While we'd love to learn as much about your ideas for the future of parks, we recognize some of you have less time than others. How would you prefer to participate and provide your feedback about Parks of the Future?
I'd like to fill out the complete survey (approx 10 minutes).
How often does your household use parks, recreation facilities, or programs in a year?
Regularly (9 or more times a year)
What do you feel are the top three functions provided by Montgomery Parks and the Montgomery County Recreation?
Montgomery Parks offers many opportunities to promote fitness and health within its 418 parks, including paved and natural surface trails, fitness equipment, amenities to exercise such as ice skating rinks, tennis centers and numerous athletic fields.
Parks are an ideal location for social gatherings with families, friends and neighbors. Montgomery Parks has many amenities to enhance such gatherings including camp grounds, picnic shelters, park activity buildings and play grounds.
Natural areas support a variety of ecological communities, and they form the backbone of our park system. Montgomery Parks recognizes these areas provide respite for park patrons and ecological benefits. The stewardship of these resources is a key component of a successful park system.
How would you rate the agency's parks, facilities and services in meeting the communities needs?
Parks - 4 Excellent
Recreational facilities - 3 Good
Recreational programs - 2 Fair
Are there any segments of the community that need to be better served by Montgomery Parks and Montgomery County Recreation? If so, who are they and how can they be better served?
The segment that needs better service is active senior citizens and, in particular, senior citizens who want to play pickleball.
What do you believe are the three most important issues / challenges facing Montgomery Parks and Montgomery County Recreation in the next five years?
Montgomery County needs to provide more programs and facilities for use of senior citizens who are active and want to exercise and improve their health.
Why did you choose these top three functions?
The active senior citizen population seems to be increasing in the County and this segment of the population is searching ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Providing facilities will encourage senior citizens to continue to reside in or relocate to Montgomery County, thereby helping the County to attract revenue, and help senior citizens to maintain good health, thereby reducing health care burden on the County.
What amenities, programs or experiences are missing that would better support your recreation needs that we should be planning for in the future?
There is an immediate need to increase facilities for play of pickleball. It is a sport that is ideally suited to active senior citizens, and it is growing in popularity. There are very few facilities available for outdoor play of pickleball in the County. I travel to many places in the United States, rural and urban, and Montgomery County is far behind other locations that I visit in offering outdoor facilities for pickleball. While it would be best for the County to provide dedicated outdoor pickleball courts, as an interim step, it should aggressively engage in a campaign to line existing tennis courts with pickleball lines so the tennis courts could be used for both sports. One park whose tennis courts could be developed for pickleball is Norwood Park in Chevy Chase.
How would you describe your household? Please check ALL that apply.
Someone age 55 and over lives here
Single-family detached house or townhouse / duplex
Lived in current house 15 or more years
White
Please provide your zip code here to help us to determine where facilities and services are needed.
20815
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While we'd love to learn as much about your ideas for the future of parks, we recognize some of you have less time than others. How would you prefer to participate and provide your feedback about Parks of the Future?
How often does your household use parks, recreation facilities, or programs in a year?
What do you feel are the top three functions provided by Montgomery Parks and the Montgomery County Recreation?
Montgomery Parks offers many opportunities to promote fitness and health within its 418 parks, including paved and natural surface trails, fitness equipment, amenities to exercise such as ice skating rinks, tennis centers and numerous athletic fields.
Parks are an ideal location for social gatherings with families, friends and neighbors. Montgomery Parks has many amenities to enhance such gatherings including camp grounds, picnic shelters, park activity buildings and play grounds.
Natural areas support a variety of ecological communities, and they form the backbone of our park system. Montgomery Parks recognizes these areas provide respite for park patrons and ecological benefits. The stewardship of these resources is a key component of a successful park system.
How would you rate the agency's parks, facilities and services in meeting the communities needs?
Are there any segments of the community that need to be better served by Montgomery Parks and Montgomery County Recreation? If so, who are they and how can they be better served?
The segment that needs better service is active senior citizens and, in particular, senior citizens who want to play pickleball.
What do you believe are the three most important issues / challenges facing Montgomery Parks and Montgomery County Recreation in the next five years?
Montgomery County needs to provide more programs and facilities for use of senior citizens who are active and want to exercise and improve their health.
Why did you choose these top three functions?
The active senior citizen population seems to be increasing in the County and this segment of the population is searching ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Providing facilities will encourage senior citizens to continue to reside in or relocate to Montgomery County, thereby helping the County to attract revenue, and help senior citizens to maintain good health, thereby reducing health care burden on the County.
What amenities, programs or experiences are missing that would better support your recreation needs that we should be planning for in the future?
There is an immediate need to increase facilities for play of pickleball. It is a sport that is ideally suited to active senior citizens, and it is growing in popularity. There are very few facilities available for outdoor play of pickleball in the County. I travel to many places in the United States, rural and urban, and Montgomery County is far behind other locations that I visit in offering outdoor facilities for pickleball. While it would be best for the County to provide dedicated outdoor pickleball courts, as an interim step, it should aggressively engage in a campaign to line existing tennis courts with pickleball lines so the tennis courts could be used for both sports. One park whose tennis courts could be developed for pickleball is Norwood Park in Chevy Chase.
How would you describe your household? Please check ALL that apply.
Please provide your zip code here to help us to determine where facilities and services are needed.
20815