Who we serve Parks and recreation
Websites for park districts and recreation departments.
Families come to find a park, sign up for a program and reserve a shelter or a field.
Fennick Valley Park District is fictional, an example site by LFW.
What residents come to do.
Registration opens and the whole town arrives at once. The site has to send them to the right class in two clicks.
Find a park
Every park and trail with amenities, accessible features, hours and rules, filterable by what you want to do.
Register for programs
Classes, camps, leagues and swim lessons, linked straight into your registration system, with the season’s guide as pages.
Reserve a shelter or field
Shelters, fields and rooms with photos, capacity, fees and the booking link.
Field and pool status
Open, closed or delayed, updated by staff from a phone when the weather turns.
Fee help and inclusion
Fee assistance and adaptive programs explained before the registration form, so a family asks instead of giving up.
Master plan and board
Surveys, the master plan and commission meetings, so residents see what the levy pays for.
What the law expects.
The rules that shape this kind of site, each linked to its source. We read them before we build, and your counsel has the last word.
-
ADA Title II web rule
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA, special districts included, and so must the documents posted on them.
- Public entities with a total population of 50,000 or more.
- Smaller public entities and special district governments.
Dates from the Department of Justice’s interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (Federal Register 2026-07663).
-
Open meetings
A public board posts notice and an agenda before it meets. Each state’s open-meetings law sets how far ahead and where, and the rules differ by state.
Source: Open Government Guide, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The example site.
Fictional, built by LFW, with the tasks above on its homepage.
-
Fennick Valley Park District
Find a park, register, reserve a shelter. Larger screenshot of Fennick Valley Park District
Built in.
LFW’s plugins for WordPress, free as each is released, chosen for what this kind of site does.
-
LFW Filters
Open source on GitHub
Filter parks by playground, trail, dog park or accessible restroom, with a filter that works by keyboard.
-
LFW Events Calendar
Built, not public yet
Programs, special events and board meetings, with a calendar feed families add to their phones.
-
LFW Multilingual
Built, not public yet
The program guide and fee help in the languages your families read.
-
LFW Search
Built, not public yet
Finds “swim lessons” or “pavilion rental” from any page.
Courses for your staff.
Free in LFW Academy, self-paced. No account needed to start.
- Staff who update programs each season Running a Public Website Day to Day About 2 hours, in eight lessons with tasks on your own site.
- Whoever writes program descriptions Writing for Residents About 45 minutes, in six short lessons.
- Whoever posts closures and heat advisories Emergency Notices on Your Website About 90 minutes, in six lessons ending in a drill.
- Staff who post the program guide Accessible Content Basics About an hour, in seven lessons.
Moving your park district off a platform.
What the agreements say about renewal, notice and your data, and what moving takes, step by step.
What it costs.
Prices are the same for every kind of public institution.
Care, $250 a month
Updates and security patches, off-site backups, uptime checked every minute and broken links found daily. Cancel any time.
A site you made, kept
A site you make yourself in your browser is already built, so there is no setup fee: Care starts the month you keep it.
Projects, at a fixed price
An accessibility audit and fix plan is $3,500; a district rebuild is $9,500. Larger scopes and RFPs are quoted in writing.
Make a site for your park district, then keep it.
Make one in your browser and look around first. When you want to keep it, all we need is your email.
Check your inbox. If the address can receive mail, a link is on its way.