Chaska Community Center

The Chaska Community Center (Abbreviated CCC), located in Chaska, Minnesota, is a place for local citizens to convene and socialize. The CCC features a community room, preschool, daycare, indoor play castle, two ice and turf arenas, a rehab clinic, a state-of-the-art, award-winning aquatics area, shower/locker facitities, a theatre, gallery, gymnasium, fitness center, and the Northern Lights Cafe. A few years ago the CCC celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Layout of the building

The main entrance the building is located in the center of the building. Inside is the main desk for registering and similar things, chairs, benches, and tables for commerce, a cafe for food and drink, and stairs to the lower floor, as well as windows for a panoramic view of the indoor swimming pool.

The east wing consists of the two gymnasiums for indoor sports such as basketball, one on the main floor and another below on the lower level, as well as a jogging track above them for exercise. Below the upper gym is a fitness room, completed in 2005. Farther down is a near-separate wing with a pair of ice and turf arenas for ice skating, hockey, soccer, football, and related activities. Further down is the St. Francis Rehab Clinic which offers an array of rehabilitation services and fitness programs including individualized time with therapists.

The west wing contains a daycare room, classrooms, and the theatre, as well as the appropriate rooms for costume change, stage development, and backstage storage. A senior citizen building was recently constructed there as well.

On the lower floor are the newly created fitness room, several aerobic rooms, a meeting room, and the swimming pools along with its locker rooms, as well as two raquetball courts, which can be rented at the main desk for about $5 and includes balls and rackets. There is also a medical service for children.

The swimming pool is the main attraction of the CCC. The indoor pool area contains a fitness pool for swim meets as well as general play, a shallow end for smaller children, a deeper end for diving, two waterslides, a children's play pool, two spas, and two saunas. An outdoor play pool was added in early 2006.

Recent Additions

In 2005, the first of two gymnasiums was raised to the main floor and given a children's climbing place for play (as well as "bubble-windows" for viewing the indoor pool) to create a new area for the fitness room, which was originally just an area near the bottom of the stairs and locker rooms.

In early 2006, the outdoor children's play pool was completed and opened for the public that summer. Later that year the indoor pool was closed for reconstruction of the play pool, adding a new slide that was more child-appropriate, not to mention more colorful.

A senior citizen center was constructed on the west wing, and was completed in summer 2007.

External links

* [http://www.chaskacommunitycenter.com/ Chaska Department of Parks and Recreation]
* [http://www.chaskamn.com/ Chaska City Website]