Utah Valley Summer Bucket List

Explore Utah Valley is hosting a super fun summer bucket list challenge. The challenge encourages you to visit lots of attractions and restaurants in Utah County to earn prizes. We loved exploring Utah County and finding new places that even we hadn’t visited! We are excited to share with you more about the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List.

Utah Valley has a lot of amazing places to explore. Sundance is one of those spots.

How it Works

Participating in the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List is easy. You need to sign up on the Explore Utah Valley website. Sign up here. You can use your email or your Google Account, and you can sign up on a computer or your phone, but you will need to use your phone for check-ins, so it might be easier to just sign-up on your phone to start.

This is where you sign-up on Explore Utah Valley.

Once you are signed-up, you can start exploring all of the different locations on the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List. I like to look at the spots on the map, but there is a list, too. When I look at the map, then I can see where there are a bunch of pins together and plan a day trip. I also like to click on the top where it has the 5 categories (museums, family fun, outdoors, restaurants, and festivals). This narrows down the locations by that category so that I can see the list of places better.

Change the category up at the top to see locations by type of outing.

Every time you visit a location, you need to check in while you are there. You find the venue you are visiting on the bucket list website, and click “check in.” Then you upload a photo to show you are there, and once you do, you’ll earn rewards. There are prizes for different levels of rewards. All prizes are picked up at the Visitor Center located at 220 West Center Street in Provo. Open Mon-Fri 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.

You need to check in when you visit different locations like the Butterfly Biosphere.

Prizes

Adventure Seeker: Check-in at 5 places. Prize: Startup Candy Sucker & choice of Postcard, magnet or sticker sheet
Explorer Check-in 10 places. Prize: Free tickets to Thanksgiving Point (2tickets) or Splash Summit (2 tickets) + other local attraction vouchers
Trailblazer: TWO GRAND PRIZE WINNER Prize: Ultimate Activity Package of $500 value (entered to win)
- The first winner is the person who ends at the top of the leaderboard on July 31st at 11:59 pm & the second winner is someone from the Trailblazer raffle.

We chose the Bridal Veil Falls postcard, but there are a huge variety of options of stickers and postcards.

Bucket List Locations

We had a really fun time checking items off the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List last year, and we are excited to explore some new spots in 2024! Many of our favorite Utah County locations are on this list such as Butterfly Biosphere, Adventure Heights All Abilities Park, Springville Art Museum, Splash Summit, and lots more. I like that they have included plenty of outdoor adventures like visiting a pond, having a picnic, and going to a lake. They also have the City Festivals as a check-in, and we love all the fun at the local city festivals. Don’t forget to check out the fun restaurants on the challenge, too.

One of the challenges is to roll down the hill at Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point.

A Few Tips

When you sign up, it will ask you if you’d like to add the link to your Home Screen. I recommend this because it makes it super easy to find the link for the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List. Then you just click the icon when you need to check-in. I also suggest spending a few minutes exploring the website/app, as it took me a bit to figure out how to see all of the venues on the list.

Our second tip is to plan your adventures in one area and try to hit as many as the spots as you can. In 2024, we went to the BYU Creamery, BYU Museum of Peoples & Culture, and Provo Pioneer Village, earning us 3 stops. Later, we realized that we should have stopped at one of the murals in Provo, too. These are all in the Provo area, and we spent an entire morning hanging out. There is a map on the app that groups the challenges by location.

Roots of Knowledge is on the bucket list, and it is one of our favorite places in Utah Valley.

Join the Bucket List

If you are adventuring in Utah County, then you definitely need to join the Utah Valley Summer Bucket List challenge. Fill your day with lots of exciting spots to visit, and earn free prizes while you are having fun. This online bucket list runs through August 10, so you have plenty of time this summer to check things off the bucket list and earn some prizes. We are already making plans to earn those first 5 places because we want to be an Adventure Seeker.