We built these tools because the questions behind them come up constantly — "What neighborhood should I live in?", "How much does it cost to live here?", "Where should I eat tonight?" Rather than send you to a generic national tool that doesn't know Provo, these are built specifically for Utah Valley with local data.
Things to Do Today
Tell it the hours you have, who is coming, your budget and whether you have a car. It reads Provo's weather, air quality and sunset, knows the Sunday and Monday rules, and builds a same-day plan from our guides.
Build a Plan →Neighborhood Quiz
Answer 7 questions about your lifestyle, budget, and priorities — get a personalized neighborhood recommendation with rent estimates, walkability scores, and honest pros and cons.
Take the Quiz →Cost of Living Calculator
Enter your income and get a realistic monthly budget breakdown for Provo — rent, groceries, utilities, transportation, and entertainment with local pricing data.
Calculate Your Costs →Student Budget Calculator
Built for BYU and UVU money, which arrives in semester lumps rather than twelve equal months. Enter your own numbers and see the month tuition lands separately from the average.
Build Your Budget →Mortgage Calculator
Your full monthly payment on a Utah County home — principal, interest, property taxes with Utah's primary-residence exemption, insurance, PMI, and HOA.
Calculate Your Payment →Rent Affordability Calculator
What rent can you actually afford in Provo? The 30% rule, the 3x-income screen landlords use, and how roommates change the math.
Set Your Budget →Move-In Checklist Generator
Student, family or working adult, renting or buying, which city, kids, from out of state, bringing a car. 31 possible items narrow to yours: the no-grace-period license rule, the 60-day registration clock, your city's electric utility, the Alpine split, voting and library cards, each linked to the guide that states it.
Build My Checklist →Property Tax Estimator
Estimate annual property taxes on a Utah County home — with the 45% primary-residence exemption applied and an adjustable rate for your district.
Estimate Your Taxes →Home Affordability Calculator
Income, debts and down payment in; a price band out at Fannie Mae's published debt-to-income limits, with property tax from your own Utah County tax area.
Find Your Price Range →Home & Rental Finder
Live home and rental listings, 52 apartment communities and 116 new-construction communities on one map, filtered by city, beds, price, pets and who the housing is for. Save a search for alerts.
Start Searching →New-Construction Finder
106 builder communities from 15 builders, with advertised starting prices, plus 10 new developments from our guides, filterable by city, builder, price and status, on one map, each with the source behind it.
See What's Being Built →Closing-Cost Estimator
Cash to close on a Utah County home, in the same order as your Loan Estimate: the county's $40 recording fee, prepaid interest and escrow worked out, your quotes for the rest.
Estimate Cash to Close →Wedding Budget Calculator
Open house or dinner, luncheon, temple or civil, family flowers: a printable line-item budget with the Utah County license fee built in and national averages shown only as labeled references.
Build Your Budget →Hike Finder
Filter every trail in Utah Valley by difficulty, length, elevation gain, season, dogs and fees. Where published figures disagree — and here they usually do — each trail carries the spread rather than one invented number.
Find a Trail →Restaurant Finder
Filter 50+ Provo restaurants by cuisine, price range, neighborhood, and vibe — or hit the random button and let us pick tonight's dinner for you.
Find a Restaurant →School District & Boundary Finder
Type a Utah County address and see its school district for 2026-27 and after Alpine splits on July 1, 2027, the elementary, middle or junior high and high school its district's own map assigns, the open-enrollment window and the bus rule.
Find Your Schools →Festival & Celebration Finder
Every rodeo week, city celebration, fair and festival in Utah Valley and along the Wasatch Front on one calendar — filter by county, month, city, rodeo, parade, fireworks or free, add any festival to your calendar, and see what is on this weekend.
Find a Festival →Rainy-Day & Snow-Day Kid Activity Picker
School is closed and the sky is doing something. Set an age band, say what the weather is, and get one place to take them — every pick drawn from our own family guides.
Find Something →Sunday Activity Generator
Sunday is a different city here. Say who is going and what you feel like, and get one thing that is actually open — couples, families, solo residents and weekend visitors.
