Things to Do in Springville, Utah (2026)

Abigail Giordano Senior Writer, Provo.com

Springville calls itself Art City, and unlike most civic nicknames, this one is load-bearing. The city has been collecting and showing art since before Utah had much of an art establishment to speak of, and the museum that resulted is still free, still ambitious, and still the reason most first-time visitors make the drive.

But the art is only half of it. Hobble Creek Canyon opens straight off the east edge of town, the first craft brewery in Utah County is here, and there's a motorcycle collection tucked into an industrial park that people fly in to see. Here's how to spend a day in Springville.

The Springville Museum of Art

Start here. The Springville Museum of Art is the oldest museum in Utah devoted to the visual fine arts, completed in 1937 in a Spanish Colonial Revival building that was originally part of Springville High School. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and the building alone justifies the stop.

The collection runs to roughly 3,000 works across dozens of galleries, with three main concentrations: a deep survey of Utah art spanning about 150 years, American realist painting, and — unexpectedly — a substantial collection of Russian and Soviet-era work. There's an outdoor sculpture garden, and the museum mounts more than a dozen changing exhibitions a year, several of them juried shows featuring Utah artists.

Admission is free, with donations encouraged. One practical warning: the museum's opening hours have shifted over the years, and the listings scattered across travel sites and directories genuinely contradict each other — especially about Sundays and Mondays. Check the museum's own site before you drive out.

The museum's roots go back further than the building. The story starts in 1903, when artists Cyrus E. Dallin and John Hafen donated work to Springville High School — a gift that eventually grew into a civic institution and gave the city its nickname.

Art City Days

The city's community festival, Art City Days, lands in the first full week of June. It carries the usual and welcome Utah small-city festival apparatus — a parade, a carnival, fireworks — plus a hot air balloon launch that is the most photographed thing in Springville that week.

Like every festival in this guide, the specific schedule moves. Check the current lineup rather than trusting a list written the year before.

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon opens directly off the east side of town, and it's the reason a lot of Springville residents never feel the need to drive to the bigger canyons. The road up is a genuinely pretty drive with picnic areas and creekside pullouts, and it's a strong fall-colors route without the traffic that the Alpine Loop attracts in October.

Hobble Creek Golf Course sits up the canyon and has a good reputation locally — a mountain setting at a municipal price. Tee times and seasonal closures vary with weather, so call ahead in shoulder season.

Strap Tank and the Legends motorcycle collection

Strap Tank Brewing opened in Springville in 2016 as the first craft brewery in Utah County in more than a century, and it's grown into a large, family-friendly brewpub with a vintage-motorcycle theme running through the whole building.

The genuinely unusual part is next door. Across the parking lot, the Legends Motorcycle building houses a collection of rare and vintage bikes — including the unrestored Strap Tank motorcycle the brewery is named for, one of only a few known to exist. Access arrangements for the collection can vary, so confirm before making a special trip.

Downtown and eating in town

Downtown Springville runs along Main and State Streets, with the older brick storefronts and unhurried pace of a town that was established long before the valley's growth boom reached it. There are boutiques, local restaurants, and enough to justify parking once and walking.

Springville's dining is a mix of long-running local institutions and newer arrivals — Magleby's and Pier 49 Pizza are among the names locals reach for, alongside Strap Tank. Restaurants turn over faster than museums do, so check current hours before building an evening around any one of them.

Make a day of it

The standard Springville day is museum, then canyon: an hour or two with the art in the morning, lunch downtown, and an afternoon drive up Hobble Creek. It works in essentially every season, which is more than most itineraries in this valley can claim.

In June, reorganize around Art City Days. In October, flip the order and drive the canyon first while the light is good. And because Springville is only about 10 to 15 minutes from Provo, it slots easily into a day that starts somewhere else — pair it with Spanish Fork next door for a full south-valley loop, or keep going south to Payson and the Nebo Loop if you want the drive itself to be the point.

Thinking about living here?

A free museum of that quality, a canyon at the edge of town, and a location this central tend to prompt questions about what it costs to live here. Our complete guide to living in Springville covers housing, schools, the I-15 commute, and daily life in Art City. For a quieter, more rural-feeling contrast right against the foothills, Mapleton is next door.

Springville is the rare Utah Valley city whose identity isn't borrowed from a mountain or a university. It built one, and then kept it free.

Abigail Giordano

Senior Writer

Abigail Giordano is a senior writer at Provo.com covering student life, family resources, and community events across Utah Valley. Her writing focuses on making Provo more accessible and navigable for newcomers, students, and families — the practical guides that help people feel at home faster.