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PAWTUCKET PARKS AND RECREATION

PLAYGROUNDS, COURTS AND PARKS

 

 

  • CITY PARK LOCATIONS

 

SLATER MEMORIAL PARK                   Location: Entrances at Newport Ave and Armistice Blvd.

  • 200-acre Olmstead designed park
  • a three-acre Class C fishing pond
  • 1895 historic Looff Carousel (oldest Looff stander carousel in the world),
  • 11 ballfields,
  • Tennis/pickleball courts (10 with 2 courts providing 4 pickleball court options)
  • 13 picnic sites,
  • Pavilion – covered event space
  • one basketball court
  • Disc Golf course – 9 basket
  • Daggett Farm,
  • Animal Shelter,
  • 2.2-mile linear bike trail from Armistice Blvd to Kimberley Rock Athletic Complex in Rumford,
  • Friendship Gardens nature preserve,
  • Marconi Gardens (weddings),
  • Parks & Recreation Administrative Office,
  • Dog Park facility
  • various outdoor art sculptures,
    • Eiffel Tower
    • Jacks
    • Rhode Island Watercolor Society,
    • Councilor J. Raymond Kinder Adventure Playground featuring climbing wall, space nets, slides and swings. Erected October 24-28, 1990. Amenities include: (inside playground) six benches, three 4-seater picnic tables and 2 portable trash receptacles. (outside playground) two benches, bike rack, one permanent trash receptacle and dedication stone.
    • Monuments
      • 1st Aviator Memorial – John F. “Jack” McGee – RI’s first aviator died while testing a Wright Aeroplane Flying Boat in a crash in Cowesett Bay in East Greenwich on June 11, 1918
      • WW I Memorial – Pawtucket Post #4 American Legion located at the baseball Field divide. Erected by Helpmates Club and dedicated November 19, 1939.
      • WW 1 Naval Gun:  3-inch, 50 Caliber, Mk22 Mod 0 gun mount

             Naval History and Heritage Command Loan L-2-523-2974

             Navy Department Accession Number 1971-495-A

  • 21 Heroes Monument

       Erected to honor the 21 fallen Pawtucket soldiers from the      

       Vietnam War in May of 2017

  • WW II – Memorial to the members of Scottish decent and clan Frasier who gave the ultimate sacrifice during the war. Dedicated May 30, 1946

PAYNE PARK                                              Location: West Avenue

  • Amenities include: 
    • Splash pad 
    • Basketball Courts
    • Performance area with mural backdrop
    • Playground including swings, slide, climbing apparatus
    • Age friendly exercise apparatus
    • walk path
    • trestle & shade structures
    • chair & table set  (2)
    • Benches (various)  (10)
    • trash receptacles  (perm = 3 / bins = 2)

 

 

 

VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK             Location: Smithfield Avenue

  • 20-acre park,
  • six ballfields,
  • tennis / pickleball courts (4 with a one court providing 2 pickleball court options)
  • outdoor pool
  • basketball court (1)
  • picnic sites with tables and stationary grill (6)
  • playground - Captain Christopher S. Cash Playground - 6-12 years appropriate includes:
    •  3 slides and
    • climbing apparatus
    • 2 benches
    • Dog Park        
    • Monuments
      • WW I & WW II plaques at entrance- honoring those servicemen who gave their lives and hailed from Fairlawn and Pawtucket in general.

 

  • Other Passive Parks throughout the City (19)
    • Berkley Park                                             Location: Memorial Drive
      • RIDEM ID#  27   - State Grant Funding
        • Amenities include:
          • (2) concrete benches,
          • (1) trash receptacle

 

  • Cannon Park                                             Location: Spring Street

 

  • Pawtucket Public Art Statue: “The Hiker”
        • Artist: Allen G. Newman
        • Year: 1922
        • Materials: bronze
        • Commission/Funding: J.J. Woolley Camp United Spanish War Veterans, Citizens of Pawtucket and Blackstone Valley
        • Location: Cottage and Exchange Streets
        • On a small green at the intersections of Exchange, Cottage, Grove, and Spring Streets, a reminder of the Spanish-American War stands tall figure atop a boulder pediment. The statue was erected in 1922, but it was designed and copyrighted by artist and sculptor Allen G. Newman in 1904 to be cast and replicated by Jno. Williams Co. in New York City. The statue brought Newman critical acclaim and became the official monument of the Veterans of the Spanish American War. And for good reason: American soldiers themselves spent much of that war hiking through the hot, muggy jungles of Pacific and Caribbean islands, often greeting each other casually with a, “hello, hiker!”

