Massillon Recreation Center

The Massillon Recreation Center is a city-run recreation facility in downtown Massillon, Ohio, operated by the City of Massillon Parks & Recreation and serving as the downtown trailhead for the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath. For private events, the center's community banquet rooms host birthday parties, showers, rehearsal dinners, and meetings for up to 72 guests each, or 144 when the two rooms are opened into a single space, with a warming kitchen equipped with a stove, microwave, and refrigerator/freezer. Two additional multipurpose rooms each accommodate 72 guests. Rooms are available after hours with a three-hour minimum, and alcoholic beverages are permitted for rentals when private security is provided. Groups can also rent the full facility for all-night "lock-in" events, a fit for after-prom parties, senior all-nighters, retreats, and workshops, with use of the aquatic center's lazy river and two 19-foot water slides, the gymnasium's two regulation maple hardwood basketball courts, and a community room with kitchen. Birthday party packages pair a room rental with time in the Aquatic Center.