Gyms in Cedar Park With a Basketball Court
For pickup basketball inside Cedar Park, start at the Cedar Park Recreation Center on Main Street: two full-court gymnasiums, open gym drop-in, and $20 a month on a resident membership or $10 for a guest day pass. Just over the city line, Brushy Creek Community Center in Round Rock has four full-size gyms, and The Premier Athletic Complex in Leander runs daily midday pickup on three regulation high school courts.
The other three differ in how you get onto the floor. Austin Sports Center on Toro Grande and Court Vision on Brushy Creek Road sell court time by the hour and have no court-access membership, which suits a team or a coach booking practice more than someone hoping to find a game. Twin Lakes Family YMCA sits in between: its one full-size gym comes with membership, in a building that also holds two pools and a gymnastics gym.
Our picks
- Lowest published rate inside the city limits: Cedar Park Recreation Center. $20 a month for a resident or $10 for a guest day pass, with two full-court gymnasiums on a weekly posted gym schedule.
- Most indoor courts: Brushy Creek Community Center. Four full-size gymnasiums in Round Rock, and a resident individual rate that works out to $17.50 a month on the 12-month plan.
- Best for a midday pickup run: The Premier Athletic Complex. Midday pickup basketball runs on a daily open gym schedule, and a guest pass is $25 without a member.
- Best for booking a floor for a team: Austin Sports Center - Cedar Park. Three 85-by-50-foot courts at $60 to $150 an hour each, or $340 to $400 an hour for the whole building.
- Best if the rest of the family wants to swim: Twin Lakes Family YMCA. Court time comes with membership, alongside an indoor pool, a warm water therapy pool, a gymnastics gym and a teen center.
At a glance
| Option | Monthly Membership | Address | Facility Type | Court Access | Indoor Courts | Weekday Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20source | 1435 Main Street, Cedar Park, TX 78613source | Public recreation centersource | Open gym drop-insource | 2source | Mon-Thu 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Fri 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.source | |
| 204 E. Little Elm Trl., Cedar Park, TX 78613source | Nonprofit family YMCAsource | Included with membershipsource | 1source | Mon-Fri 5am to 9pmsource | ||
| 1420 Toro Grande Blvd, Cedar Park, TX 78613source | Private sports complexsource | Hourly court rentalsource | 3source | No set hours; open when a court is bookedsource | ||
| $40source | 8220 183A Toll Road, Leander, TX 78641source | Private sports complexsource | Open gym drop-insource | 3source | Daily 11am to 8pmsource | |
| $17.5source | 16318 Great Oaks Drive, Round Rock, TX 78681source | Public recreation centersource | Open gym drop-insource | 4source | Mon-Fri 5:30am to 9pmsource | |
| 300 Brushy Creek Road, Suite 503, Cedar Park, TX 78613source | Basketball training gymsource | Hourly court rentalsource |
Open gym drop-in or hourly court rental
Three places let you walk in and play: the Cedar Park Recreation Center, Brushy Creek Community Center and The PAC. None of them promises a free court at a given hour. The rec center posts its gym schedule weekly and shares the floor with programs and rentals, Brushy Creek posts open gym monthly and runs it half or full court depending on demand, and The PAC keeps its pickup to a daily midday slot.
The court counts are not one unit either. Austin Sports Center's three are 85-by-50-foot courts on one convertible floor, open only when someone has booked them. The PAC's three are regulation high school courts that split into six youth courts. Court Vision rents its gym at $125 an hour but is built around one-on-one and small-group training, with no court count or hours published.
Playing before work or after 9pm
For an early game, the Cedar Park Recreation Center and Twin Lakes Family YMCA both open at 5am on weekdays, and Brushy Creek follows at 5:30am. The rec center is also the late option, staying open until 10pm Monday through Thursday and 9pm on Friday, while the Y and Brushy Creek close at 9pm. The PAC keeps shorter days, 11am to 8pm.
What the monthly rate covers
The three membership prices are not the same kind of number. The rec center's $20 is a resident individual rate, and non-residents pay double at every tier. Brushy Creek's $17.50 is the monthly share of a 12-month credit card contract, plus a $25 activation fee, with non-residents at $30. The PAC's $40 is a family membership on a 12-month minimum with a one-time $100 registration fee, and it includes the workout room. The YMCA's rate only appears once you start its online signup.