Described by respected critic and sculptor Lorado Taft as, “the best bronze soldier in America,” the pose of the soldier is thought to have been inspired by a painting by Frederick Remington, who worked to document the war in Cuba. The statue has been installed in more than 20 locations, including the New York Historical Society in New York City, Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, and even as close as Westerly, Rhode Island.

Newman himself was born in New York City in 1875. He studied at the National Academy of Design and for four years (1897-1901) under sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward at that artist’s studio. Among his other works are Triumph of Peace in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia; Women of the South in Jacksonville Florida; and Grier Monument in Lead, South Dakota. Throughout his life he was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Federation of Arts, the American Numismatic Society, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, the National Arts Club and was an associate at the National Academy of Design. He died in New York in 1940.

 

 

  • Cedar Street Park                                      Location: Cedar St/Mulberry/West Av.
    • Amenities include: 3 wooden benches, 3 checker tables with no seats
    • (discovered 4/6/20 on drive through)

 

  • Samuel S. Collyer Park                             Location: Mineral Spring Avenue
    • Amenities include: (4) double wood/concrete benches, (6) decorative lights, (2) permanent trash receptacles
    • Monument in memory of Samuel S. Collyer ( May 3, 1832 – July 27, 1884) Chief Engineer of Pawtucket Fire Department

 

  • Anthony J. Donahue Memorial Park        Location: Pond Street/Rhode Island Av
    • Amenities include: (3) concrete benches, concrete fountain (non-functional). Memorial to Anthony J. Donahue – 1st Commander  American Legion Post #40

 

  • East Street Park                                         Location: East Street / Branch Street
    • Amenities include:
      • Benches
      • Blackstone River overlook
      • Historical information board

 

  • Edward “Ted” Warnock Memorial Field      Location: 1135 Roosevelt Avenue
    • Amenities include:

 

  • Jaycee Park                                               Location: Prospect Street
    • Amenities include: NONE
    • Memorial Stone to George E. Brayman the first President of the Pawtucket Jaycees. 50 year anniversary commemoration March 7, 1940 – March 7, 1990

 

  • Manning and Heffern Park                       Location: Broadway
    • Amenities include:

 

  • Moore Park                                               Location: Dunnell/Hilton/Randall Sts.
    • Amenities include:
      • Agility equipment

 

 

  • Park Place Park                                         Location: Park Place
    • Amenities include:      flag pole, benches (14), trash receptacles (3)
    • Monuments include:
      • Civil War
      • Korean War
      • (Tree Memorial) Pawtucket resident Shawn Nassaney  - victim from 9/11/11 tragedies

 

  • Perez Park                                                Location: Pleasant Street
    • Amenities include:

 

  • Raleigh Park                                             Location: Raleigh Avenue
    • Amenities include:

 

  • Santos, John B. Park                                 Location: Lonsdale / Mineral Spring                                                                                Avenues
    • Amenities include: (3) decorative lighting, (8) metal benches, (2) concrete checker board tables

 

  • Summit Street Park                                   Location: Summit Street
    • Amenities include:
      • lighting and electricity
      • irrigation
      • gazebo

 

  • Taft Street Pier                                          Location: Taft Street
    • Amenities include:
    •  
    • William Blackstone Memorial Park – Location:  Roosevelt Avenue
      • Amenities include:
        • overlook terrace
        • landscape plantings
        • memorial statue constructed

 

  • Windsor Road Park                                   Location: Windsor Rd/Grand Ave.   

                                                                                   /Warwick Ave.

