CENTRAL REGION

In This Region Region Highlights

Recreational Facilities

Lake Spanaway Golf Course

Sprinker Recreation Center

Parks

Bresemann Forest

Dawson Playfield

Gonyea Playfield

Lidford Playfield

Mayfair Playfield

Parkland Prairie

Spanaway Park

Trails

Bresemann Forest Trail

Parkland Prairie Nature Trail

Swan Creek Trail

The Central Region continues to thrive with fun and accessible programming for Pierce and neighboring county residents and visitors to the Puget Sound area. Spanaway Park hosted a variety of public and private events, including Spana’Jam — a new community event that attracted 4,000 attendees to enjoy food trucks, live music, and a classic car show. Plus, Lake Spanaway Golf Course hosted more than 36,200 rounds in addition to being a co-host with Chambers Bay for the 55th Annual Puget Sound Amateur tournament.

Sprinker Recreation Center is the regional hub for figure skating, ice hockey, softball, baseball, tennis, rock climbing, and cyclocross events. Some of our most popular attractions included the free Touch-ATruck event, May Blades ice competition, and the always popular Ice Bumper Cars, which brought 10,660 people to bounce and bump on ice. Sprinker and Spanaway Park continue to be Pierce County’s holiday destination. From Thanksgiving weekend to New Year’s Eve, nearly 180,000 people came to the region to see Spanaway’s annual Fantasy Lights drive through holiday show and experience the magic of ICE Lights at Sprinker.

Special Events

Central Region 21 202.2K Events Event Participants

Performance Highlights

36K ROUNDS of golf at Lake Spanaway Golf Course brought over $1.6 M in golf, food, and beverage revenues.

6K CHILDREN and their families attended the free Touch-A-Truck event.

92K PEOPLE used the Central Region trails in 2022.

Improvement Projects

Lidford Playfield

174K PEOPLE participated in classes, activities and programs at Sprinker Recreation Center in 2022.

22K SKATERS enjoyed ICE Lights in 2022.

157K SPECTATORS in over 26k vehicles and walkers were mesmerized by Fantasy Lights.

Outdoor Life

The Outdoor Leadership Instruction and Field Experience (LIFE) program grew in 2022. Grants were secured to expand the program to students of Franklin Pierce Schools, and Summer LIFE field trips and activities were offered to local teens.

Summer Cool Camp

Constructed a new playground with an ADA swing, climbing structure, slides, musical instruments and ADA benches.

Orangegate Park & Pipeline Trail

Completed a master plan with public outreach, conceptual design, cost estimating and a grant application for design and construction. Pipeline Trail design was completed and permits were submitted for this 1.6-mile section of trail from 72nd ST E and Waller Road to Orangegate Park.

Parkland Trail

Design moved to 90%; final properties needed for the trail are under contract to be purchased.

Spanaway Regional Park

Sprinker Recreation Center Building Improvement Study: Public outreach to identify priorities and inform conceptual design and cost estimating for major renovations advanced in 2022.

Sprinker Recreation Center outdoor improvements: Completed design, engineering and permits for a spray park, playground, fitness court, futsal court, event lawn, 2 artificial turf fields, renovated basketball court, restroom and parking. Construction starts 2023.

Sprinker Recreation Center Team Rooms: Completed design, engineering, and permits and began construction on the new team rooms.

Our fantastic ice professionals put on multiple events in 2022 including Summer Cool Camp, where youth can learn to skate in just one week! The Summer Cool Camp included skate rental, t-shirt, on-ice skill instruction, off-ice classes, introduction to hockey, supervised practice times, broomball, on-ice games, and Ice Bumper Cars!