Parks & Recreation

Rushville features more than 50 acres of public parks, including a brand-new Amphitheater at Riverside Park , new municipal swimming pool (complete with several exciting water slides), 12 tennis courts, fitness trail, and two 18-hole golf courses. Local residents can choose from 6 different park areas to meet their recreational needs.

• Veterans Memorial Park North is located within the Rushville Consolidated School Corporation Campus in northwestern Rushville. The high school, vocational school, elementary school, football stadium, basketball arena, baseball diamond and lighted tennis courts are located on school and city property here. In addition to these facilities, the Parks and Recreation Department has a zero depth access outdoor pool with locker rooms, sun deck, a covered shelter house, the Parks and Recreation Department offices, a lighted softball diamond, concession stands, lighted horseshoe courts, picnic areas, playground equipment, fitness walk trails and several small cabins.
• Veterans Memorial Park South , located on Jackson Street between Ninth and Eleventh Streets, offers an enclosed shelter house, lighted basketball courts, large flower planters, restrooms, playground equipment, picnic tables, fitness walk trail and a small privately operated restaurant.
• Community Park , located on Ft. Wayne Road includes: a partially enclosed shelter house with concessions, a softball diamond, restrooms, playground equipment, basketball court, a tennis court and a storage building.
• Laughlin Park , located at Second and Spencer Streets, houses an enclosed shelter house, a basketball court, a concession stand, shuffleboard, picnic tables, restrooms, playground equipment, two lighted baseball diamonds, a lighted softball diamond, an unlighted T-ball diamond and a large undeveloped area.
• Wilkie Park , located on Main Street between Second and Third Streets, has a gazebo, benches and flowerbeds for downtown visitors to enjoy.
• Riverside Park & Amphitheater provides some thirty acres along the Flatrock River with
  a new state-of-the-art Amphitheater for musical and stage performances, a nature-walk trail and picnic areas.

Golf : Rush County has two 18-hole golf courses that are both open to the public.

• Antler Point Golf Club is a semi-private rolling, tree-lined course just three miles north of Rushville.
• Horseshoe Bend Golf Course is also semi-private and is located in the northern part of Rush County near Lewisville .

The area's youth are well-served, too, by the Rushville Boys & Girls Club, which offers a wide variety of programs ranging from education and physical fitness, to craft and hobby classes, and an active 4-H program.

Arts & Entertainment

It would be wrong to assume that Rush County 's rural nature excludes it from the arts- entertainment and cultural advantages that many seek for their families. Nothing could be further from the truth, for the arts flourish in many forms.

The county supports a lovely, old-fashioned Historical Museum , maintained by the Rush County Historical Society. The museum, located at Seventh and Perkins streets, researches, collects, preserves and interprets information and artifacts about the area. Open on Sunday afternoons during the summer months, the museum provides a glimpse of the American fabric, displaying things like an early Harcourt wheat drill, a spinning wheel, a miniature carousel, 19th century toys and music boxes.

Five of the famous Kennedy covered bridges are sprinkled throughout the county. Three generations of Kennedy's built approximately 50 covered bridges in central and outhern Indiana during a sixty-year period beginning in the 1880s. These magnificent structures, buttressed by the Burr arch truss system, are lovingly protected by Rush County Heritage, and attract visitors from far and near. One fine example is the Moscow Covered Bridge , which in June of each year inspires the Moscow Covered Bridge Festival.

The Rush County Players ( www.rushcountyplayers.org ) offer local community theater productions at least four times annually. The Players always welcome new talent; auditions for these productions are well-publicized and attract young and old alike. In addition, the local high school has fine programs in both instrumental and choral music and live theater. Several concerts and stage productions are presented each year to near sell-out crowds. From time to time, the local Rotary Club also sponsors visiting artists.

Summer theater is ably performed by the satirical Briar Patch Players, an energetic group of high schoolers who entertain with local musical fare with shows that culminate on the Fourth of July.

The county also boasts several long-standing literary clubs, an active garden club, a community band and many other opportunities in the visual and performing arts.

Countywide celebrations include the Moscow Covered Bridge Festival, Glenwood Old-Fashioned Days, the Pioneer Engineers Steam and Gas Engine show, the Rush County Festival and the ever-popular Rush County Fair which features competitions and displays in many of the arts.