The options in detail
Cedar Park Recreation Center
The city's own 47,500-square-foot recreation center on Main Street, and the default answer for pickup basketball in Cedar Park: two full-court gymnasiums that also stripe for pickleball and volleyball, plus cardio and weight areas, an elevated walking track and drop-in child care. Court time runs on a gym schedule posted weekly, so open play shares the floor with programs and rentals and it is worth checking before you drive over. A resident individual membership is $20 a month and a guest day pass is $10. Non-residents pay double at every tier.
Twin Lakes Family YMCA
A full-service family Y off Little Elm Trail whose full-size gymnasium sits alongside an indoor pool, a warm water therapy pool, a gymnastics gym, a sauna and a teen center, so basketball is one piece of a much larger building. Court time comes with membership rather than a drop-in fee, and the Y runs its own fall youth basketball league. The catch for price shoppers: the YMCA of Central Texas quotes rates through an online calculator instead of publishing a price list, so you will not see your number until you start a signup. Weekday doors open at 5am.
Austin Sports Center - Cedar Park
A 20,000-square-foot hardwood barn on Toro Grande built for booked court time rather than walk-in workouts. The main floor converts to three 85-by-50-foot basketball or futsal courts, and an annex added in 2023 has room for one more. There is no membership and no posted opening hours, because the building is only open when someone has reserved it: a single court runs $60 to $150 an hour depending on date, time and what else is happening, and renting the whole facility is $340 to $400 an hour. A mezzanine with tables and free internet makes it a comfortable place to sit through a tournament.
The Premier Athletic Complex
The PAC sits on 183A a few minutes north of Cedar Park and is the closest thing in the area to a purpose-built basketball house: three regulation high school courts that reconfigure into six youth courts, six tournament volleyball courts or nine practice volleyball courts, on hardwood. It is also the rare local court facility with a real drop-in culture, running midday pickup basketball and volleyball on a daily open gym schedule; a guest pass is $15 with a member and $25 without one. Family membership is $40 a month on a 12-month minimum plus a one-time $100 registration fee, and includes the 2,200-square-foot workout room. Doors are open 11am to 8pm.
Brushy Creek Community Center
The Brushy Creek MUD's community center is a short drive east of Cedar Park and holds more indoor basketball than anything inside the city limits: four full-size gymnasiums, plus two racquetball courts, a weight room, an indoor walking track and free group fitness classes across 60,000 square feet of recreation space. Open gym runs on a monthly posted schedule, uses half or full court depending on demand, and is open to any member or guest, with non-members paying for a guest pass. Memberships are sold as annual or three-month contracts rather than month to month: a resident individual works out to $17.50 a month on the 12-month credit card plan, a non-resident individual $30, both plus a $25 activation fee.
Court Vision
A dedicated basketball gym on Brushy Creek Road, run by trainer Logan Blow and built around one-on-one and small-group skill work for youth, high school and college players rather than open runs. It is not a drop-in gym, but the floor can be booked on its own: a one-hour gym rental is $125. Ongoing class memberships run $175 a month for the Saturday elementary group and $320 a month for the Monday and Wednesday middle school and high school classes. Court Vision publishes no opening hours and no court count, so everything routes through its online booking calendar.
How we researched this
This table is indoor courts a person can get onto, so the outdoor courts at Milburn Park, Janet Bartles Park, Brushy Creek Sports Park and Vista Ridge were left out as a category. So were clubs whose own amenity lists name no court: LA Fitness on Whitestone (reviewers mention one, the club's list does not) and Gold's Gym on Cypress Creek. Crunch Fitness Cedar Park repurposed its old basketball court in a renovation, TopShot is badminton and pickleball only, Unity Recreation Center limits its programs to members of the Ismaili community, Shoot 360 in Leander publishes no court count or price, and Life Time Cedar Park has not been built. The PAC and Brushy Creek sit outside the city limits and stay in anyway: Brushy Creek holds more indoor basketball than anything inside them, and The PAC runs daily midday pickup. Their Address cells name their own cities.
Empty price cells mark places with no court-access membership to report: Austin Sports Center and Court Vision sell hours and training, and the YMCA of Central Texas shows rates only through its calculator (a $45 figure in a chamber PDF is a discounted corporate rate, so it was not used). Court Vision also publishes no hours or court count. Open gym shares the floor with programs and rentals, so the posted schedule for the week you plan to play is the one to trust.