Recreational/Leisure/Arts Activities & Instruction

• Home Based Parenting Education
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
• Parent/Child Activity Groups
• Early Literacy Development Programs
• Parent Support Groups

The Ogden Nature Center is a nature preserve and education center. There are walking trails, picnic areas, tree houses, and bird exhibits. The Ogden Nature Center offers a wide variety of classes & workshops for all ages including art, photography, birding, wildlife in Utah, outdoor recreation, conservation, sustainability, summer camps and more.

COVID-19 UPDATE: All Ogden Nature Center trails and buildings temporarily closed. Online wildlife programming available to view from home. Some volunteer projects still operating, contact volunteer@ogdennaturecenter.org for details.

• Community/Nature Area Cleanup/Enhancement Projects
• Community Based Preschools
• Recreational Activities Volunteer Opportunities
• Summer Camps
• Children's Museums
• Youth Enrichment Programs

• Disability Related Sports
• Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Joni Wilson, Dancers with Disabilities Classes (with live accompaniment)

Tanner Dance is a Department of Services for People with Disabilities provider.

Promotes cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Collective provides refurbished bicycles, do-it-yourself tools & workshops, educational programs, and collects donated bikes for the community, focusing on children and lower income households. Visit the Bicycle Collective's social media on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube for educational content. Newsletter available via email.

COVID-19 Update: Many Bicycle Collective programs and services may have been suspended due to COVID-19. Call or visit website for hours and availability.

• Recreational Activities Volunteer Opportunities
• Sports Equipment Donation Programs
• Court Community Service Sites
• Do It Yourself Bicycle Repair Instruction
• Bicycle Repair
• Bicycle Safety Education

M 3:30 - 5:30 Youth Open Shop

Locations in Ogden, St. George, Provo

Offers library services to the community of Spanish Fork.

• Children's Library Services
• Parent/Child Activity Groups
• Public Internet Access Sites
• Public Access Computers/Tools
• Public Libraries

• Children's Museums

Provides programs for youth in the community ages 5-18, by creating a safe space to engage in confidence-building and highly creative activities in the studio, in the classroom, and out in the community.

Free museum that exhibits more than 90 military aircraft, missiles, and aerospace vehicles on the grounds and inside the Major General Rex A Hadley Gallery and the Lindquist Stewart Fighter Gallery. Collection also includes a wide variety of ordnance and munitions, an assortment of aerospace ground equipment, military vehicles, uniforms, and thousands of other historical artifacts.

COVID-19 Update: New, temporary operating hours will be W - Sa 10 am - 4 pm.

• Court Community Service Sites
• Aviation Museums

• Residential Camps

Constructs and protects hiking trails, mountain biking trails, and pathways for horseback riders, cross-country skiers, snow-shoers, and other non-motorized trail users. Activities to encourage community to get outside. Committed to the idea that non-motorized network of public pathways significantly contributes to our community's economic vitality and quality of life.

Provides a parent-to-parent support group that supports parents and families of individuals with special needs through interaction, education, and resources.

COVID-19 UPDATE: All services moved to phone calls, virtual visits, or Facebook support groups. Fax unavailable.

• Home Based Parenting Education
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Disability Related Parenting Programs
• Social Skills Training
• Parent/Child Activity Groups

• Gardening/Landscaping Instruction
• Botanical Gardens/Arboreta

Provides afterschool, summer, and weekend programs that build life
skills through academics, arts, community, leadership, and health and wellness

Services Include:

• Tutoring & Reading Club
• Kid’s Café meals
• Dance & Theatre
• Yoga
• Art
• Interpersonal & Life Skills
• Youth Leadership
• Swimming Lessons
• Computer Lab
• Outdoor Trips

Utah's Hogle Zoo nurtures respect and appreciation for the natural world by providing diverse educational, recreational, and conservation opportunities.

• Zoos/Wildlife Parks
• Animal Services Volunteer Opportunities
• Audio Description Services

Utah’s Hogle Zoo offers classes for students with special needs. We offer onsite programs for field trips (90 minutes), outreach programs direct to your classroom (60 minutes), and preschool/early intervention classes. Classes cover habitats, lifecycles, classification, and adaptations.

• Children's Museums

• Parent Support Groups
• Children's Play Groups
• Breastfeeding Support Programs
• Parent/Child Activity Groups

Houses collections of living aquatic plants and animals including fish, shellfish, shore birds and other species for the purposes of conservation, research, education, and public viewing.

COVID-19 Update: Face masks are required inside the Aquarium per the Salt Lake County mandate. Visit website for additional FAQs and COVID-19 requirements.

• Aquariums
• Environment Volunteer Opportunities

Provides yoga classes for autism and other special needs. Workshops and training are offered for teachers, parents and caregivers who would like to bring the practice of yoga into their homes, classrooms, and communities. Home based services available around the Salt Lake Valley.

Offers multiple programs for people with disabilities. Offers dance classes for all ages, and programming for adults with disabilities.

Classes are offered on the University of Utah campus and in satellite locations in Brigham City, Ogden, Park City, and South Jordan.

Provides bicycle maintenance and repair training and classes for community members to learn to fix their own bicycles.

• Do It Yourself Bicycle Repair Instruction
• Sports Equipment Donation Programs

M 2 - 5 pm Youth Open Shop

• Summer Camps
• Self Defense Training
• Martial Arts

• Self Defense Training
• Summer Camps
• Martial Arts

Second location in Draper

• Recreational Activities Volunteer Opportunities
• Do It Yourself Bicycle Repair Instruction
• Court Community Service Sites
• Bicycle Donation Programs

Day and overnight camps. North Camp utilizes Sugarhouse and Sunnyside Parks and Salt Lake Arts Academy. South Camp drop-offs include Beehive Academy, Butler, South Jordan and Murray Parks. Days include arts/crafts and activity, often bused to a pool or venue. Ratio staff to kids is 1:10. Many transitions throughout the day. Travel Camp (ages 6-16 depending on week) requires drop-off/ pick-up at Murray Park.

Offers art-making opportunities to individuals with disabilities. Provides mentorship and assistive art making devices that ennoble people to higher levels of self-expression and communication.

Partners with the Autism Society to offer unique sensory friendly movie showings where we turn the lights up, and turn the sound down. Our Sensory Friendly Film program is available on the second and fourth Saturday (family-friendly) and Wednesday evenings (mature audiences) of every month.

Provides classes based in musical exploration. Kindermusik focuses on these developmental areas: Language, vocal, cognitive, gross motor, fine motor, social emotional, and musical development.

Online Locator: Find a Kindermusik class near you.

National internet-based locator