Yardley Borough and Lower Makefield Township
Lower Makefield sets up public pickleball two ways: four dedicated courts at Memorial Park, and four courts with portable nets at Heacock Meadows. See both before you decide what your own court becomes.
Local courts
Your own court can go either way. Keep tennis, and blended lines can add up to two pickleball courts, one on each side of the net, painted a shade lighter than the court and in the same color family, as USTA guidance asks. The tennis net stays, and portable nets come out for pickleball. Or give the court to pickleball for good, resurfaced as four independent pickleball courts. Four fit as long as the corners are square and the court is the full 60 by 120 feet, so measure yours before you pick.
A Yardley mailing address doesn’t tell you which town a court stands in. Yardley Borough covers about a square mile on the Delaware River, cut through by the Delaware Canal and its towpath, and Lower Makefield Township wraps around it on the north, west and south. The Post Office gives many township addresses the city name Yardley, so this page covers both. On either side of the borough line, the work is the same: cracks filled, low spots leveled, acrylic color and texture rebuilt, lines measured and painted, tennis courts converted for pickleball.
Local conditions
Yardley Borough’s flood page says once you cross over the Delaware Canal, you’re in the floodplain. It lists river crests above major flood stage in April 2005 and June 2006. After high water, rinse off the silt; one coating maker says dirt left by standing water acts like sandpaper underfoot. Let the ground dry before any crack filling: water under a court can wick into fresh filler and weaken it.
In an average Yardley January, afternoons reach 40.7°F and nights fall to 24.1°F, by the 1991–2020 climate averages. Water in an open crack can freeze at night and thaw by afternoon, again and again, and one coating maker lists freeze-thaw among the factors in how long crack filler lasts. Check the court each spring and early fall, and refill whatever has reopened.
Yardley averages 24 to 30 inches of snow between November and April. If you clear the court, keep spud bars, scrapers and bare plow blades off it, and leave out the ice melt; one coating maker warns that salt adds abrasion that can shorten a surface’s life. Get the leaves off before the first snow, too. Left on, they can stain the color and breed mildew.
Start here
If you’re reserving pickleball courts at Memorial Park while your own tennis court sits idle, we can add blended lines for both games or convert it to pickleball for good, measured and laid out to fit.
Yardley averages 48.61 inches of precipitation a year, and USTA Middle States says pooled water leaves a court more susceptible to cracks. On a Yardley court, crack repair fills the open cracks, typically with acrylic filler, and levels the low spots where water stands.
If a flood or a hard winter left your court’s base sound but its surface tired, resurfacing rebuilds the top: silt and grime washed off, cracks filled, fresh textured color, and new lines measured and squared.
Yes. Most addresses in Lower Makefield Township read Yardley, even though they sit outside the borough, and we work on both sides of that line. We cover the rest of Bucks County too. When you call Bill at 215-251-2984, give him the street and tell him what’s bothering you about the court.
USTA guidance for public sites limits its blended-line recommendation to sites with two or fewer tennis courts. With three or more, it asks that every effort go first to separate courts for each sport, or to other paved space, and an HOA board can weigh it the same way. Memorial Park in Lower Makefield has both: three tennis courts and four dedicated pickleball courts. On any court you do blend, the limit is two pickleball courts, one on each side of the net.
Acrylic color coats need 50°F or warmer, and USTA Middle States wants that held for a full day after the color goes down. Yardley’s 1991–2020 climate averages put the typical nightly low above 50°F from May through September, so those months are the safest bets. April and October work on the right days. November’s average high is 55.9°F, so late work waits on a warm spell. Call Bill at 215-251-2984 over the winter to plan around those months.