Monett Recreation
Monett North Park (35 acres)
Spanning 35 acres and located between State Highways 37 and H – houses seven baseball diamonds, four tennis courts, two picnic shelters, two soccer fields and a playground area.
Monett North Park Features:
- 7 lighted baseball diamonds
- 4 lighted tennis courts
- Playground
- 2 Picnic shelters
- Skate Park
Monett South Park (65 acres)
The largest of the city’s two parks. The 65-acre park, located just south of State Highway 60, is home to a large fishing pond, four tennis courts, a basketball court, two soccer fields and a horseshoe court. During the summer months, the most popular place in town is the Olympic-sized swimming pool, with its dominant 50-foot water slide. There are also two playgrounds, picnic shelters, a rose garden and fountain, and miles of trails used daily by walkers, cyclists and nature-loving hikers.
The Monett South Park rubs elbows with the 200-acre Windmill Ridge Golf Course – a public, 6,464 yard course with 18 holes at a Par 72. Open all year, the course has hilly fairways that are both wide and narrow, with level and fast greens.
Monett South Park Features:
- Rose garden fountain
- Fishing pond with fountain
- 4000 feet of trails for walking, bicycling, hiking
- Exercise trail & nature trail
- 4 lighted tennis courts
- 1 lighted basketball court
- 2 soccer fields
- Horseshoe court
- Olympic-size swimming pool w/ 50-ft. waterslide
- 2 Playground areas
- Old Frisco RR caboose
- Picnic shelters
- Outdoor band shell
Other Leisure Activities
- The Monett Racing Speedway offers weekend racing for all ages, with races scheduled from late March through mid-September
- Monett Plaza Eight Cinema offers new movies in eight theaters
- Ozark Festival Orchestra is an ensemble of 50 to 60 instrumental musicians from around the Southwest Missouri area
- Skeet and shooting range
- A variety of civic clubs, a Senior Citizens Center & organizations
- Other leisure activities can be found through YMCA classes – youth drama, yoga, ballroom dancing, scrapbooking and fitness programs or sporting teams
- Dance Company
- Skate Park
- Batting Cages
- Kickin Paintball offers paintball excitement for all ages
Monett is the center of it all – take a hop, skip or jump to Joplin, Springfield or Branson for historical sites, museums, zoos, minor league baseball, amusement parks and performances by famous entertainers.