  • Amenities include: None

 

  • PLAYGROUNDS  (10)
    • Amenities include:  benches (3)
  • Agnes Little                                                   Location: Ashton Street
    • Renovated in 2013
    • Appropriate: 6 – 12 years old

 

  • Ayotte Park Playground                              Location: Johnson Street
    • Est 1941 -  National Parks Service  --   RIDEM ID# 4400247

.37 acre (est. 16,076 sq ft) playground - Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:

 

  • Barton Street Playground                            Location: Barton Street

Ages 2-5 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:

 

  • John Street Playground                               Location: 15 John Street

Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:

 

  • Payne Park Playground                               Location: West Avenue

Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include: 
    • Splash pad  see
    • Basketball Courts
    • Performance area with mural backdrop
    • Playground including swings, slide, climbing apparatus
    • Age friendly exercise apparatus
    • walk path
    • trestle & shade structures
    • chair & table set  (2)
    • Benches (various)  (10)
    • trash receptacles  (perm = 3 / bins = 2)

 

  • San Bento Playground                                  Location: corner of 71 Owen & Smithfield Avenues

Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:
  • Playground including (4) swings, slide w/climbing apparatus, (4) benches, rope climbing structure,
  • Picnic tables
  • Shade structures
  • trash receptacles  (perm = 1)

 

  • Councilor J. Raymond Kinder  Adventure Playground   Location: Slater Park

Climbing wall, two space nets, swings, slides, tot area

  • Amenities include: outside of park: (2) benches, bike rack, (1)      

                                                          permanent trash receptacle 

                               inside of park: (6) benches, (3) picnic tables -4   

                                                       seats each, (2) portable receptacles

  • 2019 – E 1 & Double Swoosh slide replaced

 

  • Tom Duffy (Oakhill) Playground                Location: 172 Cleveland St.

Ages 2-5 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:

 

  • Varieur School Playground                         Location: Pleasant Street

Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include:
    • Rubberized surface

 

  • Captain Christopher S. Cash Playground Location: Smithfield Avenue

      (behind Nathaniel Greene School)

Ages 6-12 yrs appropriate

  • Amenities include: (2) benches, climbing apparatus

 

 

BASKETBALL COURTS (11)-  In some cases, athletic courts require permits for special events and supersede public use in these cases.  Please call the Parks & Recreation Division for details or to acquire a permit request application.

 

  • Coutu Memorial Field (1 full)               Location: 49 Fountain Street  (behind Tolman High School)
    • Amenities include:   2 nets at the half court line allow for ½ court option as well   /   trash receptacle = 1   /  recycling receptacle = 2
    • AED:  Field light box on pole by Fountain Street  basketball cts

 

  • Jenks Junior High (1 full)                      Location: Division and South Bend Streets
    • Amenities include:

 

  • John Street (2 full)                                  Location: 15 John Street and George Bennett Highway
    • Amenities include: 2 benches
    • 2019 – resurfaced only

 

  • Payne Park (2 full)                      Location: West Avenue
    • Amenities include: 
      • Lights
      • Bleachers
      • benches

 

  • Slater Park (1)                                         Location: following the Animal Shelter on left prior to entering the picnic area
    • Amenities include: 2 benches (added 2014)
    • 2019 - resurfaced

 

  • Smithfield Avenue (2 full)                      Location: 509 Smithfield Avenue
    • 2019 complete renovation – new goals, boards and posts
      • Amenities include:
        • 4 benches,
        • 1 set of bleachers,
        • 1 picnic table

 

  • Tom Duffy Complex (1 full)                   Location: 172 Cleveland Street
    • Amenities include:
    • 2019 – resurfaced only

 

 

  • Veterans Park (1 full)                             Location: end of Grotto Avenue
    • Amenities include: (1) wooden bench (2) trash receptacles (1 blue-1 black)

 

TENNIS COURTS   - In some cases, athletic courts require permits for special events and supersede public use in these cases.  Please call the Parks & Recreation Division for details or to acquire a permit request application.

