{"id":5403,"date":"2025-10-17T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:20:44","slug":"bethlehem-park-reopens-on-tuesday-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5403\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Park reopens on Tuesday, April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem Park officially reopens on Tuesday, April 1, after more than a year of renovations. The pickleball courts and basketball play areas will be completed in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexandercountync.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bethlehem-Park-1-scaled-e1743461401874.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bethlehem-Park-1-scaled-e1743461401874.jpg\" alt=\"Bethlehem Park\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15531\"\/><\/a>Improvements at Bethlehem Park include a new 30\u00d796-foot restroom\/concession\/picnic building, which represents a significant upgrade from the previous structure. The new building features double the number of restrooms, a new kitchen area, two serving windows, and picnic areas on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Other amenities include a new playground, conversion of two tennis courts to six pickleball courts, half-court basketball play areas, new lighting with steel poles and LED lights, conversion of the large baseball field to a soccer field, new baseball\/softball batting cages, new ADA sidewalks and entry, parking lot resurfacing, drainage improvements, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The new playground features areas for ages 0-5 and 5-12, including swings, slides, sensory areas, nature features, and more. The playground has a 20-year warranty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alexandercountync.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bethlehem-Park-3-scaled-e1743461668907.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bethlehem-Park-3-scaled-e1743461668907.jpg\" alt=\"Bethlehem Park\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15532\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total project cost is $2,370,000, which is funded by state-appropriated funds and sales tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Park, which is approximately 13 acres, has been operated by Alexander County since the 1970s. The last major update was done on the shelter and playground in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Park officially reopens on Tuesday, April 1, after more than a year of renovations. The pickleball courts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}