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