 

  • Slater Park (10 courts)                  Location: Across from Park Office
    • Tennis/pickleball courts (10 with 2 courts providing 4 pickleball court options)
      • Amenities include: 
        • lights,
        • Accessible Restrooms on premise,
        • Shade structure
        • spectator benches,
        • trash (2)/ recycling (1) receptacles
        • AED:  Electric Box right side near middle gate

 

  • Tom Duffy (Oakhill) Complex (4 courts)      Location: 172 Cleveland St
    • Amenities include:

 

  • Veterans Park (4 courts) with Lights            Location: Grotto Avenue within Veteran’s Park
    • tennis / pickleball courts (4 with a one court providing 2 pickleball court options)
      • Amenities include:     
        • lights,   
        • no restrooms on premise
        • 4 benches

 

 

ATHLETIC FIELDS   Athletic field facilities require permits prior to use.  Please call the Parks & Recreation Division for details or to acquire a permit request application.

 

COUTU MEMORIAL FOOTBALL PRACTICE FIELD

                        Location: Fountain Street (adjacent to Tolman High School)Formerly

                                    named Goff Lots,

  • Amenities include:      irrigation  /  field lights  /  goal posts (football)  /  trash receptacles (2)  /  Recycle bins  (2)
    • Flagpole with Memorial to Kyle Joseph Coutu, USMC
    • AED:  Field light box on pole at Fountain Street  basketball courts
    •  

 

                        GALEGO SOCCER FIELD

            Location: 324 Moshassuck Valley Industrial Highway

  • Amenities include:      irrigation

 

HANK SOAR SOFTBALL COMPLEX

Location: Prospect Street

  • Amenities include:      Three adult sized softball fields, field lights for all three fields, irrigation, infield wetting systems, jox box batting boxes at home plates, utility building with restrooms
  • Field 1 = 280 ft  /  field 2 = 310 ft  /  field 3 = 280 ft
  • AED:  Electric room

 

 

                        MAX READ ATHLETIC COMPLEX

                        Location: Pleasant Street (adjacent to Oak Hill Nursing Home)

  • Amenities include:
  • AED:  Field light box before stairs

 

  • Upper Football/Soccer Field – 2016 - synthetic turf
      • Amenities include:     
        • Field lights,
        • irrigation,
        • bleachers (1300 capacity), combined football/soccer field,
        • 400 meter track
        • long jump and triple jump pit.
        • capabilities for high jump, pole vault, low and high hurdles on site per request

 

  • Lower Major League Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include: Field lights, irrigation, bleachers, trash receptacles, restroom on premise

 

                                    (April 1 – August 14) Users: Shea baseball teams, Pawtucket

                                    Senior Little League, AAU baseball practice, Pawtucket Boys &

                                    Girls Club Baseball League, Adult Baseball Leagues, American

                                    Legion Baseball

 

                                    August 15 – November 30)  Users: Football and soccer team

                                    practices

 

  • Lower Youth Sized Softball Field
    • Amenities include: Irrigation,  trash receptacles, restroom on premise

 

 

MCCARTHY  PARK                         Location: School Street (adjacent to the Boys & Girls Club)- Concession stand (present contracted use) with restrooms available in the complex – 2 trash receptacles & picnic tables (property of Boys & Girls Club)

  • AED:  Storage room/restroom
  • Thibeault                                               Little League Sized Field
    • Amenities include: Field lights, irrigation, press box, scoreboard (property of Boys & Girls Club) aluminum bleachers (2), uncovered dugout covers with aluminum benches, trash receptacles (3), recycling

 

  • Minor                  Little League Sized Field
    • Clay Skin infield
    • Amenities include: field Lights, irrigation, aluminum bleachers (2), uncovered dugout covers with aluminum benches, trash receptacles (3)

 

  • Tee Ball Field
    • Amenities include: Field Lights  /  irrigation  /  wooden bleachers (2)  /  no dugouts but wooden benches available(2), trash receptacles (2)

 

  • McCarthy Park Complex  (from September 1 - November 15)

                              Converted to football/soccer fields

 

                        MCKINNON/ALVES YOUTH SOCCER COMPLEX

Location: Monticello Place     -   RIDEM ID# 690  - State Grant funded

Three regulation size fields adapted to nine youth size fields (U-6 through U-12; number varies year to year based on needs), 

      • Amenities include:      field lights  /   irrigation  /  concession stand (presently, contracted use) with restrooms and storage areas  /  trash receptacles (4)  /  recycling bins  (4)  /  ** additional parking on Dean Street
      • AED:  Storage room/electric

