DeSoto Family Recreation Area

This area offers an array of activities for every member of your family. The DeSoto Pool area includes a diving pool, a children’s pool, and a 3,000 square-foot swimming pool. The playground features swings, slides, and other activities for children. The outdoor game courts include badminton courts, shuffleboard lanes, lighted tennis courts, basketball courts, Frisbee golf, a miniature golf course, and horseshoe pits. The DeSoto Games Area ensures that there will always be entertainment for your family.

Family oriented fun
3 Separate Pools
Changing Rooms
Playground area
Indoor games building
Educational and Video Games
Outdoor game courts
Mother's Day Out

Listed below are many programs and activities available at the DeSoto Family Recreation Area

Play Day Program.

If you need supervised care for your child or grandchild, they should be enrolled in the summer Play Day Program or enrolled in a licensed childcare center.

Children on our playground are not supervised.

Outside Activities

The DeSoto Family Recreation Area features a multitude of outdoor play activities for all ages. There are three hard surface tennis courts and two basketball courts. Volleyball, badminton, and tetherball are also available, as well as space for informal play.Playground equipment is located in various areas around the recreation area and picnic tables and grills are provided.

Inside Activities

The fun doesn’t stop outside either. The approximately 3,000 square foot activities building was completed in 1999.

Two pool tables, ping pong, skee ball, foosball, air hockey, televisions, movies, a video game station with games, board games, building blocks, children’s toys, computers and a piano are all available for inside play.

A snack bar is also located inside the facility stocked with many choices of favorite foods.

Special Activities

The DeSoto Family Recreation Area hosts a variety of special events throughout the year: an Easter egg hunt, Fourth of July celebration, children and youth lock-ins, three-on-three basketball tournaments, Halloween party, and a Christmas party with Santa.

Summer Activities

The recreation area is available, as always, to those who want to use the facility on their own. However, during the summer months, the DeSoto Family Recreation Area also offers structured programs for children ages 5-6 and ages 7-12.

The Play Day program provides all day activities and entertainment.

Summer Play Day Program

Play Day sessions begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. The cost for property owners is $11.00 plus tax per day and participants must bring a swimsuit and sack lunch. The cost for those with summer memberships to the DeSoto Family Recreation Area is $8.00 plus tax per day. The cost for non-property owners is $15.00 plus tax per day.

Play Day Activities: The structured Play day program includes the following activities: miniature golf, arts and crafts, swimming, tennis, group games, theater fun, archery, water games, and playground activities. Children in Thursday Play Days may also participate in bowling at the Fiesta Bowl for an additional $10.00.

Fall Programs
- Mother’s Day Out: A preschool “Mother’s Day Out” program is offered on Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 am to 1:30 pm, September through April. The fee is $12.50 for Property Owners and $17.50 for Non-Property Owners. Property owner sibling discount is $10.50 per day. Children enjoy indoor and outdoor play, lessons, music, gymnastics, story time and crafts.
Rental

The DeSoto Family Recreation Area is available for rental groups or property owners who are searching for the perfect location for their next birthday party, family get-together, club meeting or baby shower.