Weddings
A ceremony in the Poplar, an open house in the ballroom, the Bridal Suite upstairs and the Birch Courtyard on the river. Peak season runs June through September, and it books in January.
Logan, Utah | On The Logan River
Eleven Rooms, Every One Named For A Tree
Thirteen spaces and 32,000 square feet at the south end of Logan, on the river.
The Grove
The Naming System Was Already Here
Cache Valley's largest event center sits at the south end of Logan with the Bear River Range on one side and the Wellsvilles on the other, and the Logan River running past the courtyard. Inside it, a naming system nobody has ever drawn.
Maple, Willow, Poplar, Cherry, Cottonwood, Juniper, Elm, Mahogany, Redwood, Birch, Aspen. Every room in this building is named for a tree, and no one has ever drawn one. So we drew all eleven. The marks are the wayfinding, the capacity chart, the floor-plan key and the identity at once, and they cost nothing to adopt.
- Maple
- Willow
- Poplar
- Cherry
- Cottonwood
- Juniper
- Elm
- Mahogany
- Redwood
- Birch
- Aspen
- Named Spaces
- 13Nine indoor rooms, two courtyards, the Grand Reception Hall and the Bridal Suite.
- Published Total
- 32,000Square feet, as the property states it on its own Facilities and About pages.
- Largest Published Capacity
- 304Mahogany-Redwood combined, set with banquet round tables.
- Leaf Marks
- 11One per tree, drawn on a 24 pixel grid and used everywhere the room is named.
Capacity
Every Published Capacity, On One Page
The property publishes capacities for banquet round tables only, plus one seminar figure for the Maple. There is no theater, classroom, reception or U-shape number anywhere, and no capacity chart at all. Here is the whole of what is published, in order.
- Mahogany-RedwoodBanquet Rounds304
- Cottonwood-Juniper-ElmBanquet Rounds160
- MahoganyBanquet Rounds128
- RedwoodBanquet Rounds128
- MapleMeeting, Seminar Or Workshop100
- WillowBanquet Rounds96
- CottonwoodBanquet Rounds48
- JuniperBanquet Rounds48
- ElmBanquet Rounds48
- PoplarBanquet Rounds40
- CherryBanquet Rounds24
Four more spaces carry no published capacity: the Grand Reception Hall, the Bridal Suite, the Birch Courtyard and the Aspen Courtyard. They are listed on the Spaces page rather than given a number nobody published.
What The Building Is Asked To Do
Meetings
The Maple at 1,146 square feet, three breakouts on airwalls with three screens, a boardroom in the Cherry, and a general session for 304. Plus Summer Citizens, who are here all summer.
Catering
Catering here is exclusive and in house, cooked by the attached Elements Restaurant. Every per person price the property publishes for 2026 and 2027 is on the page.
The Birch Courtyard: stamped paving, the gazebo, tulip beds, and benches along the Logan River. The outdoor season here runs late May to late September.
The Valley
Where This Actually Is
Logan sits on the east bench of Cache Valley, about 4,700 feet up, on the old bed of Lake Bonneville. The Bear River Range is the east wall, close to twenty miles wide and averaging well over 8,000 feet, with Naomi Peak at 9,979 the high point. The Wellsvilles are the west wall, one of the narrowest and steepest-rising ranges in the country, topped by Box Elder Peak at 9,372 feet.
The Logan River rises in those mountains in Idaho and comes down through Logan Canyon, 41 miles of scenic byway that ends at Bear Lake. The limestone up there drinks the snowmelt and gives it back as springs, which is why the river runs cold in August. It runs past the courtyard here.
This is dairy country at industrial scale, not artisanal charm. Gossner Foods, in Logan, takes in about three million pounds of milk a day.
The Year
The Calendar Here Is The University's
Utah State enrolls 29,831 students, a little over 20,000 of them on the Logan campus. The town moves with them. Fall classes begin 31 August 2026 and the single largest surge of the year comes with move-in. Homecoming is mid-October, with the parade down Main Street on the Saturday morning. Finals run 14 to 18 December and then the town empties for a month.
Spring semester opens 11 January 2027, spring break is 8 to 12 March, and commencement lands 5 to 7 May, the highest-demand weekend of the first half of the year. Then the students go and the Summer Citizens arrive.
Weddings peak June through September, heaviest in July and August, and they are booked in January, February and March. Late September into October is the other good window, because that is when the canyon maples turn.
Come Stand In The Room
Nothing on this page is a substitute for standing in the Mahogany with the airwall back. The office is open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm.
Address
615 Riverwoods Parkway
Logan, UT 84321
Lodging On The Campus
SpringHill Suites by Marriott is directly connected to the conference center. TownePlace Suites, the only extended stay hotel in Cache Valley, is on the same campus.