Cooperstown and vicinity is a playground for its visitors and residents alike. The village alone is home to five beautiful parks, including Fairy Spring Park (Located on County Route 31), Three Mile Point Park (Located 3 miles East on Route 80), Council Rock Park (Located at River & Lake Street), Pioneer Park (Located at Main & Pioneer Streets), and Badger Park (Located on Beaver Street). Lakefront Park, on the southern shore of Otsego Lake has a boating launch and docks nearby. It is the annual host for Cooperstown's July Fourth fireworks. The Cooperstown Community Band has an extensive series of concerts here in the summer. Visit www.cooperstownny.org and click on the Parks page.

The Clark Sports Center features a large gym floor, swimming and diving pools, indoor track, racquetball and squash courts, locker rooms, conference room, saunas, extensive playing fields, eight bowling lanes, tennis courts, sand volleyball, fitness center and aerobics room. It has been a physical fitness tradition in Cooperstown since 1891. The Center offers a wide variety of membership options for its facilites and leagues, and day passes for the general public.

Just a short ride north of the village, Glimmerglass State Park offers year round recreation from swimming and fishing to cross-country skiing and snow tubing. For the more adventurous there is horseback riding at local stables and hiking in our state forests. There are three golf courses in the immediate Cooperstown area, and several boat rental opportunities.

South of the village on state Route 28, there is a recreational fun park which offers go-karts, bumper boats, a nine stall batting cage, mini-golf, full arcade, pizzeria, ice-cream parlor. It is open daily during the summer season. A miniature golf course is also nearby. Cooperstown Dreams Park, a summer baseball camp, attracts thousands of young people and their families for tournament play on a multi-acre campus of baseball fields and dormitories.

Each Memorial Day weekend over 50,000 people visit Cooperstown and the region for the General Clinton Canoe Regatta, the longest flat water canoe race in the world! The race begins at the beautiful and famous Council Rock Park, ending 70 miles away, in Bainbridge.