What this is
The Court Scout is a researched directory of racquet-sport courts — pickleball, padel and more. We exist because the directories that currently rank for "pickleball courts near me" are stitched together from scrapes, and they get the basics wrong: placeholder phone numbers, ghost venues, court counts pulled from thin air.
We do it differently. Every facility on this site is rebuilt from a primary source — the venue's own website, its Google Business Profile, or a phone call. Each listing carries a verification status and a last-checked date. When sources disagree, we record the disagreement openly in the notes rather than picking the most flattering number.
By the numbers
- 2502+ facilities researched across 788+ cities in 51 US states and 147 international regions — and growing.
- 298 listings first-party verified so far; the rest are sourced leads marked "needs verification" until we confirm them.
- Court counts are never guessed. If we don't know, the listing says so.
- Permanently closed venues are excluded from the live site but kept in the underlying data for history.
How a listing earns "verified"
A listing graduates to verified when its address, court count, surface, access (free/paid/membership) and current operating status are confirmed against a first-party source — usually the venue's own website, occasionally a direct phone call. We then stamp the date. Anything not yet first-party confirmed is clearly labeled — we don't paper over uncertainty.
Google reviews — how we use them
Ratings come from the official Google Places API; we never scrape Google Maps. We store only the place_id long-term and treat ratings as a cache — anything older than 90 days is automatically hidden. Ratings are shown with a visible "via Google" credit, and we do not republish them as our own aggregateRating markup.
Who runs it
The Court Scout is built and maintained by the team behind Pickleland — a working pickleball club in Pflugerville, TX. We built this because we live in the space and were tired of sending players to clubs that had closed two years ago. Pickleland appears as a Featured club in the Austin-metro pages where it serves players; that placement is clearly labeled and never displaces the merit-ranked listings below it.
Help us improve it
Spotted a venue we're missing, or a detail that's wrong? Suggest an edit or add a court — submissions go into the verification queue and typically publish within 48 hours.