Fort Scott Park — Attraction in Arlington Ridge

This used to be a great little park for tennis and little baseball while growing up. Now, like a plague of locusts, there's another group of pests. Yes, the arrogant pickleball jerks have invaded here too. Why do I say arrogant? Firstly, the County violates its own rules for the tennis and basketball courts by allowing pickleball to be played on them in the first place. Secondly, these inconsiderate folks LEAVE THE PICKLEBALL NETS AND FRAMES right on the courts. Even when you push them to the side or back of court, they are a MAJOR SAFETY HAZARD! These are TENNIS courts first that shamefully pickleball players have vandalized and been allowed to play on them. The limited resources that used to be earmarked to maintain the already existing sports may be misappropriated to pay for these nets and the sound proofing. These ugly rubber walls hung in the fences are costly. Estimates for the ones installed here are $6000. Frankly, they're potentially very dangerous. N'e'er-do-wells can engage in lewd or illegal activities and you wouldn't be able to see. I know these PB players try to use the tired old pretexts of "nobody was playing tennis on them" "pickleball is fastest growing sport" and other fraudulent claims. Don't fall for it. Fight back. They took advantage of the pandemic and bulldozed right over the tennis community. It's not fair and it's been unchallenged for...

Pickleballers beware: a Professional Pickleballer (and Professional Fun Ruiner) works on these courts.

8:30am Saturday at Fort Scott. Mr PP. has a client on one court, my husband & I show up and start playing on another court. Halfway through our first game, Mr. PP interrupts our game and asks us to play doubles with him & his paying client. I tried to politely turn him down twice before Mr. PP tells me it's court rules that we have to play with them. So while we're playing with Mr. PP, he's barking rules at us, correcting us on every point, being generally annoying.

When the one game with them ended, Mr. PP immediately walked off the court looking for another game. At this point someone else had taken our previous court and we had no where to play. Mr. PP and his client had used us, and now discarded us. They did not care where we went as long as Mr. PP's lesson continued going well. He used us as unpaid support staff to enhance the experience of his paid client. Meanwhile, we got to play half a game like intended and then forced to leave.

Mr. PP – professional pickleballer,...

I’m reviewing the playground here, and I must say it’s really great! There’s so much here for kids of all ages and there’s a good bit of shade - a big plus in the hot summer months. The playground isn’t sparkly and new, but the newer parks don’t have nearly as much to offer as some of these slightly older parks. I hope this one stays this way for years to come! My kids love the roller slides - there are two - and there are multiple slides of different sizes. There’s a small sand pit in the middle, which my kids always enjoy. All around a great playground that I...