Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation

🎶 Tonight’s the Night! Downtown Decatur Days Begins Tonight! 🎶

The fun kicks off this evening with SINGO Night on the Madison Street Plaza! Join us for two themed SINGO events as we celebrate the start of Downtown Decatur Days 2026:

✨ 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Disney-Themed SINGO
🎸 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Totally 80s SINGO

Entry for both SINGO events is $5 per person and cash only.

Enjoy great music, prizes, community fun, exclusive drinks from SodaHouse and food from Andy & Friends Coney Bar. It's the perfect way to start an exciting weekend in Downtown Decatur!

🥚 Don't forget! If you haven't signed up yet for the ABC Real Estate & Travel and ABCinema Egg Drop Challenge 2026, now is the time! The challenge takes place tomorrow during Downtown Decatur Days, and you are NOT going to want to miss it!

📋 Sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdznRpsO49Se5P2nzuIzPd3w8cegxVmrDkiAl7Iw6s_AZz68w/viewform

We can't wait to see everyone downtown tonight and tomorrow! 🎉🏙️

The Decatur City pool will be closed Friday 6/19/2026. Watch here for updates on opening

The registration deadline for Parks and Recreation's Fall Youth Soccer program is approaching quickly. The final day to register will be Monday, June 22nd. You can sign up online at daparks.com or in person at the Riverside Center located at 231 E Monroe Street.

We only have 2 spots remaining for our camp on Monday.

Due to incoming storms, evening aquatics is canceled tonight (6/17/2026)

Notice of a Special Park Board Meeting. June 23, 2026 at 4:45pm at Riverside Center. This board meeting is specifically to discuss the pool findings and how to move forward.

The last games at REV were unable to play tonight but we got some ball in before the rain.

Last night, Park Board approved moving forward on applying for grants to make Southward Park into an All Inclusive park which will include equipment for all children, an updated court, bathrooms with a pavilion, and parking. This park will be completely fenced in so parents with small children or children who like to run can safely do so within the fenced in area.

We are working with grant companies who specifically award grants to projects such as this one. We have a company working on drawing that we can share with the public soon. Our plan is to start this project this calendar year.

With the issues at the city pool, we are holding off on registering for swim lessons until we have some answers. We will be posting here as soon as we have any updates on them. Thank you for your patience.

The Decatur City Pool will be closed until Friday as we look into leakage issues. In May, the pool was losing a foot of water every 24 hours. We did some investigating and found that the baby pool drain was constantly leaking as well as leaks from the intakes to the pool. We chose to close the baby pool until we could have it fixed. The only fix would be to concrete the current holes and run it's own chlorinated system to a shed closer to the baby pool. The cost of this is approximately $50,000. Tonight, the Park Board decided to not repair the baby pool at this time as there are other issues with the big pool we need to focus on at this time.

2 weeks ago, the big pool started losing 7 inches of water every 24 hours. We know where the water is going but have not been able to determine where it's leaking from the big pool. Filling our pool every night for 7 inches is very costly. We do have a few ideas on where the leak or leaks could be happening and will be doing our best to solve these issues. With the weather this week, we have decided it is best to close the pool as we work on finding a solution for our leakage issue. We hope to know more before the weekend.

Please stay tuned for updates on the pool. We would also appreciate comments to stay positive and helpful as we know the frustration the community will have with this news. We feel the same way as we have a fully trained staff ready to work who cannot work at this time. This is frustrating for all of us but we are actively pursuing a solution.

We will be having an emergency Park Board meeting next week to discuss this more. The date and time is TBD as we work to get the entire board together.