{"id":10291,"date":"2025-10-17T03:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:41:39","slug":"toms-river-launches-12-new-pickleball-courts-at-township-parks-more-improvements-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/10\/toms-river-launches-12-new-pickleball-courts-at-township-parks-more-improvements-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Launches 12 New Pickleball Courts at Township Parks, More Improvements Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10292\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"A group plays Pickleball at a purpose-built court. (Credit: Openverse\/ Creative Commons)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"A group plays Pickleball at a purpose-built court. (Credit: Openverse\/ Creative Commons)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10292\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10292\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A group plays Pickleball at a purpose-built court. (Credit: Openverse\/ Creative Commons)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group plays Pickleball at a purpose-built court. (Credit: Openverse\/ Creative Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As pickleball continues to grow in popularity, Toms River officials announced this week that they have created 12 new courts spread between three township parks.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen new courts have been marked at Shelter Cove Park, Bey Lea Park, and Snug Harbor Park. Mayor Dan Rodrick said this week that six pickleball courts can fit in the space of one traditional tennis court, making this a \u201cgroundbreaking transformation\u201d of existing park space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy prioritizing this modern sport, we are not just keeping up with trends \u2013 we are ensuring that Toms River remains an accessible and engaging place for residents of all ages to stay active and connected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the 12 new pickleball courts is part of a larger plan to revitalize the township\u2019s parks, Rodrick said, adding that \u201cMany of our basketball and tennis courts have fallen into disrepair, limiting opportunities for our aspiring athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The township, he said, is beginning a comprehensive repaving project for all of Toms River\u2019s basketball and tennis courts. The effort includes significant upgrades at Snug Harbor, Skyview, and Bey Lea Parks, with an eye on improving safety and accessibility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/10\/toms-river-launches-12-new-pickleball-courts-at-township-parks-more-improvements-planned\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pickleball continues to grow in popularity, Toms River officials announced this week that they have created 12 new courts spread between three township parks. A dozen new courts have been marked at Shelter Cove Park, Bey Lea Park, and Snug Harbor Park. Mayor Dan Rodrick said this week that six pickleball courts can fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,1117,11],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toms-river-life","tag-featured","tag-pickleball","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pickleball_Players.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}