Recreation
From adult to youth programs, Chautauqua has embraced the recreative experience and a healthy lifestyle as essential to the Chautauqua experience. Recreational opportunities include sailing, boating, fishing and swimming on Chautauqua Lake as well as a 36-hole golf course, fast-dry and hard-surface tennis courts, playing fields, playgrounds and fitness centers.
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Whether you’re returning to the familiar joy of Gentle Yoga with Kate Junker or Wine Tasting with Sam Whitmore, or exploring something new—like gluten-free baking with Om Nohm’s Jessamine Daly-Griffen or crafting a CLSC Graduation Hat with Toby Schermerhorn—this summer’s catalog is filled with opportunities to learn, connect, and rediscover the rhythms of a Chautauqua summer.
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Chautauqua Health & Fitness Center
Chautauqua Health & Fitness is dedicated to helping you succeed, whatever your health and fitness goals: weight loss, increased flexibility, sports training, muscle toning, medical rehab, stress reduction, or general fitness and conditioning.
Chautauqua Golf Club
The attraction to Chautauqua remains the same today as it has been throughout the years — a golf experience built on service and quality; a golf experience designed for challenge and the enjoyment of this great game; a golf experience mindful of the importance of environmental stewardship; and, with two four-star rated courses, a golf experience that offers real choice and variety.
Sports Club
Chautauqua Sports Club offers a wide variety of recreational and leisure activities such as kayak, canoe, standup paddleboards and paddle boat rentals and shuffleboard.
Swimming
With an extensive and scenic waterfront, Chautauqua has always celebrated its connection to the lake, and swimming has remained a popular past-time. The 25 yard indoor pool at the Turner Community Center is open daily throughout the year for lap swimming, open family swims and private rentals.
Tennis Center
The Chautauqua Tennis Center is located directly behind the Turner Community Center on Route 394 and boasts eight state-of-the-art, fast-dry courts and two pickleball courts.
Sailing
Chautauqua’s Sailing Department presents a comprehensive curriculum of one-week sailing courses. The courses have been carefully designed to advance the sailing skills of all — youth to adult and novice to advanced sailors.
CHQ Trail
The CHQ Trail is closed for the winter season and will reopen May 1, 2025.
The trail is open to the public from sunrise to sunset all spring, summer and fall for recreational and educational purposes, including hiking, birdwatching and play.
Any not-for-profit organizations interested in hosting an event should contact Nate Hammond at nhammond@chq.org.
This project was made possible through a Play Everywhere Design Challenge grant, a program run by KaBOOM! that invites communities like ours to submit creative ideas for public installations that help make play easy and available for kids and families.
Prohibited Activities
- Hunting
- Horseback riding
- Motor vehicle use
- Camping
- Fires
- Dumping