Parks Projects

Provo Parks and Recreation is working with the Federal June Sucker Recovery/ Provo River Delta Restoration Project on a design of a park that may serve as an entry to the new river delta and associated wetlands.

This new “Delta Gateway Park” is designed as a neighborhood park and a trail head park featuring access to the Provo River and provides trail connections to the Provo River Trail, existing trail to leading to Utah Lake and the new Provo River delta trails.  

Provo City has a higher demand for community recreation field use than current field inventory allows. The annual community need is demonstrated by the 330+ local teams that are currently limited to use the 11 existing sports fields in Provo. The Epic Sports Park facility is created to meet the current and future demand for high quality sports fields and to benefit Utah County from the regional sports travel tourism of the large capacity facility.

 In 2019 Provo Parks & Recreation acquired the site comprising of 100 acres of farmland through a Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund conversion process that requires preservation of recreational open space.  The site is in southwest Provo at 2500 W Lakeview Parkway, immediately northeast of the new Provo Airport.

Project Overview

Designs for site development include:

• 21 full-size rectangular natural turfgrass sports fields.
• An extensive recreational perimeter pathway system with multiple loops.
• 4 public restrooms buildings distributed throughout the park.
• Sports turf, landscaping and trees managed with water conservative landscape design.
• Playgrounds and youth sports play equipment.
• Parking areas, roadways and rotary intersections that will provide exceptional event traffic flow.
• 45 court pickleball court complex – large enough for community and regional tournament play.

The Epic Sports Park will not only provide for today’s local sports recreation needs and regionally hosted events are projected to significantly impact the local economy with over $30M annually in local travel tourism spending.  The success of this project is the result of support from Utah County and the State of Utah, pursuing unique opportunities, developing beneficial partnerships, and innovative project management.

Sustainability

Sustainability has been an important objective in the design and operation of the Epic Sports Park.  Provo Parks & Recreation has consulted with the industry experts and renowned sports field consultants to design and build a sustainable facility. Most quality natural surface turfgrass sports fields are now developed with sand-based soils. This is a proven construction method that promotes resiliency, drainage, aeration, safety, damage resiliency, density, and safe playing surfaces. 

Water use at The Epic Sports Park will be managed by industry qualitied turf managers with state-of-the-art control technology called WeatherTRAK that monitors and replaces only the actual water that is used by the turf through evapotranspiration. The site will also include soil moisture sensors that dial in irrigation so there is no water wasted. 

65,000 square feet of low water use landscaping will be installed at The Epic Sports Park, including the planting of 555 new trees. Ribbon curbing will be installed to facilitate low impact drainage in the parking lot areas. 

Timeline for Completion

The first 15 fields will be completed by Fall 2024.

The remaining 6 fields and Pickleball facility will be completed Fall 2026.