If you drove over to Turtle Run Park this month expecting to find the pickleball courts everyone in the neighborhood has been posting about, you found tennis courts, a new playground, and no pickleball nets anywhere in sight. That's not a mistake on your part. The courts are real, they're open, and they're not actually inside Turtle Run Park at all.
They're next door.
Two Different Addresses, One Renovation Story
Turtle Run Park sits at 6400 Wiles Rd, an 8.8-acre neighborhood park with a baseball and softball field, a half basketball court, a sand volleyball court, restrooms, and a pavilion. That's where the city's recent work went into resurfacing the tennis courts and installing a new interactive playground structure, part of a renovation the city lists as completed in April 2026.
The six new pickleball courts, the ones generating most of the buzz, were built about a block away at Forest Glen Middle School, 6501 Turtle Run Blvd, through an agreement between the city and Broward County Public Schools. It was a $70,100 project, and the courts opened months before the rest of the park's facelift wrapped up, back in November 2025.
So the pickleball hype and the park renovation are two separate projects that happened to land in the same small stretch of Coral Springs within about six months of each other. Locals talking about "the new courts at Turtle Run" are usually talking about a school parking lot's worth of asphalt, not the park proper.
What's Actually Sitting Inside the Park
If you're heading to Turtle Run Park itself, here's what changed:
- Three resurfaced tennis courts, replacing the older surface
- A new playground with an interactive structure for kids
- The existing baseball/softball field, half basketball court, sand volleyball court, and pavilion, unchanged
What's a Short Walk Away at Forest Glen Middle
The pickleball courts are on school property, which means the access rules are different from a standard city park. According to Robert Hunter, the city's director of parks and recreation, the courts are open to the public outside of school hours and on weekends. Forest Glen's own posted school hours run roughly 9:20 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. on class days, so in practice that means the courts are yours after the school day ends on weekdays, and all day on Saturday and Sunday. Because it's a working middle school campus rather than a park, it's worth a quick call to the city's parks department before you load up the car if you're planning around a school holiday or an early dismissal day, since access can shift with the school calendar in ways a standalone park never would.
In its report, Coral Springs Talk quoted Robert Hunter, the city's director of parks and recreation: "We have a very nice park, and the community came together to make improvements."
That's Hunter's summary of the whole effort, and it undersells how many different organizations had to agree to make six pickleball courts happen on a middle school campus.
Four Partners in One Project
The Forest Glen courts didn't happen because the city decided to build them. They happened because the Turtle Run Foundation, the Turtle Run Community Development District, Broward County Public Schools, and the City of Coral Springs all contributed to the same project. The specific dollar amount each partner kicked in hasn't been disclosed. That kind of multi-party funding is normal for amenities inside a CDD-governed neighborhood like Turtle Run, where the community development district, a homeowner-facing foundation, and city hall all have a hand in what gets built and where.
The Timeline, In Order
For anyone trying to figure out why some of this feels old news and some of it feels brand new, the sequence matters. The pickleball courts at Forest Glen opened first, back in November 2025. The tennis resurfacing and the new playground inside Turtle Run Park itself weren't finished until this spring, with the city marking the broader renovation complete in April 2026. If you've been playing pickleball at Forest Glen since last fall, the rest of the park only caught up to you a few months ago.
Where to Eat After You Play
If a few games of pickleball or a set of tennis leaves you hungry, there's a new option a short drive down University Drive. The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill held its ribbon-cutting on September 1, 2026, at 2764 N. University Drive, hosted by the Coral Springs Coconut Creek Regional Chamber of Commerce. It's the first Coral Springs location for a franchise with about 20 spots around Florida, and the menu runs through gyros, souvlaki plates, Greek salad wraps, and a lamb steak the restaurant's partners point to as a standout. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, so it lines up easily with an evening pickleball session or a weekend match on the resurfaced tennis courts.
The Version Worth Remembering
Turtle Run's amenity upgrade this year wasn't one project, it was two, run by different institutions on different timelines, sitting close enough together that most people talking about it don't realize they're describing two different pieces of ground. The park got its tennis courts and playground back this spring. The pickleball courts belong to Forest Glen Middle School, they've been open since last November, and they come with school-hours restrictions that a regular city park never would. Knowing which is which saves you a wasted trip and explains why the same conversation about "the new courts" sounds a little different depending on who's telling it.
If you're curious about what else is shifting in the Turtle Run pocket of Coral Springs, or you just want a second opinion on how a neighborhood like this one actually functions day to day, Andrew Ferreira is always glad to talk it through.
