The state of Denver and Boulder courts in 2026
As of July 18, 2026, the CourtMix directory lists 3,076 published places to play racquet sports in Colorado. These are the same records behind the maps and place pages on the site, exported from the production dataset the same day. We measured court supply three ways: across the state, across the six-county Denver metro, and across Boulder County. Here is what the numbers show, and where the data still has gaps we will not paper over.
The headline numbers
Colorado has 3,076 published places to play. The Denver metro holds 1,588 of them and Boulder County holds 237. Of all 3,076 places, 1,287 report a court count, and those places carry 5,450 courts. The other 1,789 places do not list a count yet, so 5,450 is a floor rather than a total. We report a count where a place gives one and never estimate the rest.
Sport by sport
Tennis is on 2,422 of the 3,076 places. Pickleball is on 870. The two overlap at 412 places that offer both. Counting only places that report courts, tennis venues carry 4,420 courts across 1,094 places, and pickleball venues carry 1,987 courts across 367 places. Many pickleball courts sit at venues that also offer tennis, so those two figures are not additive.
The pattern holds locally. In the Denver metro, tennis appears at 1,272 places and pickleball at 419. In Boulder County, tennis appears at 190 places and pickleball at 77. Tennis is still the wider network of places in both areas, and pickleball is the faster-growing overlay on top of it.
The indoor gap
Most racquet play in Colorado is outdoors. Of the 3,076 places, 2,467 are outdoor only, 189 are indoor only, and 52 mix indoor and outdoor courts. The other 368 do not specify, so we leave them uncounted rather than guess.
The gap is sharpest in Boulder. Zero places in Boulder County are indoor tennis open to the public. Two are indoor pickleball open to the public. That lines up with what local players have said since the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center came down, which we covered in Boulder’s public indoor tennis courts are gone. The Denver metro is better but still thin: 11 places offer indoor tennis open to the public and 37 offer indoor pickleball open to the public.
Free, paid, and what we do not know about lights
Pricing is one of the better-covered fields. Across Colorado, 2,230 places are free to play, 459 charge a fee, and 321 run on membership. Only 66 places have no pricing on file. In the Denver metro, 1,157 places are free, 230 are paid, and 166 are membership. In Boulder County, 180 of the 237 places are free.
Access follows a similar shape. Statewide, 2,592 places are open to the public, 275 require a membership or day pass, 179 are private, and 17 open by appointment. Thirteen places have no access type recorded.
Lighting is the honest weak spot. We have a lighting value for 306 of the 3,076 places: 222 have lights and 84 do not. The other 2,770 places, more than nine in ten, carry no lighting data. We would rather say that plainly than publish a lit-court count that pretends to be complete.
Top cities by court count
These rankings sum reported courts by city, using the address on file. About four in ten tennis places and eight in ten pickleball places carry a parseable city, so places without an address do not appear. Denver leads tennis. Colorado Springs edges Denver on reported pickleball courts.
| City | Tennis courts | Tennis places |
|---|---|---|
| Denver | 299 | 121 |
| Colorado Springs | 115 | 64 |
| Littleton | 109 | 45 |
| Boulder | 92 | 37 |
| Lakewood | 85 | 34 |
| Fort Collins | 82 | 53 |
| Aurora | 75 | 49 |
| Arvada | 71 | 34 |
| Centennial | 55 | 37 |
| Pueblo | 51 | 14 |
| City | Pickleball courts | Pickleball places |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs | 155 | 51 |
| Denver | 150 | 83 |
| Littleton | 85 | 32 |
| Fort Collins | 71 | 27 |
| Lakewood | 61 | 22 |
| Boulder | 60 | 26 |
| Arvada | 49 | 18 |
| Aurora | 48 | 23 |
| Pueblo | 46 | 9 |
| Loveland | 42 | 14 |
How we measured this
The numbers come from the live CourtMix directory as of July 18, 2026: 3,076 published places, exported from the production dataset the same day. Every place counted here clears the same publish gate that decides what appears on the site, and the totals match the live directory exactly.
We placed every record in its county by its coordinates, so the Denver metro and Boulder County splits do not depend on address text. The Denver metro here is the six core urban counties: Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Douglas, and Jefferson. Boulder County is reported on its own. The city rankings use the address on file, which 964 of the 2,422 tennis places and 706 of the 870 pickleball places carry.
Where a field is missing, we count it as unknown and say so. Court counts exist for 1,287 places, lighting for 306, and pricing for 3,010. We do not guess the rest. Figures are current as of July 18, 2026.
Browse the same data
You can walk these numbers by area. Start with racquet sports in Denver, or go straight to tennis in Denver and pickleball in Denver. For the Boulder picture, see racquet sports in Boulder.
A few venues anchor the local counts. Denver Tennis Club and Denver Racquets Club are two of the metro’s member clubs, and East Boulder Community Center is one of the few indoor racquet venues in Boulder County open on a day pass.