Affordable and Accessible Recreation
Peterborough Recreation ensures that programs, activities and facilities are accessible for all abilities, and affordable with discount opportunities available for individuals and families.
Affordable programming
Peterborough Recreation ensures that programs, activities and facilities are accessible for all abilities, and affordable with discount opportunities available for individuals and families.
Programs and activities
Peterborough Recreation offers a wide range of programming, allowing for participation from all abilities:
- Aquatic programs: Learn to swim at any age with Swim for Life aquatic programming. All levels can be adapted in group format to support varying abilities. We also offer private, trio and adaptive lessons to ensure success for all abilities.
- Day Camps: Our day camps and registered programs can be enjoyed by participants with physical and cognitive disabilities. Contact us for more information at 705-742-0050.
- Fitness programs: Classes are taught with modifications for different levels of abilities, unless otherwise stated. Peterborough Recreation offers many programs to help manage chronic conditions, including gentle aqua fit, aqua balance, Functional Fitness and Restorative Moment. In partnership with the Alzheimer's society we offer Minds in Motion, and are also partners with Cardiac Rehab, offering many Heart Wise classes.
Accessible supports
The goal of the Recreation Services Division is to meet the diverse needs of all people and follow the principles of dignity, independence, integration, and equal opportunity as we strive to achieve an inclusive environment at our facilities. Indoor and outdoor facilities offer accessible features and supports, including:
- Accessible splash pads with change room facilities and parking
- Beavermead Beach has a beach access mat that provides a walkway across the sand into the water, improving accessibility for everyone
- The outdoor gym in the northwest side of Beavermead Park adjacent to the beach has wheelchair accessible station offers upper body cycling, shoulder stability, abdominal strength exercises, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, and leg extension exercises.
- Neighbourhood parks with accessible playground equipment
- Walking track, PoolPod lift, and accessible fitness equipment at the Sport & Wellness Centre
Accessibility at the Sport and Wellness Centre
The Sport & Wellness Centre offers a number of accessible features throughout the facility, including:
- Accessible parking, located at each main entrance, with ramp access and heated sidewalks
- Push button door accessibility
- Oversized washrooms, changing stalls, and hallways
- One-level access to all programming areas, including the gymnasiums and multipurpose spaces
- Accessible fitness equipment
The portable pool pod installed at the Peterborough Sport and Wellness Centre helps accessibility for people with mobility impairments to independently get in and out of the pool.
The universal change room, equipped with large changing stalls, a lift, accessible showers and washrooms, enters onto the pool deck with a short distance to the Therapy pool ramp and Leisure pool PoolPod accessible lift.
The Therapy pool has a ramp access with water wheelchairs provided. The Leisure pool provides entry with use of the Pool Pod, an accessible lift that can be used for those with limited mobility, or with a wheelchair.
Contact Us
City Hall
500 George St. N.
Peterborough, ON
K9H 3R9
Phone: 705-742-7777
Toll Free: 1-855-738-3755
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