Recreation Master Plan

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The City of St. John’s recognizes that recreation facilities, spaces, and programs are critical community assets and services that contribute to residents’ quality of life and provide opportunities for residents to connect with each other and their community. High quality recreation opportunities are fundamentally important to create a vibrant community.

To support the delivery of quality recreation opportunities, the City is completing a Recreation Master Plan (the Plan) to proactively manage the current and future investment in recreation opportunities. The Plan will be an innovative and progressive roadmap to guide the delivery of recreation services for the City, community partners, and residents for 10-plus years and will provide a long-term vision that will be a foundation for planning and decision-making. It will also include actionable recommendations that will build on the City’s current strengths in the provision of recreation facilities, programs, and services for residents.

There are many opportunities for the community to provide input throughout the project. Use the ideas or mapping tools below to leave your feedback, check out the key dates for a meeting or pop up event near you or take a few minutes to complete the survey.


The City of St. John’s recognizes that recreation facilities, spaces, and programs are critical community assets and services that contribute to residents’ quality of life and provide opportunities for residents to connect with each other and their community. High quality recreation opportunities are fundamentally important to create a vibrant community.

To support the delivery of quality recreation opportunities, the City is completing a Recreation Master Plan (the Plan) to proactively manage the current and future investment in recreation opportunities. The Plan will be an innovative and progressive roadmap to guide the delivery of recreation services for the City, community partners, and residents for 10-plus years and will provide a long-term vision that will be a foundation for planning and decision-making. It will also include actionable recommendations that will build on the City’s current strengths in the provision of recreation facilities, programs, and services for residents.

There are many opportunities for the community to provide input throughout the project. Use the ideas or mapping tools below to leave your feedback, check out the key dates for a meeting or pop up event near you or take a few minutes to complete the survey.


  • What We Heard released

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    At the Tuesday, June 25h, 2024 regular meeting of Council, staff shared What We Heard through the public engagement project.

    Highlights of What We Heard include:

    • Participants highly valued recreation services and expressed a desire for more neighbourhood-level facilities and services.

    • Ensuring affordability should be a focus on future planning, along with enhancing accessibility and inclusive opportunities.

    • The most popular indoor activities included swimming, walking, fitness training, and fitness classes.

    • Outdoor activities favoured by participants included hiking/walking, gardening, and swimming.

    • Participants believed working with community partners, including sport and recreation organizations, schools and educational institutions, and health and social organizations, was important.

    • Inconvenient programming times, lack of information sharing and awareness, transportation and programs not being offered in desired neighborhoods were identified as barriers to participation.

    Promotional efforts resulted in 1,670 visits to this project page. Participants could provide feedback and ask questions on the project page, participate in a meeting or pop-up event or take a survey. In total, over 1,700 people provided feedback through either surveys, the project page, email, phone, pop-up events or meetings. Representatives from community groups and City committees and working groups were also consulted.

    The consultant will now draft the plan which will be brought to Council and shared with the public in the Fall.

  • We Want to Hear From You!

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    Resident Survey Now Open

    We need your input to help shape the future of recreation in St. John's. Gathering input from residents is critical to the development of the Recreation Master Plan, as your thoughts and opinions are essential to this project and setting future priorities for recreation services.

    Please complete the resident survey through this link.

    If you have any questions regarding this survey and the Recreation Master Plan or if you need assistance completing the survey, please contact Carla Squires (City Project Lead) at csquires@stjohns.ca or Meaghan Carey (Project Consultant) at carey@rcstrategies.ca or call 311. This document is available in alternate format upon request, including braille.

Page last updated: 28 Jun 2024, 04:26 PM