Campus Recreation
Welcome to Campus Recreation
With so many recreation opportunities, you can stay fit, have fun, reduce stress, learn a new sport, or explore the outdoors. The Penn State student fee gives you access to most of our recreation spaces so find your challenge and get moving.
Our Commitment to the Penn State Community
Thank you for your continued understanding and patience as we put our protocols in place to provide you opportunities to be active in our facilities. We’ve been working hard to create spaces with distanced equipment and protocols that will reduce potential exposure with capacity limits. Additionally, we’re creating a reservation system that will help us meet new capacity requirements. While all of this behind the scenes work is going on, we are still running our virtual programming to help you stay active and engaged over the summer. Find all of our virtual programming with just one click on the above Virtual Programming button.
While our recreation centers, pools, and courts remain closed, we’re working on timelines to open each facility with new safety and distancing expectations. The announcement about a return to campus is great news for our planning efforts. Our staff has been working diligently to plan for a safe return to all of our facilities and program areas. Here are some highlights:
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This fall will be unprecedented, on campus and in our facilities and programs. Some equipment and facilities will look different as we space things out to accommodate distancing. You may find equipment and activities in some interesting spots! Classes and programs will have capacity limits and will be appropriately timed to allow for cleaning and disinfecting of rooms and equipment according to new standards. Individual spaces and rooms will have capacity limits and we will likely require individual reservations for access.
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Have you been to Stone Valley lately? The parking lot gates are open, and Lake Perez is beautiful this time of year. Take advantage of the lake and miles of trails. Currently, boat rentals and cabins are not available, but you can still enjoy a great day in nature at Stone Valley.
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When we are able to open the IM Building and our other facilities we will do so with our students', patrons', and staffs’ health and safety as our highest priority. Currently we’re creating cleaning, capacity, and spacing protocols as well as building navigation to minimize, as best we can, contact with other individuals.
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We will have more to come in regard to membership reactivation after we are able to more fully understand our facility capacity limitations and how those might affect our ability to serve our students and members.
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New this fall - ShakeSmart, a new healthy food option, will be located in the IM Building be scheduled to open when the IM Building opens for our students and patrons. A second ShakeSmart location in the White Building will open in the early fall.
Your wellbeing is important to us – just as important now as it has been since our first days of being remote. To that end we will continue to offer a robust schedule of live fitness classes via Instagram each week and have a library of over 100 fitness videos on our YouTube playlist. Check out or ESports leagues, virtual personal training, and outdoor trip planning assistance to continue your active pursuits. The best way to keep up to date with everything is via our social media channels.
Thank you for your understanding and engaging with us during the last few months. All of our plans have you in mind and we can’t wait to see you again. We will continue to update this page as we have new information to share.
Facility Hours
At this time, all Campus Recreation facilities are closed.
A picture ID and valid Campus Recreation Membership are required for admission. Hours are subject to change. All changes will be posted in the affected facility.
