Oakley is located 45 miles (72 km) east of Salt Lake City on SR-32, in the Kamas Valley.

Scenic route Weber Canyon Road follows the Weber River to its headwaters; it also follows the Smith and Morehouse Creek to its reservoir in its own scenic canyon 15 miles (24 km) from Oakley.

The towns of Marion, Kamas, and Peoa are its neighbors, and the Weber River flows nearby.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16 km2), all land.

A historical monument erected in 1939 across the street from the current town hall by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, honors the habitation of the Utes.

The Weber River Indian Trail skirted the east foothills to Oakley Canyon, crossed the river at the Old Kamas Ford, 3 1/2 miles east of here, running thence to Henry's Fork, and to Brush Creek, in the eastern Uinta Mountains.

In addition, it is a base for recreational activities, which abound—hiking, fishing, horseback riding, camping, hunting, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing—all within a very short distance from town.

This was to serve us but a short time, as my father had already contracted with John Salmon to build us a new eight-room concrete block house.

Measured by the standards of that day, it was a rather commodious home-- five rather large rooms downstairs and three upstairs.

We were walking along a trail through the trees when suddenly just ahead there stood a grizzly bear, standing on its hind legs and in no friendly mood.

My father was a farmer, but he was in demand for timber, road contract work, building irrigation systems, bridges.

My father’s first counselor, Brother Rasmusen, baptized me in the Weber River and I was confirmed the next Sunday.

For a time, the store served as the local post office, but increased demand from summer homes up Weber Canyon led the federal government in 1985 to build the present post-office building across the street from the store.

[9] In 1998, Mayor Doug Evans and the town of Oakley discovered an underground aquifer containing water that had not seen the surface in at least 18,000 years, according to carbon testing.

Found nearly 1900 feet below the surface in a layer of Mississippian limestone, the water proved among the purest ever tested, free of tritium and any other contamination from the nuclear age.

Local businessmen have also bought the rights to bottle the water and sell it under different labels.

[10] Oakley is most famous for its annual rodeo, held each year on the Fourth of July weekend.

Oakley has two eating establishments, the locally owned Polar King and the Road Island Diner, a former train car made into a restaurant that is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.