 

 

DENNIS O’BRIEN FOOTBALL PRACTICE FIELD   

Location: South Bend Street (adjacent to Agnes Little Elementary School)

Amenities include: Irrigation

AED:  Electric box near truck gate on Agnes Little school side

 

 

 

PARISEAU FOOTBALL/SOCCER FIELD    Location: Division Street next to McCoy Stadium

      • Amenities include: Field lights, combined regulation football and soccer fields, bleachers, press box, concession stand with restrooms, irrigation, 400 meter walking track
        • 2019 – FOOTBALL/SOCCER GOAL POSTS and 4 ground sleeves were added
      • AED:  Field light box at main gate

 

 

SLATER MEMORIAL PARK

      • GEORGE PATRICK DUFFY COMPLEX     Location: Newport Avenue entrance to Slater Park
        • Concession stands (3) (presently, contracted use) with restrooms available on premise
        • Darlington Girls: 3 picnic tables
        • Darlington American Little League – built 1998 – 3 picnic tables.
        • Batting cages implemented: 2016
        • AED (at Bailey Field behind backstop)

 

 

  • Dick Cosimini Little League Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include: Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, press box, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches, picnic table, trash receptacles, bullpens (2), recycling receptacles. Dedicated: 1973

 

  • Bill Costigan Little League Sized Field
    • Amenities include: Irrigation, infield wetting system,    (2) wooden bleachers, (2) uncovered dugouts with wooden benches, trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacles (1)

 

  • Roy Horan Little League Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include: Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, press box, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches, picnic table, trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacle (1)
    • Reconstructed:  Fall 2010 to clay infield
    • Flagpole with stone marker in honor of Roy Horan

 

  • McConnon Major League Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include: Field lights, score board, irrigation, infield, wetting system, enclosed dugouts, (2) bullpens (installed 2020), (2) aluminum bleachers (installed 2020)   Fall 2010 & 2020 reconstructed infield

 

  • Jim Ruthowski Little League Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include:            Irrigation, infield wetting system, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches, trash receptacles ( ), recycling receptacles (  )
    • Reconstructed 2012 to clay infield
    • Memorials:  John P. Hagen 1970 and Jim Ruthowski 1971

 

  • Albert D. Bailey Youth Softball Field (225 feet to center)
    • Amenities include: Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with aluminum benches, trash receptacles ( ), recycling receptacles (  ), picnic tables (2)

 

  • Henry S. Kinch Youth Softball Field (185 feet to center)
    • Amenities include: Irrigation, infield wetting system, scoreboard, wooden bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches, trash receptacles ( ), recycling receptacles (  )

 

  • John Bradley: Girls Softball Tee Ball Field
    • Amenities include: stone dust infield, (2) aluminum bleachers, (2) uncovered dugouts with wooden benches

 

 

  • Tee Ball Sized Field  (adjacent to Costigan Field)
    • Amenities include: (2) wooden bleachers, (2) wooden benches

 

  • Paul Shea: Tee Ball Sized Baseball Field
    • Amenities include: Irrigation, 2 bleachers

 

 

 

  • SLATER PARK HISTORIC CORE    Location:  Armistice Blvd

 

  • Seastrom Baseball Field (less than major league but greater than little league size)
    • Amenities include:            Stone dust skin infield  /   irrigation  /   infield wetting system  /  aluminum bleachers  (2)  /  covered dugouts w/ aluminum benches (2)  /  park benches adjacent to location (4)  /  trash receptacles (2)  /  recycling bins  (1)  /  storage facility on premise
    • AED:  Electric Box right side near middle gate of tennis courts

 

 

TOMLINSON ATHLETIC COMPLEX        Location: Daggett Avenue

                                    BASEBALL SEASON (APRIL 1 – JULY 31)

                        FOOTBALL SEASON (AUGUST 1 – NOVEMBER 30):

Utilizes entire complex for practice except major and minor Little League fields

  • Amenities include:      concession stand (presently, contracted use) with restrooms and storage areas, picnic tables (3), trash receptacles (2), batting cage on premise
  • Access to the Ten Mile River Greenway Bike Path
  • AED:  Electric box on hill near Daggett Avenue

