The CARD Community Center is located on Vallombrosa Avenue adjacent to the southern end of lower Bidwell Park. The CARD Community Center is a 12,337 square foot facility that is used for a wide variety of CARD’s recreational programming, facility rentals, and CARD’s main office. The building offers a large multi-purpose room with a wood floor, 3 multi-purpose community/recreation rooms, a newly added outdoor rose garden (Creekside Rose Garden), as well as amenities such as a caterer’s kitchen, tables, chairs, and PA system.
Chico Area Recreation & Park District is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and
channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, Chico Area Recreation & Park District
has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and
commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are coded to allow individuals with vision and
other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome
feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise.
If you need any special assistance or accommodations:
Chico Area Recreation & Park District has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations.
The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best
practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.
Compliance Procedures and Reports
In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards,
Chico Area Recreation & Park District regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely
changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found.
Linked Documents and Third Parties
Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do
not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our
agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties,
we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.