Plan a Sunday →The Utah Valley Bucket List
One hundred things to do here, every one of them drawn from a guide we already publish. Tick them off as you go — your progress stays in your own browser, and the list is shareable.
Start Ticking →Youth Sports Registration Calendar
The window closes months before the season starts — baseball in February, football in spring. Filter by sport, city and age to see what is open now and what to watch for next.
Check the Windows →Trick-or-Treat & Trunk-or-Treat Finder
No Utah County city sets trick-or-treat hours, so this does not print a table of invented ones. It shows what each of 19 cities actually publishes, whether this year's date is confirmed or still unannounced, and the neighborhood window the street actually keeps.
Find Your City →Fireworks & Parade Finder
13 Fourth of July and Pioneer Day shows and parades in 7 Utah County cities, with the time each one ran, where people watch, Utah's legal fireworks hours and 13 city restricted-zone entries. 2027 dates are marked not yet announced.
Find a Show →Day-Trip Picker
Half a day, a full day or a weekend; what you like; the season; whether kids are coming. 77 trips from Provo come back nearest first, each with the drive time and season its own guide states, and a label wherever a guide does not say.
Pick a Trip →FHE Idea Generator
Who is coming, what you can spend, indoors or out, a lesson theme and the month. One family home evening idea, a treat and a place, picked from 96 ideas in our home evening guides, with the Monday hours and age rules those guides confirmed.
Plan Monday →Craft Night Planner
How many people, how skilled, how much money and how long. 17 craft nights from our guides, each with the supplies it names, the 9 Utah Valley stores that stock them since JOANN closed, a room to book, and the Church rules for a ward activity.
Plan a Craft Night →Baby's First Year in Utah Valley
Enter the birth or due date and get 36 things to do, in order by your baby's age: the insurance window, WIC clinics, the free car seat check, a baby storytime at your library, the first winter's air plan. Ticks stay in your browser.
Start the Checklist →Wedding Date Finder
Pick a month and see, Saturday by Saturday, which of Utah County's six temples have published a closure, plus general conference, BYU home games, Utah holidays under the 2027 law and the Sunday and Monday rules.
Check a Date →Sealing-Day Planner
Enter your temple, date and the times the temple gives you. Get the day in order: the exit, photos on the grounds, the walk or drive to lunch, the afternoon gap and the reception, with what each group needs to know.
Plan the Day →Guest-List and Reception Planner
One event or two, how long the open-house line takes, how many guests are in the room at once against published venue capacities, and how many servings of cake to order, from your own numbers.
Do the Math →Cheap Family Dinner Planner
Kids-eat-free deals change franchise by franchise, so instead of a grid that would be wrong by Tuesday: the call script, the free summer meal program, and the options that are cheap every week of the year.
Plan Dinner →Trail Finder
124 Utah Valley trails filtered by how hard, how far, how much climbing, whether the dog comes and whether the road is even open. Where our sources disagree on a distance the card carries the spread rather than one invented number.
Find a Trail →Ski-Day Picker
Where you are starting, which pass you hold, who is skiing and how long you have — the mountains that actually fit, in drive order, each linked to its own snow report. We publish no snow data of our own.
Pick a Mountain →Canyon & Road Status Board
Seasonal patterns and where to check live status for the Alpine Loop, Nebo Loop, Provo Canyon, American Fork Canyon, Mirror Lake Highway, Squaw Peak Road and Guardsman Pass. Who owns each gate and which official page has today's answer; we never post a status of our own.
See the Board →Fishing Stocking & Conditions Board
22 ponds, reservoirs and rivers near Provo: species and season from our fishing guides, the exact name each water carries in DWR's stocking report, and where DWR posts its fishing report. No stocking dates copied, so none go stale.
Find a Water →Commute Cost Calculator
Drive, carpool or FrontRunner from Provo, Orem or the south county to Lehi, Draper or Salt Lake — priced by the month from the IRS mileage rate and UTA's own fare rule, with the caps applied.