 

  • Major League Sized Field – “Presidents Field”
    • Amenities include:            Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches, trash receptacles (1), recycling receptacles (  )
    • Reconstructed infield: Fall 2009

 

  • Major Little League Sized Field – “Founder’s Field”
    • Amenities include:            Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, press box, scoreboard, aluminum bleachers (2), batting cage adjacent, covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches trash receptacles (2), recycling

 

  • Minor Little League Sized Field
    • Amenities include:            Irrigation, aluminum bleachers (2), covered dugouts (2) with wooden benches trash receptacles (2), recycling

Reconstructed field: 2012 (clay infield)

 

  • Farm Little League Sized Field
    • Amenities include:  wooden bleachers (2), uncovered dugouts (2) with wooden benches trash receptacles ( ), recycling receptacles

     

 

  • Tee Ball Sized Field
    • Amenities include:  (location within complex provides lighting, wooden bleachers (2), temporary wooden bench trash receptacles (1), recycling receptacles

 

 

VETERANS   PARK  COMPLEX     Location: Smithfield Avenue (behind Nathaniel Greene School)

      • Concession stand with restrooms available on premise accessible with a permit
      • Batting Cages (adjacent to Pfefferle – built 2016)
      • FIELDS - Upper
        • Carl Deluca            Little League Sized Field
  • Amenities include:  Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, Press tower, (10) benches, (2) covered dugouts, (2) sets bleachers
  • AED:  Storage room/restroom - near playground

 

        • Albert “Buck” Pfefferle       Little League Sized Field
  • Amenities include:  Irrigation, (2) covered dugouts, (2) sets bleachers
  • AED:  Storage room/restroom - near playground

 

        • John E. “Jack” Carney          Tee Ball Field
  • Amenities include:  Irrigation, (2) benches, (1) small bleachers
  • AED:  Storage room/restroom - near playground

 

 

      • FIELDS – Lower
        • Concession stand with restrooms available on premise
        • AED:  Press box at Field A Backstop

 

  • Jack Gradwell A               Softball Field
    • Amenities include:      Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, press box, aluminum bleachers (2), uncovered dugouts (2) with aluminum benches trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacles

 

 

  • Gradwell Major League Sized                  Baseball Field
    • Amenities include:  Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, aluminum bleachers (1), covered dugouts (2) with aluminum benches,  trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacles

 

  • Gradwell Complex   (from August 1 – November 15)

                              Converted to football/soccer fields

 

Miscellaneous Recreational Facilities

 

  • TRAILS / Paths
    • Disc Golf Trail                                          Location:  Slater Memorial Park
    • Ten Mile River Bike/ Walking Path         Location: along Ten Mile River from Tomlinson Sports Complex through Slater Park to Kimberly Rock Sports Complex, East Providence

 

 

  • SKATE PARKS
    • Jenks Junior High  (built 2009)             Location: Division and South Bend
      • Amenities include:

           

                               

                                                                                                                       

  • PERFORMANCE VENUE
    • FESTIVAL PIER           Location: 100 Tim Healey Way   (off School Street)
      • $2 million renovation in 2015 which includes a new plaza, lighting, benches, picnic tables, fishing and parking areas and a new boat ramp to access the Seekonk River
        • Large events need to be coordinated with the City
        • Important to note – parking is an issue
          •  
          • VETERAN’S MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATRE        Location: Roosevelt Ave
            • This early-Greek replicated structure is located adjacent to Pawtucket City Hall on the banks of the Blackstone River.  This 208-seated concrete amphitheatre is the location for summer musical performances sponsored by the City’s Parks & Recreation Division.

