America’s fastest-growing sport is also rapidly growing its footprint.
Over the past seven years, the number of outdoor public park pickleball courts in major cities has skyrocketed 650%, according to a new report by the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting people to the outdoors.
In 2017, fewer than half of the largest U.S. cities offered formalized pickleball courts. Today, parks and recreation departments have embraced the sport, spurring the installment of more than 3,000 courts across 100 of the most populated cities in the country.
And it’s not just local parks where you hear the infamous “pock” of pickleball. Courts have become big business as franchises, country clubs and fitness clubs build and convert space.
“There’s nothing that comes anywhere close to that growth among major park trends,” said Will Klein, associate director of parks research at Trust for Public Land. “When you look at playgrounds, ball fields, basketball courts, you know, you see very modest increases. So this is off-the-charts growth.”
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