Run the Numbers →Christmas Lights Route Planner
The displays run from Saratoga Springs to Payson, and the usual mistake is geographic. Say where you are starting and how long you have, and get the stops in driving order — with the ticketed and Sunday-closed ones handled.
Plan the Route →Date Night Generator
Budget, season and mood in, one date idea out — every pick drawn from our own Provo and Utah Valley date guides, with a Sunday switch for the things that close.
Pick a Date →Ward & Meetinghouse Finder
Pick your Utah Valley city and go straight to the Church's official locality page for its wards and meetinghouses, with a plain explanation of how the meetinghouse locator works.
Find a Ward →Temple Finder
18 temples in and around Utah County, nearest first from BYU, UVU or your location, with each one's official status, address, clothing rental and published closure dates.
Find a Temple →Singles Activity Finder
This month's LDS singles dances, firesides and temple nights, the weekly YSA groups, the conferences and the mid-singles wards, filtered by age band, city and this weekend.
See This Month →Volunteer Matcher
Match local service to the youngest person coming, one-time or weekly, the cause, the city and the size of your group, with every age rule taken from our volunteering guides.
Find a Shift →Adult Rec League Finder
Adult softball, basketball, volleyball, pickleball and more from five city recreation departments, with posted fees and whether registration is open today.
Find a League →What's Open Right Now
It's Sunday. Or it's 10 PM. Or both. This tool shows you which Provo restaurants are actually serving food right now — filtered by cuisine and sorted by closing time.
See What's Open →Provo vs. Other Cities
Thinking about moving to Provo — or from Provo? Compare cost of living, weather, outdoor access, food scene, and quality of life side-by-side with 12 popular comparison cities.
Compare Cities →Apartment Finder
Tell us who you are, your budget, and what matters most — we'll show you the best Provo neighborhoods and apartment complexes to look at, including BYU-approved options for students.
Find an Apartment →Why We Build These Tools
Every tool on this page exists because we kept hearing the same questions from people moving to Provo, current residents, and students navigating their first year. National tools like NerdWallet or Zillow give you generic data — ours are built with Provo-specific knowledge, local pricing, and the quirks that only locals know about (like how many restaurants close on Sundays, or how rent varies dramatically between neighborhoods just a mile apart).
All tools are free, work on mobile, and don't require any sign-up or personal information. If you have an idea for a tool that would help with Provo life, let us know.
Browse by Hub
Every guide on the site sits in exactly one hub. If a tool got you part of the way, the hub behind it has the written version:
- Outdoors — trails, canyons, the lake and the reservoirs.
- Salt Lake & Beyond — day trips and nearby cities, timed from Provo.
- Winter — Sundance and the resorts, the pass math, learning to ski.
- Families — childcare, the youth-sports calendar, lessons and classes.
- Sports — BYU game days, rec leagues and the race calendar.
- Health — networks, finding a doctor, urgent care versus the ER.
- Holidays — the October circuit, the December season, what is open.
- History — the people, the disasters and the company stories.
- Singles & Dating — the tiers, and where to actually go.
- Festivals & Celebrations — the annual calendar, with the finder.
City Front Doors
The same guides cut by place. Each front door indexes everything this site has published about one city, plus its school district, what is on there, and anything the openings tracker has recorded.
- Provo — Central valley.
- Orem — North valley.
- Lehi — North valley.
- American Fork — North valley.
- Pleasant Grove — North valley.
- Lindon — North valley.
- Vineyard — North valley.
- Springville — South valley.
- Spanish Fork — South valley.
- Payson — South valley.
- Saratoga Springs — West side.
- Eagle Mountain — West side.
- The North Bench — North valley.
- The South Valley — South valley.
Related Guides
- The Complete Guide to Moving to Provo — Pair the neighborhood quiz and cost calculator with this comprehensive moving guide.
- 30 Best Restaurants in Provo — Our curated picks beyond what the restaurant finder shows.
- Cost of Living in Provo (2026) — Detailed breakdown behind the calculator data.
- Provo Neighborhoods Guide — Deep dives on every neighborhood the quiz recommends.