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Parks and Recreation
Harlingen has 15 city parks featuring soccer, softball, tennis, baseball, swimming, playgrounds, picnic areas, indoor hockey pavilion, hike/bike trail, nature parks and lakes.The Harlingen Parks and Recreation Department strives to provide quality recreation and special interest programs for the growing Harlingen community. They have a diversified year-round recreation program consisting of a variety of activities. Special events, such as hosting flag football, basketball, softball, golf and volleyball tournaments, an Easter Egg Hunt, youth track meets, and fishing seminars are among the variety of special event throughout the year.
Aside from enjoying the 15 parks the City of Harlingen has to offer, there are other avenues of recreation:
- Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum
- Harlingen Municipal Auditorium
- Harlingen Performing Arts Theatre
- Iwo Jima Memorial Monument
- Riofest
- Jackson Street Jubilee
- RGV Birding Festival
- Valley Race Park
- Sandy beaches of South Padre Island
- Gladys Porter Zoo
- Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
- Schlitterbahn Water Park
- Other Valley Attractions