Twin Lakes Sports Park

Twin Lakes Sports Park is the home of Bloomington Parks and Recreation's spring, summer and fall adult softball leagues, and hosts softball tournaments for players of all ages.

Quick Park Information

• Features: four lighted ballfields with 300' fences, playground with Fibar surface that is open when fields are in play, one-mile natural surface trail through woods west of the ballfield complex, concession stand open during weekend tournaments.
• Ballfields: Email Cody Martin ([email protected]) or call 812-349-3774 to check availability or rent a ballfield or sports field.
• Parking: Asphalt-surface vehicle parking for about 300 vehicles, with nine designated handicap spaces. Entrance to the park is an asphalt drive on the north side of Bloomfield Road.
• Restrooms: Designated male and female restrooms located on either side of the score tower in the center of the park. Restrooms are approximately 400' from the park entrance via a concrete walkway. There is a drinking fountain with a bottle filler at the easternmost score tower, and a drinking fountain at the western score tower. Drinking fountains and restrooms are available seasonally when fields are in use.
• Bloomington Transit: #4W stops at Bloomfield Road and Rolling Ridge Way. Bus route maps and schedules.
• Property rules and hours of operation for Bloomington's city parks
• List of all reservable picnic shelters in city parks.

Accessibility

• A concrete walkway connects the parking lot to the interior of the sports park, with about 475' of concrete walkway from the furthest designated accessible parking space to the score tower. 
• Shaded bleachers are located along the first and third base lines of each of the four ballfields, with additional spectator bench seating located behind home plate. 
• An upper level deck surrounding the score tower can be accessed only via stairs. 
• The interior of the sports park, with the exception of the ballfields themselves, has a concrete surface.

Twin Lakes Sports Park Rules

• Twin Lakes Sports park is a tobacco-, vaping-, and alcohol-free facility.
• Glass containers of any kind are prohibited.
• Children under the age of 8 years must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
• Pets are not permitted.
  • We welcome service dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability. The provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship is not the type of "work or tasks" considered in the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition of service animal. (28 C.F.R. § 35.104; 28 C.F.R. § 35.136)

History

Twin Lakes Sports Park was not always Bloomington's premier softball tournament destination! A reservoir was built on the property in 1892, where the ballfields now sit. It was known as "Upper Twin Lake." Upper Twin Lake and Lower Twin Lake, built in 1905 just across Bloomfield Road, were temporary water supplies for the city.

Deed records show that 13 acres of property were purchased from Otis Huff and Myrtle Huff in 1922, but the park is not mentioned again in meetings of the Board of Park Commissioners until the early 1970s. The Rotary Club in 1972 took on the "Twin Lake Area" as a community project, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources was asked to manage the lake by cleaning it up and restocking it for fishing. "Twin Lake" was renamed "Rotary Community Park" in 1973, but it is not known exactly what the Rotarians did in the park area surrounding the lake.

A letter to the Board of Park Commissioners dated March 16, 1979 stated the area known as "Rotary Park" had not been associated with the Rotary Club for some time, and the Rotary Club would no longer provide financial or physical support. Eventually, the lake was drained and development of the Twin Lakes Sports Park began in 1990.

The Parks and Recreation Department hosted its first Amateur Softball Association national softball tournament in 1993 when Twin Lakes Sports Park officially opened.