Lighted Pickleball Courts in Rockville, MD

Why this matters here

Four Rockville venues have lights, and nineteen of the city's forty-six courts are at them: six at Welsh Park, five at Dogwood Park, four at Broome Athletic Park and four at Mattie J.T. Stepanek Park. The City states the consequence in the same breath: "Lighted courts close at 10 p.m." A court that ends at dusk is a court for mornings and weekends; a court that runs to ten is one you can reach after a working day. The lit nineteen split by kind. Ten are dedicated pickleball courts, four at Broome, four at Stepanek and two at Welsh, and the Broome and Stepanek rows say nothing about nets. Nine are lines on tennis courts, five at Dogwood and four at Welsh, where the City says "bring your own net" for eight of them and "use tennis net" for one. Welsh has both kinds, two dedicated and four striped, six under lights.

What puts a venue on this list

A venue appears here when the Lighted cell of its row in the City's outdoor-courts table reads Yes. Four published rows do: Broome Athletic Park, Dogwood Park, Mattie J.T. Stepanek Park and Welsh Park. The park pages agree where they speak: Stepanek's says "four lighted pickleball courts", Dogwood's "three lighted tennis courts", Welsh's "two lighted tennis courts". Welsh's page does not repeat the word for its dedicated pair; the table's Yes is the row's answer. A fifth Yes does not qualify, and not for want of lights. Twinbrook Park, four courts on two tennis courts, with a park page that says "two lighted tennis courts with pickleball lines", is at "12920 Twinbrook Parkway", a house number that neither the Census address file nor OpenStreetMap holds. Eight venues are excluded because the City marked them No. That is the whole of the exclusion: nothing is left off this page for silence, because the column has no blanks.

How late can I play under lights in Rockville?

Until 10 p.m. The City writes "Lighted courts close at 10 p.m." beneath its table, for the four rows marked Yes.

Which courts are lit?

Nineteen: six at Welsh, five at Dogwood, four at Broome, four at Stepanek. Ten are dedicated pickleball courts and nine are lines on tennis courts.

Are the other venues unlit or unknown?

Unlit, and stated: the Lighted column reads No for the other eight published venues. Rockville leaves no lighting answer blank.

Do the lit courts cost anything?

Not stated. The City prints no price for any court and does not write the word free.