mi; trailhead about 0.65 mi from the park
- Slate Canyon Trail: 7.7 mi, about 3,231 ft of climbing; trailhead about 0.87 mi from the park
- Provo Peak from Slate Canyon: 12.9 mi, about 6,768 ft of climbing; trailhead about 0.87 mi from the park
- Toad Head Ridge Scramble: 3 mi, about 2,427 ft of climbing; trailhead about 0.86 mi from the park
Lengths and climbing are AllTrails' crowd-measured figures, checked October 12, 2026.
Parks nearby
Sources: Provo City park data, 2026-09-30; HMDB: Pioneer Burial Grounds; Wikipedia: Étienne Provost. Hours and rules: the parks hub.