Best Recreation Center

Northwest Recreation Center

Located between Burnet and MoPac in the little neighborhood called Allendale, Northwest Recreation Center shows up for the first time in this category. This place has everything: weight room, arts & crafts room, full-sized gymnasium; plus, it sits adjacent to an extensive piece of parkland previously known as Northwest Park. Just to calm any confusion, the recently renamed Beverly Sheffield Park houses the recently rededicated Beverly Sheffield Pool, both named for Austin's 30-year director and patron saint of PARD, whose simple quote, "I don't believe we can get too much open space," has a lot to do with why we Austinites enjoy so much green in our lives.

Northwest Recreation Center
2913 Northland, 512/458-4107