Springdale

Located just outside of Zion National Park, Springdale offers countless opportunities for outdoor physical exercise. It promotes active transportation through bike lanes, a walkable downtown, and a high degree of connectivity between its numerous hiking and biking trails. The town also supports the Zion Canyon Medical Clinic by allowing the clinic to operate on its land rent-free and regularly organizes vaccine shootouts and blood drives for residents and visitors. To promote healthy eating, the town features a community garden that allows residents with minimal space to rent a plot and grow their own produce.

HEALTH STRATEGIES

Collaboration 

• A relationship with the local health department
• Health-related objectives in our general plan

Access to Healthy Food 

• A community garden

Active Living 

• A written guideline that promotes active transportation/physical activity for city employees (e.g. promoting walking
• meetings, providing bike racks, paying for transit passes, release time for physical activity).
• Free and/or low-cost community sports/fitness programs for adults and children
• Connected walking and biking trails
• Wayfinding signage that promotes active transportation

Mental Health 

• Offered Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) trainings

2025 Redesignation:

To be redesignated in Spring 2025, the Town of Springdale partnered with the Paiute Indian Tribe to construct several miles of natural surface recreation trails. The town also worked to improve access to healthy food for residents by waiving all fees for their Community Garden. To safeguard mental health, Springdale made gun locks and Naloxone available free of charge and continues to offer free QPR suicide prevention trainings for the public.

HEALTH STRATEGIES

ACtive Living

• Constructed several miles of natural-surface rec trails in partnership with the Paiute Indian Tribe 

AcCESS To Healthy Food

• The town took ownership of the local community garden, eliminated user fees, and provides upkeep and maintenance

Mental Health

• Offers gunlocks, naloxone, and QPR suicide prevention trainings free to the public