Recreation Services

2008 Fall/Winter Activity Guide Now Available!

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(To register for activities, please click on the Forms link under "Sections" on this page)

• Park & Bike Path Map
•  Mingo Gym Schedule 

General Information - Department of Parks & Recreation

Division of Recreation Services

The philosophy of the Recreation Services division is to develop and implement programs and activities and provide programs in partnership with other groups and organizations.  We also strive to provide citizens with information about other leisure services in the community.  The City is responsible for the development, programming, and maintenance of an extensive and growing park system with a wide variety of facility types.  In addition to the parks it owns and manages, the City also administers recreation programs at several public school sites.

Division of Grounds and Facilities

The department maintains all city parks, street trees, and holiday decorations.  The crew manages 300 acres of open space and parkland, including  nineteen neighborhood parks, three community parks, one nature walk, and a nine-hole golf course.  Grounds and Facilities staff also mows more than 25 miles of right-of-way throughout the city and will routinely police the major highways for litter and apply herbicide to control weeds along guardrails, speed limit and directional signage. Should one observe a broken piece of equipment or an unsafe condition in one of our parks, please bring this to our attention immediately.

"We do not cease playing because we are old;

we grow old because we cease playing."  Joseph Lee