Kingston Reopens Loughran Park Courts With Eight New Pickleball Spaces

Eight dedicated pickleball courts on fresh asphalt, permanent nets, permanent lines, free admission and no reservation required: Loughran Park in Kingston, New York formally reopened its rebuilt court complex on March 29, and the result is the most purpose-built public pickleball facility in the Hudson Valley.

Parks and Recreation Director Lynsey Timbrouck called the reopening "an important moment for local recreation," a measured description for a project that essentially razed the old court surfaces and started over. Construction ran from August 18, 2025 through November, but early snowfall forced the city to keep the facility locked through winter rather than risk damage to the new asphalt. That delay pushed the ribbon-cutting to spring 2026, ending an eight-month wait for Kingston players who had been squeezed onto the park's older, repurposed lines.

The finished complex holds two tennis courts and eight pickleball courts within the same footprint as before. The rebuild addressed everything below the surface too: improved subgrade stability to prevent the cracking and frost heaving that made older courts unplayable, a bioretention swale for on-site drainage management, and physical sound barriers that separate pickleball from the tennis courts and neighboring residences. Noise mitigation has become a recurring battleground in court projects across the country, and Kingston's decision to engineer it into the original scope rather than respond to complaints after the fact is the kind of detail that distinguishes a durable facility from a temporary fix.

Mayor Steven Noble pointed to direct community demand as the driver behind the project, and the numbers back him up. Eight courts at a free public park with no reservation required is a rare combination at this scale anywhere in the region.

For visiting players planning around the new facility: the courts sit at the corner of Manor Avenue and Charlotte Street, with dedicated parking off Manor Place. Based on established play patterns at the site, morning sessions from 9 to noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays draw the most reliable turnout. Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. are the consistent secondary window.

The rest of a Kingston pickleball weekend comes together quickly. Hotel Kinsley, a boutique collection of four historic buildings in the Stockade District, puts you in walking distance of the uptown dining corridor, including Santa Fe Uptown, which has anchored the neighborhood for more than 30 years. With eight courts now in play, Kingston's Parks and Recreation department has the infrastructure to finally run the structured leagues, clinics, and youth programming that the previous configuration could never support.