{"id":392717,"date":"2026-07-10T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:04:11","slug":"park-in-west-sacramento-reopens-with-citys-first-pickleball-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392717\/","title":{"rendered":"Park in West Sacramento reopens with city&#8217;s first pickleball courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOFFICIALS HOPE THE IMPROVEMENTS WILL HELP DRAW MORE PEOPLE DOWNTOWN. A GRAND REOPENING TODAY AT WEST ACRE PARK IN WEST SACRAMENTO. FAMILIES GATHERING TO ENJOY A NEW SKATE PARK. BASKETBALL COURTS, SPLASH PAD, PICKLEBALL COURTS FIRST EVER FOR THE CITY THAT ARE PUBLIC. SECOND, THAT THE FENCE CAME DOWN THIS MORNING. THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY CAME OUT TO USE AND EXPERIENCE ALL OF OUR PLAY FEATURES. WE HAVE THE SPLASH PAD GOING. WE HAVE KIDS GOING DOWN THE SLIDE, WE HAVE PICKLEBALLERS, WE HAVE SKATERS. SO IT REALLY IS MEETING ALL OF OUR NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND UPLIFTING OUR ENTIRE POPULATION. YEAH, I AM A PICKLEBALL. CURTIS. YES, THE RENOVATIONS WERE FUNDED THROUGH A $7.8 MILLION PROP 68 GRANT AND ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM OTHER DONORS. AND THERE\u2019S ANOTHER EVENT TO CELEBRATE T\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Park in West Sacramento reopens with city&#8217;s first pickleball courts<\/p>\n<p>Ribbon cutting for West Acre Park<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769020329_917_kcra.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"KCRA logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:45 PM PDT Jul 9, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe city of West Sacramento unveiled the new and improved West Acre Park on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The new amenities of the park include a play structure, splash pad, basketball court, skatepark, and soccer fields. The park is also home to the first pickleball courts in the city. \u201cThe second that the fence came down this morning, the entire community came out to use and experience all of our play features,&#8221; said Kate Smith, the Parks and Recreation Director for the city of West Sacramento. &#8220;We had the splash pad going. We have kids going down the slide, we have pickleball, we have skaters. So it really is meeting all of our needs of our community and uplifting our entire population.\u201dThe changes are funded through a  $7.8 million Proposition 68 Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program Grant from California State Parks.There is another event to celebrate the project. The city is hosting a party in the park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The city of West Sacramento unveiled the new and improved West Acre Park on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The new amenities of the park include a play structure, splash pad, basketball court, skatepark, and soccer fields. <\/p>\n<p>The park is also home to the first pickleball courts in the city. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second that the fence came down this morning, the entire community came out to use and experience all of our play features,&#8221; said Kate Smith, the Parks and Recreation Director for the city of West Sacramento. &#8220;We had the splash pad going. We have kids going down the slide, we have pickleball, we have skaters. So it really is meeting all of our needs of our community and uplifting our entire population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The changes are funded through a  $7.8 million Proposition 68 Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program Grant from California State Parks.<\/p>\n<p>There is another event to celebrate the project. The city is hosting a party in the park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Download our app<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=kcra.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OFFICIALS HOPE THE IMPROVEMENTS WILL HELP DRAW MORE PEOPLE DOWNTOWN. A GRAND REOPENING TODAY AT WEST ACRE PARK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1833,157976,157977,121,123,122,157978,2958],"class_list":["post-392717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-park","tag-play-the-west-way","tag-prop-68","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-west-acre-park","tag-west-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}