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

CURRENT ORGANIZATION USE OF FACILITIES

 

VETERANS   PARK  COMPLEX                 Location: Smithfield Avenue (behind

                                                                                                                                                                        Nathaniel Greene School)

                        UPPER FIELDS     

            Deluca Little League Sized Field:

                                    Fairlawn Little League, AAU Baseball, Nat Greene gym

                                                classes

            Pfefferle Little League Sized Field

                              Fairlawn Little League, Nat Greene gym classes

      Carney Tee Ball Field

Fairlawn Little League

 

LOWER FIELDS BASEBALL/SOFTBALL SEASON

APRIL 1-JULY  31

Gradwell A Softball Field

                      Fairlawn Little League softball

Gradwell B Softball Field

                       Fairlawn Little League softball

            Gradwell Major League Sized Baseball Field

            (Can not use baseball field when softball is played and vice versa)

Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system

Users: SRA baseball, Pawtucket Senior Little League, Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club

Baseball League, AAU Baseball

 

FOOTBALL/SOCCER   SEASON AUGUST 1 - NOVEMBER  15

 

Gradwell Complex

Converted to football/soccer fields

Users: SRA freshmen and junior varsity football games, Slater Junior High soccer and

Fairlawn Cardinals football

 

MCCARTHY  PARK

Location: School Street (adjacent to the Boys & Girls Club)

 

BASEBALL   SEASON APRIL   1 -  AUGUST  31

 

Thibeault Little League Sized Field

Field Lights, irrigation

Users: Pawtucket Slaterettes and Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club

 

Minor Little League Sized Field

Users: Pawtucket Slaterettes and Boys & Girls Club

 

Tee Ball Sized Field

Users:  Pawtucket Slaterettes and Boys & Girls Club

 

FOOTBALL/SOCCER   SEASON SEPTEMBER  1 - NOVEMBER  15

 

Minor league and tee ball fields convert to soccer and flag football fields for the Boys &

Girls Club Leagues

 

 

 

Maintenance Agreement     -    January 21, 2006

 

The following responsibility was agreed upon:

           

School Department:                          Potter-Burns, Curtis, Baldwin and Cunningham            playgrounds

                                                            Slater Jr. High field and basketball court

                                                            Jenks Jr. High basketball and tennis courts

 

 

City responsibility

- Agnes Little  (2013 – changed from 2006 agreement

  • Gary Jack Park  *** STATE OWNED PROPERTY   ** not a City Park

**It was lots 384,291,299,371,372,216,298 and part of the street.  It was taken by the State in 1956 as part of the I-95 project.                                       

  • Location: Cottage Street
  • Lewis Street Park                                            Location: Lewis Street
    • Amenities include: Park no longer exists
    • Newell Avenue                                               Location: Newell Avenue
      • Amenities include: Park no longer exists
      • Wilkinson Park                                               Location: Adjacent to Slater Mill
        • Amenities include:      sculptures, lighting
        • **BECAME PART OF THE NATIONAL PARK – MARCH 2021
        • Morley field Complex                                   Location: Moshassuck Street
          • Softball Field
            • Amenities include:          Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, wooden bleachers (2), uncovered dugouts (2) with aluminum benches, trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacles
      • Amenities include:      limited lighting, concession stand (presently, contracted use) with restrooms and storage areas
      • AED:  Storage room/electric room
      • **CLOSED 2013 – private sale / conversion to parking lot with portion of land for recreational use
      • Veteran’s Park
        • *** NOT UTILIZED AFTER 2017 – (Gradwell Field B) – grass was allowed to grow in                    
      • Softball Field
        • Amenities include:          Field lights, irrigation, infield wetting system, wooden bleachers (2), uncovered dugouts (2) with aluminum benches, trash receptacles (2), recycling receptacles

 

Mayor Grebien’s Letter of Appreciation for Community Efforts in the Recent Rescue of 46 Dogs from a Hoarding Situation

  • April 18, 2024
  • Uncategorized

Dear Pawtucket Residents,Many of you are likely aware that 46 dogs were recently rescued from a hoarding situation in the City. I'm writing to express my gratitude to the community for their...  Read More >

City Speak
"The birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, Pawtucket is poised to undergo a 21st century evolution into Rhode Island's premier arts and cultural destination, an ideal community to live, work, play, start a business and raise a family."

- Mayor Donald R. Grebien

New Event

2023 Mayor's Holiday Dinner

  • December 12, 2023
  • Event

Celebrating the success of the Mayor's Holiday Dinner – a time-honored tradition in Pawtucket! Grateful for the incredible support from elected officials, City of Pawtucket employees, and generous...  Read More >