Recreation and Leisure
Provo is a city that encourages physical activity. It’s the home to 10 golf courses, 37 public tennis courts, 32 public parks, five softball complexes and two ice rinks.
The Provo Mormon Temple (2200 North Temple Drive) that looks over the city is always a nice place to visit. The BYU Earth Science Museum on the BYU campus features good dinosaur exhibits and exhibits of early mammals. Visitors can even watch researchers prepare bones for display.
Science lovers can also visit the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum on the BYU campus. Here visitors see displays of mounted animals, movies, talks and presentations of dioramas.
BYU also has a Museum of Peoples and Cultures with collections as old as 50,000 years, and the interactive museum of art that frequently hosts international exhibitions.
Hiking, camping, fishing, boating, biking, swimming, skiing and hunting are also popular pastimes at places like the canyons of Wasatch Range (on Highways 92 and 89), Mount Nebo (accessible from Interstate 15), the Timpangos Cave National Monument, Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park, Utah Lake Stage Park, and the Uinta National Forest.
Sports fans can enjoy watching amateur sports at the Brigham Young University as the teams play football, volleyball, basketball and baseball. BYU teams regularly rank top in the Western Atlantic Conference.
Fast Facts
- Provo is 40.24 degrees north of the equator.
- According to Forbes Magazine, the city was 2004’s sixth best place to live in the United States.
- The city library has 178,701 books.
- Provo is 4,549 feet above sea level.
- Brett Keisel, 2005 NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was born in Provo.
- Average summer temperature is 75°F in the summer and 30°F in the winter.
- Provo is sunny more than 60 percent of the time from mid-February to the beginning of November.
- Provo takes up 39.6 square miles.
- Average annual precipitation is 20.13 inches of rain and 60.40 inches of snow each year.