Parks and Recreation

The City maintains several parks throughout the community. The Parks and Cemetery Supervisor employs a number of seasonal works to ensure all of the parks are maintained. A brief description of the City's parks follow:

Covell Park is a 3.9 acre community park. The park provides access to White River and it is primarily used for fishing. Picnic tables and grills are on-site. Boat launch to White River to paved parking.

Funnell Field is a 12.6 acre neighborhood park with two softball fields, two tennis courts, two Little League fields, two basketball courts, restrooms, soccer field and playground equipment. The School District's teams use the fields as well as the White Lake are softball clubs.

Gee Park is a 1.6 acre neighborhood park. The park provides picnic tables, grill and playground equipment.

Goodrich Park/White Lake Municipal Marina is a 8.5 acre regional and community park. The park includes a 50 slip marina for seasonal and transient boat use with toilets and showers for marina users. The park also includes separate restrooms for park users, picnic tables, grills, a picnic shelter, playground equipment, 960 foot bicycle/ pedestrian path, benches and a parking/viewing area. The park is a popular summer time gathering area for boating, fishing, play equipment and passive recreation. Regional activities such as the Maritime Festival and Boat Show occur at the park.

Lions Park is a 3.5 acre community park. The park provides access to White River , an accessible boardwalk, a stairway, floating docks, a picnic shelter and an interpretive station.

Norman Park is a 1.0 acre community park. The park provides residents with picnic tables, grills, swings, an interpretive station and a stairway and deck access to the White River Trail.

Slocum Park is a 2.4 acre community park with two lighted tennis courts, picnic tables and grills. The School District uses the courts for practice, league play and instruction. This is the location of the City Hall and Fire Station.

Svensson Park a 3.7 acre community park with a boat launch for non-motorized boats, sand volleyball, a footbridge, picnic tables, grills and playground equipment. The park provides lake access for fishing.

Veteran's Memorial is a 0.5 acre community park and monument.

White Lake Pathway is a 3.2 mile long asphalt-paved linear park that extends from White Lake Drive near Cogswell Avenue north to Stanton boulevard in Montague.  Views from the pathway are varried, including mature natural woodlands, professionally landscaped flower beds, outdoor sculptures, access to White Lake and local marinas, and the White River flood plain.  The south end connects to the 6 mile long Berry Junction Trail and the north end connects to the 22 mile long Hart-Montague Trail for over 31 total mile of continuous paved trail.

White River Flood Plain is a 200 acre regional park reserve.

White River Trail is a 0.25 mile accessible linear park with a foot bridge at the trail head. The trail follows the shoreline of the White River Flood Plain to an observation deck.