Shaw Park provides both open space and active recreation opportunities for residents.

Visitor's Center – Recreation

Swimming Pool and Shaw Park

The Beaver Public Swimming Pool offers a diving board and spraying fountain, concession stand, changing rooms and a separate baby pool area.  Additionally, the Beaver Area School District offers evening swimming opportunities to residents at its nearby indoor pool facility.  The large picnic shelter offers outdoor grilling facilities, vending machines, two beach sand volleyball courts, and five tennis courts. For hours and rates click here or call 724-773-6707.

Run, walk, bike, or just relax on a bench along River Road’s linear park.

Parks and Recreation

With nearly 5% of the Town acreage dedicated to public park use and open space, outdoor recreation is within a few blocks from nearly everywhere in
the Borough.  One of the Town’s outstanding features is the 1.3-mile riverside park overlooking the Ohio River.  The park stretches the length of the Borough and is a popular regional gathering place for runners, walkers, bikers and rollerbladers.  The linear park’s panoramic backdrop of the pristine undeveloped hillsides across the Ohio River is matchless in this part of
western PA.

New skateboard park is wildly popular with bladers and boarders. Copyright © 2007 Emmanuel Panagiotakis.

Brady's Run Park

Just four miles north of Beaver is Brady’s Run Park, a wonderfully diverse, 2,000-acre facility featuring a 28-acre lake for boating, fishing and swimming.  It is a setting for many annual festivals and geared for year-round family fun featuring recreational facilities including the following:

- Indoor ice-skating rink               
- Indoor tennis courts
- Outdoor in-line roller hockey rink
- Walking/Running (Indoors & Outdoors)
- New large and small dog parks
- Horseshoe courts
- Horse arena and trails
- 14-miles of mountain biking trails
- New skateboard park