City's First Dedicated Pickleball Complex Opens For Play!

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City's First Dedicated Pickleball Complex Opens For Play!
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City’s first dedicated pickleball complex opens for play!
12 pickleball courts part of effort to repurpose underutilized facilities across O‘ahu 

Pickleball players enjoying the new pickleball complex promptly after blessing the newly repurposed courts at Ke‘ehi Lagoon Beach Park

O‘AHU – Following a blessing at Ke‘ehi Lagoon Beach Park today, the Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation’s (DPR) opened its first dedicated pickleball complex for public play!

12 new pickleball courts, complete with lines and nets, were repurposed from four underutilized tennis courts as part of a larger DPR effort to accommodate the increasing amount of players who enjoy the fastest growing sport in the country.

“It is very rewarding to see our outdoor courts given new life, and for pickleball players around the island to enjoy more dedicated facilities,” said DPR Director Laura H. Thielen. “Our existing inventory of mostly mixed-use pickleball courts are very popular, so we anticipate these new, dedicated courts to be well used. Mahalo to our DPR staff and the repurposing contractor, All Courts, for completing this conversion so quickly while continuing additional court resurfacing projects. We look forward to progressing this effort, and making better use of our existing facilities to accommodate a growing diversity of park users across O‘ahu.”

These court conversions, along with proposed revisions to the rules governing all City park courts, intend to strike a balance amongst the various groups and organizations which utilize these public facilities. We encourage everyone to take part in the online survey to gather input on our draft court rules through next Friday, July 21. You can access the survey by following this link (bit.ly/OutdoorCourtSurvey) with the draft rules available at bit.ly/DraftCourtRules

Announced on March 2, DPR intends to repurpose 20 existing courts into approximately 67 dedicated pickleball courts throughout 2023. The next court conversions are scheduled for:

Kailua District Park
Ka‘ala Neighborhood Park
Makakilo Community Park

Mixed in with these court conversions is DPR’s on-going effort to resurface other outdoor courts, with renovations scheduled next at:

Kapāolono Community Park
Herbert K. Pililā‘au Community Park
Kāne‘ohe District Park
Kalihi Valley District Park

For a comprehensive list of City park pickleball courts please follow this link bit.ly/OahuPickleball , with similar information regarding O‘ahu’s public tennis courts available at this link: bit.ly/OahuTennis

To request auxiliary aids or services, accommodations due to a disability, or an interpreter for a language other than English in reference to this announcement, please contact the Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation at (808) 768-3003 on weekdays from 7:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. or email parks@honolulu.gov at least three business days before the scheduled event. Please note that we may not be able to fulfill requests without sufficient advance notice.

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