Pickleball Courts in Clark County, WA

Three venues, 14 pickleball courts, one operator, one city. Everything we cover in Clark County so far sits inside the City of Vancouver: four dedicated outdoor courts at Oakbrook Community Park, six indoor at Firstenburg Community Center and four indoor at Marshall Community Center. All three addresses were matched by the Census address geocoder and resolved not only to Clark County but to the incorporated place "Vancouver city", so none of them is an unincorporated site with a Vancouver postal address. A fourth City site, Fisher Basin Community Park, is not counted here: the City publishes no court count for it, and the address it gives on its pickleball page belongs to Oakbrook. What is missing is the rest of the county: Camas, Washougal, Battle Ground, Ridgefield and La Center all run their own parks and none has been checked.

The three sites divide the city between them rather than clustering. Marshall Community Center is in the older western half near downtown, on East McLoughlin Boulevard. Oakbrook Community Park is in the centre, just west of Interstate 205. Firstenburg Community Center is out east on NE 136th Avenue. Between them they cover a west-to-east line across Vancouver with roughly the city's own spread, which for a set of three is better luck than most cities manage. The other thing worth knowing about the geography here is what lies immediately south: Vancouver sits on the north bank of the Columbia River directly opposite Portland, Oregon, whose eleven venues and 59 courts are a few miles over the bridge and are published on this site. For a player in Vancouver, the nearest large concentration of pickleball is in another state.

This is a thin page and it is worth being precise about why. The first gap is that Clark County is not only Vancouver. Camas, Washougal, Battle Ground and Ridgefield are all incorporated cities with their own parks systems, and none of their pages has been read, so this county is understated by an unknown amount. The second gap is inside Vancouver itself, and it is the City's own: Fisher Basin Community Park has pickleball, and the City has published neither a court count for it nor an address that survives comparison with its own park page. That is one venue that could be on this page tomorrow if a single number and a corrected address appeared. The third is the ordinary one, everything no municipality runs: private clubs, schools, and the courts that show up on player-maintained maps and no public page. And within what we do have, parking is unpublished at all three venues and surface at two of them.