Experiences
Park Silly Sunday Market: A Local Guide to Main Street Sundays
Lower Main Street · Summer Sundays · Street closed, town open
Dani · 4 min read
One day a week in summer, Park City closes Main Street to cars and hands it to makers, farmers, buskers, and a mimosa bar. It is the least formal thing this town does and the most revealing.
Why you should go
Park Silly Sunday Market is an open air street market and eco fair that takes over lower Main Street on summer Sundays. The road closes, the booths go up, and the town shows you a version of itself that no resort brochure includes.
It is part farmers market, part artisan fair, part street party. Local growers, Utah makers, food vendors, live music on the street, a beer and mimosa garden, and a genuine cross section of the people who live here year round rather than the people visiting for the weekend.
For anyone considering a home in Park City, this is the most useful two hours you can spend. Buyers spend months studying comparables and then decide on a place because of a Sunday morning like this one.
The insider details
- Location
- Lower Historic Main Street, Park City, UT 84060
- Website
- parksillysundaymarket.com
- Season
- Summer Sundays, typically June through September. Confirm the current schedule before planning
- Format
- Open air street market and eco fair with makers, growers, food, live music, and a beverage garden
- Getting there
- Free transit or the China Bridge garage. Main Street itself is closed to vehicles
- Price / Vibe
- Free to attend · lively · local · dog friendly · family friendly
When to go
- Best window: before eleven in the morning, when the produce is still full and the street is still walkable.
- Best social window: early afternoon, when the music is up and the beverage garden fills.
- Best with children: early, then leave before the midday crush rather than after it.
- Best month: late June and September, warm days without the peak visitor volume.
- Take transit. Circling Old Town for parking on a market Sunday is a choice, not a requirement.
How to do it
- If you do one thing
- Walk the full length once without buying, then go back for the two booths you cannot stop thinking about
- Best purchase
- Utah grown produce and something handmade you can carry home
- Best breakfast
- A Main Street patio first, market second
- Best pairing
- Market in the morning, gallery browsing in the afternoon, dinner at the top of Main
- Best for buyers
- Use it as a neighborhood test. Ask five vendors where they live and why
The Cozy Score
- Character9.4
- Exclusivity5.5
- Atmosphere9.7
- Local cred9.8
- Family factor9.3
- Difficulty getting in1.0
Local intel
- Dates and hours shift year to year. Always confirm the current season before you build a weekend around it.
- The market is the fastest introduction to the year round community that visitors otherwise never meet.
- Old Town owners walk to this. Everyone else parks, and the difference shapes how often you actually go.
- Vendors are a superb source of contractor and maker recommendations for new owners.
- Bring a bag and cash. Some of the best booths are the smallest ones.
The look of the day
