Bountiful Veterans Park

09/28/2026

06/28/2026

American Legion Post 79 and the Veterans Park Foundation hosted Patriot Riders es**rting an Alaska Airlines Fallen Soldier Cart that will be permanently stationed at the Salt Lake City Airport. The Cart was being transported from the Washington state to the Salt Lake City Airport. Clearfield and Layton City police along with the Davis County Sheriff's Department es**rted the group through Davis County.

When a flag-draped casket is flown on Alaska Airlines, it is given priority and is the first item unloaded from the plane, placed carefully onto a Fallen Soldier Cart. Guests on board are asked to wait to deplane until the fallen service member’s es**rt or family have exited the aircraft. Many guests choose to remain seated until the casket is removed, out of respect, though it is not required. Meanwhile ramp agents and maintenance technicians stand at attention on the tarmac to honor the fallen.

06/24/2026

Drop by the Bountiful Veterans Park every Wednesday evening anytime between 18:00 (6 pm) and dusk to visit with local vets. The Park is located at 750 S 100 East (next to the Bountiful Library and Bountiful City Hall).

Veterans from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, and the War on Terror will share their personal experiences, answer your questions, and brief you on the Walls which have the names of over 7,000 veterans from South Davis County engraved on them.

This is an informal, family-friendly event for everyone - individuals, families, youth groups, veterans, etc.

06/22/2026

We continue to receive names for engraving on the Walls in the Bountiful Veterans Park. A recent submission was for a veteran who served in the Mormon Battalion during the Mexican American War (1846-48). He joins four other's who also served in the Battalion during that conflict and whose names are already on the Walls.

At the age of twenty-nine, George Washington Taggart enlisted in the Company B of the Mormon Battalion, one of five hundred men who set out between July 16-22, 1846 to commence an unparalleled march of two thousand miles on foot through the barren deserts and across the mountains of the southwest to California. George enlisted as a musician playing a fife that he made himself. The Battalion suffered from lack of water until their tonques would swell. George would walk the mules so they might live, until his feet would bleed. Of the original five hundred men only 335 reached California.

Taggart resided in Bountiful for several years when he was hired by Heber C. Kimball to build the grist mill on Mill stream, just south of Bountiful High School on Orchard Drive.

05/27/2026

Jon Atkin, a law enforcement and military officer, and his family attended the Park's Veterans Day program. Jon is currently running for Davis County Sheriff and has stopped by the Park numerous times.

05/25/2026

Here is the 2026 Bountiful Veterans Park Memorial Day Program - Monday, May 25 at 11 am, at the Bountiful Veterans Park..

05/25/2026

The names of an additional 189 individuals who have served or are serving in the active forces, the reserves or the national guard and who have resided in Bountiful, Centerville, North Salt Lake, Woods Cross or West Bountiful sometime during their lives were engraved on Walls 4A and 4B on Thursday, May 21.

The photos show the template that is applied to the wall with the names, the sandblasting of the names into the wall and the removal of the template once the engraved names have been spray painted white.

05/25/2026

Getting ready for the Memorial Day Program tomorrow at Bountiful Veterans Park! Come join us at 11 am🇺🇸 See you soon!

04/21/2026

We plan on adding 189 names to Walls 4A and 4B by Memorial Day, 2026. If you submitted a name for engraving by Valentines Day 2026, it should be on the Wall at that time.

You can now submit names for engraving next year (May 2027).

If you have submitted a name for engraving either in 2026 or 2027, you can check it out by copying this link and pasting it into your browser. https://bountifulveteranspark.org/names/