Sports, Reading & More
Leisure amenities in Ellis County include:
- Four fitness trails
- Hays Aquatic Park's three pools, slides, and floating river
- Hays Public Library, recently renovated with architecture matching the original 1911 Carnegie Library
- Lighted, hard-surface tennis courts
- More than 20 public parks in three cities, many with recent improvements
- RPM Speedway - An oval track for sprint, modified, and stock car racing providing seating for 4,000 people
- Sports complexes, including more than a dozen baseball diamonds and basketball courts as well as the Hays Sport Complex, a multiple-sport facility intended as a statewide host for soccer, football, baseball, and softball
- Three golf courses:
- University facilities for college sporting events including:
- 1,200-seat baseball field, home to a baseball team that is part of the NCAA-sanctioned Jayhawk league
- 6,400-seat football stadium
- 6,800-seat basketball facility