City of Mentor Parks & Recreation

Specialties

The Mentor Parks, Recreation & Public Facilities Department offers more than 1,200 ways to play each year. From art work shops, fitness classes, senior trips, and day camps to golf instruction, kayaking tours, nature walks and hockey leagues, the department offers something for everyone.

The department includes programming and services offered at the Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve & Marina, Black Brook Golf Course, Wildwood Cultural Center, Mentor Senior Center, Mentor Ice Arena and general recreation sites at each of our parks and facilities.

In Mentor, we know that parks and recreation programming enhances our community and creates a great place in which to live. We provide you with opportunities to meet your neighbors, improve your health, learn something new and develop hobbies for a lifetime.

History

Established in 1963.

Mentor Parks & Recreation is a department of the City of Mentor. Mentor is a popular destination for visitors who come to shop, hike or just hang out. Consider Headlands Beach — Ohio’s longest and best swimming beach and named one of the 20 best beaches in America by CNN Travel; the Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve and adjoining Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve boast over a mile of natural beach and more than 1,000 acres of trails, boardwalks and wildlife. There’s also the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, home of our 20^th U.S. President, and many, many shopping and dining opportunities.

Mentor, Ohio — named to the 100 Best Places to Live by Money magazine in 2006 and 2010, and to Smart Money’s Best Places to Retire in Ohio in 2012. We’re sure you’ll find that Mentor’s a great place — to live, work, play, or visit!