City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
The Department of Recreation and Parks maintains and operates more than 390 sites for recreational use. The Department establishes, operates and maintains parks, swimming pools, public golf courses, recreation centers, museums, child care centers, youth camps, tennis courts, sports programs, and programs for senior citizens. It also supervises construction of new facilities, and the improvement of existing ones. The Department operates 180 recreation centers, 59 swimming pools, 9 lakes, 7 camps, more than a dozen museums and historic sites, and hundreds of programs for youth, senior, physically disabled and volunteers. The responsibility for the total year-round recreation program at each of the local centers is in the hands of that center’s director, a trained professional recreator. Among the museums under the jurisdiction of the Department are Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro, the Banning Residence Museum in Wilmington, Fort MacArthur Military Museum, Drum Barracks Civil War Museum in San Pedro, and Travel Town in Griffith Park. Several mountain facilities, staffed by trained counselors and directors, are maintained and operated in the Los Angeles area, the San Bernardino Mountains, and High Sierra. Twenty-nine full-time centers specifically for senior citizens are located in all areas of the City. Also, senior citizen clubs hold meetings and special events at numerous other recreation facilities.
For more information about the City of LA Dept. of Recreation and Parks go to www.laparks.org
Representative on CPIC from LA City Parks: Kimberly Simonet