Senior Center: The Ypsilanti Senior Center is located in Recreation Park, at 1015 North Congress Street. The center is open daily for fitness activities, crafts, cooking classes, meals, and social events. Additionally, the Center hosts meetings and events for various neighborhood and community groups. The Center maintains a website at http://ypsiseniorcenter.com.
Rutherford Municipal Pool: The Rutherford Municipal Pool is located at the eastern end of Recreation Park, at 975 North Congress Street. The pool provides for open swimming and lap swimming from early June to early September each summer, as well as occasional activities such as Euchre nights, CPR training, and water polo.
Parkridge Community Center: The Parkridge Community Center, located at 591 Armstrong Court in the northwest corner of Parkridge Park, offers recreational and educational programs to Ypsilanti youth, with a focus on after-school and summer activities. A broad variety of community organizations provide programming at Parkridge, including Growing Hope and MSU Extension.
Freighthouse: The Freighthouse, next to Frog Island Park on the north side of Depot Town, has in the past been used as a community center, hosting the Depot Town Farmers Market, a café, and various community meetings and events. Its physical condition, however, forced its closure in 2004. Through various grants and private fundraising, the Friends of the Ypsilanti Freighthouse, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, have raised money for a Condition Assessment Report (CAR) and various repairs. The Friends group continues to seek funding through grants and donations for capital repairs. The Freighthouse is part of the Ypsilanti Historic District, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Sites.
Farmer’s Markets: Ypsilanti has two seasonal farmer’s markets that serve educational and recreational needs in additional to nutritional. The longer-running farmer’s market, outside the Freighthouse in Depot Town, is held on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. A second farmer’s market was started downtown in the 2006, operating Tuesday afternoons in the Key Bank Building parking lot at Hamilton and Ferris Streets. The markets offer fresh fruits and vegetables, plants, flowers, meats, bread and other baked goods, and craft items. The Ypsilanti Health Coalition, Growing Hope, and the Ypsilanti Food Co-op are active in the markets along with growers.
