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avre has more than 20 parks, plus a large city pool and other trails and park areas: • Havre-Hill County Community Swimming Pool, 420 6th Ave., indoor and open year-round. • Havre Community Skate Park, on 9th Street at Legion Lane. • Pepin Park, 4th Street and 7th Avenue, has playground equipment, restrooms, gazebo, horseshoe pits, barbecue pits, drinking fountain and picnic tables. • Carpenter Park, 4th Street and 12th Avenue, playground equipment, tennis courts, basketball courts and benches. • Lions Park, Main Street and 16th Avenue, restrooms and a baseball/softball field. • Eagles Park, 1st Street and 18th Avenue, playground equipment, drinking fountain, restrooms, horseshoe pits and picnic tables. • Patterson Park, 9th Street and 11th Avenue, playground equipment, fitness trail with stations, drinking fountain, restrooms, basketball court, off-street parking and picnic tables. • American Legion Park, 9th Street and 11th Avenue, baseball field with grandstand. • Elks Park, north and south of 16th Street at 9th Avenue, playground equipment, baseball field, drinking fountain and restrooms.
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• Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts, south of Elks Park at 17th Street and 9th Avenue, four tennis courts. • Bert Unruh Memorial Park, Heritage Drive and Bullhook Road, two sand volleyball courts and playground equipment. • Rotary Park, 19th Street and Beaver Creek Boulevard, playground equipment, drinking fountain, sun shade, barbecue pits and open grass area. • S Curve Park, 10th Street and 1st Avenue (northeast of MSU-Northern marquee sign). • Tourist Park, 1st Street and 12th Avenue, picnic tables and playground equipment. • Deaconess Park, 11th Street and Kennedy Avenue, playground equipment and open grass area. • US Bank Park, 11th Street West, offstreet parking, walking and jogging trails and drinking fountain. • Optimist Park, Boulevard Avenue and 9th Street West, two baseball/softball fields, playground equipment, restrooms, horseshoe pits, basketball court, drinking fountain, off-street parking and picnic tables. • 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field, 12th Street and 6th Avenue, men’s fast pitch and women’s softball field, concession stand and restrooms. • Softball Complex, Beaver Creek Highway south of Border Patrol Havre Sec-
tor headquarters, two men’s slow pitch and women's softball fields, playground equipment, concession stand and restrooms. • Sunrise Edition Park, 6th Street and 12th Avenue, playground equipment. • Memorial Park, 12th Street and 6th Avenue, ice skating area and picnic area. • Town Square, U.S. Highway 2 between 3rd and 4th Ave. Picnic area and town gathering. Other recreational areas in the city include Northern Montana Hospital's Community Fitness Park and the Bill Baltrusch Walking Trail. People can play softball or soccer on the playing fields, or enjoy a picnic on the tables at the fitness park, located at 15th Street and Montana Avenue behind the hospital. A walking track and restrooms are also onsite. Paved to make it more accessible to elderly people and people with strollers, the Baltrusch Walking Trail offers 2 1/2 miles of trail. Runners, bikers and walkers can also add a mile of unpaved gravel trail to the paved section if they so choose. The trail follows the contours of the land, with slight inclines, but is easily traveled by anyone. An exercise station is found at the beginning of the trail at the south end of 12th Avenue and the corner of 17th Street.
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