Find Pickleball CourtsFind Pickleball CourtsClaim Your Court

Placeholder image, not a photograph of this venue. We have not photographed Tarboro Road Park, and we would rather show a marked stand-in than a picture that implies we have. The correction link below reaches the same queue a photograph would.

About this place

Tarboro Road Park sits close to downtown Raleigh on North Tarboro Street and offers two lit pickleball courts, painted onto the park's tennis courts. The department's pickleball page, its GIS court inventory and the commercial dataset this directory started from all give two. A community centre shares the park, and so does the Saint Monica Teen Center, each keeping its own published hours. It is one of the more central places to play in a city whose biggest pickleball sites are further out, and one of nine lit Raleigh locations. The courts belong to tennis as much as to pickleball, and with two of them a queue forms quickly.

Getting there

121 N. Tarboro Street, postcode 27610, just east of downtown. Raleigh Parks publishes no parking guidance for the courts. No restroom is recorded for the park itself in the city's amenities inventory, though the community centre and teen centre on the same site keep public hours. The park's page carries separate opening hours for the park, the community centre and the teen centre, and none of them states when the outdoor courts are available, so no court hours are published here.

What to expect

Two lit courts over tennis lines. The lights run on a timer until 10 p.m. Raleigh Parks' rotation guidelines govern play: sign in or place your paddle, games singles or doubles to 11 points and win by 2, and all four players leave the court at the end of each game. Groups are asked to skip to the next fully open quadrant rather than break one up. The city does not state whether nets are provided, so bring one. It does not publish a surface material or a fee; the $3 session and $15 four-month pass are for indoor open play at its community centres, and the centre on this site is one of the thirteen that runs it.

Sources for the above: City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, checked 2026-09-03 · City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, checked 2026-09-03 · City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, GIS Division, checked 2026-09-03 · City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, GIS Division, checked 2026-09-03 · City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, checked 2026-09-03

Court details

Surface
Not stated
Nets provided
Not stated
Covered
Not stated
Climate controlled
Not stated
Lights
Yes
Pro shop
Not stated
Court availability
Not stated
Level of play
Not stated

Hours & schedule

Not stated — the operator has not published opening hours. Ring ahead.

Fees & access

Cost
Not stated
Drop-in fee
Not stated
Membership from
Not stated
Access
Not stated

Amenities

  • Restrooms: not stated
  • Lights
  • Nets provided: not stated
  • Covered courts: not stated
  • Climate controlled: not stated
  • Pro shop: not stated
  • Parking: not stated

statedstated absentnot stated

Location & directions

121 N. Tarboro Street, Raleigh, NC

Parking: Not stated

Get directionsRoutes to the court itself.

Player ratings

Thanks. Your review is in the queue: a person reads every one before it appears here, so it will not show up straight away.

That review did not go through. It needs a star rating, a name and at least twenty characters of text.

We could not save that review just now. Try again in a little while.

Be the first to review Tarboro Road Park

Played here? Say what it was like. Reviews are read by a person before they appear, and an average shows once there are three.

Write a review

Rate this court

Your rating

Your name, rating and text appear once approved. Your email never does. How reviews are handled.

Where each fact came from

5 of 22 facts carry a source and a date
FactValueSourceChecked
Total courts2raleighnc.gov2026-09-03
Indoor courtsNot statedNo source yet
Outdoor courts2raleighnc.gov2026-09-03
SurfaceNot statedNo source yet
LightsYesraleighnc.gov2026-09-03
Nets providedNot statedNo source yet
Climate controlledNot statedNo source yet
CoveredNot statedNo source yet
CostNot statedNo source yet
Membership fromNot statedNo source yet
Drop-in feeNot statedNo source yet
RestroomNot statedNo source yet
Pro shopNot statedNo source yet
PhoneNot statedNo source yet
Address121 N. Tarboro Streetraleighnc.gov2026-09-03
Pricing notesNot statedNo source yet
HoursNot statedNo source yet
Court availabilityNot statedNo source yet
Level of playNot statedNo source yet
ParkingNot statedNo source yet
AmenitiesNot statedNo source yet
Websitehttps://raleighnc.gov/places/tarboro-road-parkservices.arcgis.com2026-09-03

Questions about Tarboro Road Park

Is Tarboro Road Park a good central option?

It is one of the closest pickleball locations to downtown Raleigh, and it is lit, so it works after work. It has two courts shared with tennis, so it is a convenient option rather than a spacious one.

How many pickleball courts are at Tarboro Road Park?

Two, and every record agrees: Raleigh Parks' pickleball page, its GIS court inventory and the commercial dataset this directory started from. They are pickleball lines on the park's tennis courts rather than dedicated courts.

Do you run Tarboro Road Park?

What claiming does and does not doShow less

You can claim this listing and correct anything on it. To be clear about what claiming does and does not do: it gives you control of your own facts and a channel to reach us, and it is shown on the page as confirmed by the venue with the date you confirmed it.

It does not mark the listing verified, because a claim tells us who you are rather than checking what is here, and those are different things. It also buys no ranking, no sorting and no placement advantage over an unclaimed venue. The moment claiming bought position this would be an advertising product rather than a directory, and the whole promise would be gone.

Something wrong here?

If you play here and this is out of date, tell us. Corrections come with a source and a date attached, the same as everything else, and a correction that changes a court count gets checked against the city record before it goes live.

Send a correction for Tarboro Road Park

Other courts in Raleigh

  • A pickleball court, not Sanderford Road Park. We do not have a photograph of this venue.10 courtsOutdoorPublic Park

    Sanderford Road Park

    Lighted

    2623 Sanderford Road

    10 outdoor courts · lit for evening play · nets not stated

    CheckedSep 2026
  • A pickleball court, not Method Community Park. We do not have a photograph of this venue.6 courtsOutdoorPublic Park

    Method Community Park

    Lighted

    514 Method Road

    6 outdoor courts · lit for evening play · nets not stated

    CheckedSep 2026
  • A pickleball court, not North Hills Park. We do not have a photograph of this venue.6 courtsOutdoorPublic Park

    North Hills Park

    Lighted

    100 Chowan Circle

    6 outdoor courts · lit for evening play · nets not stated · restroom nearby

    CheckedSep 2026