Basketball Courts
Hometown Hoops
Mini basketball camps
Allegheny County has free, public basketball courts in many of the parks, no reservations required. Courts are open year-round, weather-permitting, from dawn to dusk. Visitors to South Park can also try the one-of-a-kind Bankshot Basketball!
Bankshot Basketball Court
Bankshot Basketball
BankshotTM Basketball
Bankshot™ Basketball is a game of skill and challenge that is often described as a “mini golf with a basketball.”
Players of all ages and abilities, including disabled participants, proceed through a course of 21 angled, curved and non-conventionally configured brightly colored backboards, banking shots off the backboards and through the rims. Some shots demand caroms off two backboards. Some are ricochets and some diabolically maddening shots have three backboards and two rims.
Players may use a scorecard to track their score as they shoot increasingly difficult shots at each of the stations. Bankshot Sports™ are non-aggressive and entirely inclusionary. Participants play alongside, not against, each other.
Rules and Scoring
How to Play
At each station bank shots off the Bankboards™ and through the nets. Depending on where you shoot from, you get a different number of points.
Colored circles mark the shooting spots. You may take 2 shots from each circle - if the first try is successful, move to the next shooting position. You must complete all 3 circles at each station before moving on.
Scoring
10 points maximum at each station with bonus points at double hoop stations.
Blue Circle – (easy) 2 points
Yellow Circle – (medium) 3 points
Red Circle – (difficult) 5 points
