The city has eight excellent parks and playground facilities. Included in these parks are two T-ball fields, two Little League fields, two large baseball Babe Ruth fields, two full size softball parks, one all purpose park, six full size soccer fields, and seven tennis courts. Paris is also home to the Paris Civic Center, which features a 3450 square foot indoor pool, a 6192 square foot gymnasium, weight/fitness/aerobic rooms, and meeting rooms.

The Krider Performing Arts Center is the crown jewel of the Paris Civic Center. Containing 600 seats, KPAC offer a green room, storage for sets, a climate-controlled piano room, dressing rooms, an adjoining dining facility, computerized lighting and sound, professional quality acoustics, catwalk, and an orchestra pit. KPAC is designed to meet the sophisticated demands of touring production companies as well as local needs.

Also located in Paris is a city pool, a fourplex movie theater, a skating rink, a bowling alley, and Paris Country Club, offering a swimming pool and a golf course. Also, the county has a country club with a swimming pool and a golf course. The Tennessean Golf Club, an 18 hole par 72 golf course that features winding creeks, deep gulches, rock ledges, and sharp elevation changes. Towering pines and old growth hardwoods frame each hole. Golf Digest Magazine ranked the Tennessean as the 7th “Best new affordable public course” for the year 2000. Designed by Keith Foster, this course is considered one of the best in the State of Tennessee.

Paris Landing State Park, located on 158,300 acre Kentucky Lake, near Paris, is one of the most modern and well developed recreational areas in the state. Its full service marina is the largest and most modern, serving everything from yachts to sailboats. An 18-hole golf course and pro shop are among the many facilities, which include a 100 room inn, dining room, two swimming pools, 80 camp sites, picnicking areas, hiking trails, lighted tennis courts, and outdoor game areas.

Kentucky Lake offers excellent fishing, water skiing, sailing and power boating. Land-Between-the-Lakes, a National Outdoor Recreation and Conservation Development, is located just 20 miles from Paris. The park, offers boating, hiking, hunting and camping, is considered a major wildlife area.