Three years ago I was a tennis player who laughed at pickleball. Smaller court, plastic ball, people wearing visors — it looked like retirement sport. Then my buddy dragged me to an open play session at City Park on a Tuesday night and I didn't leave for four hours.
"The dirty secret about pickleball is that it's more social than any sport I've ever played. You rotate partners every game. You end up playing with 20 different people in a single evening."
Denver has about 340 days of sunshine a year. We have parks everywhere. We have a young, active population that moves here specifically to do things outdoors. All of that created the perfect conditions for pickleball to absolutely detonate. The Denver Pickleball Club went from 200 members in 2021 to over 3,000 in 2024. Courts that were empty on weekdays are now booked solid...
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