Parks chief seeks solution to pickleball-tennis conflict

As long as there have been shared tennis-pickleball courts in Camas, there have been clashes — among players vying for more court time, neighbors tired of hearing the recognizable “thwack” of a pickleball racket hitting the ball, and other park users frustrated by crowded parking lots and what they say are an influx of out-of-state pickleball players.

“The biggest problem that we see with the current arrangement and situation is that most of the pickleball players are from elsewhere,” Camas residents and Grass Valley Park tennis court users Myles Crawley and Nikki Zhu said in an email sent in early May to Camas Communications Director Bryan Rachal. “They throw their trash all over the courts and leave empty water bottles, clothing, broken folding chairs and other personal items lying around.”