The VolleyPark

First off let me preface this by saying my review only encompasses the volleyball itself, and not the attached bowling alley, Sequoia Lanes.  The VolleyPark is definitely off the beaten path; you have to travel through a residential neighborhood before coming across a little strip of businesses that are right next to it.

The VolleyPark has some of the best sand of the various places that I've played around Columbus.  It's clean, not overly sticky, and I've not found a single rock in the sand in all of my time playing there.  The side and back nets are high enough that balls rarely fly from one court to the next, and the competition is not half bad.  I mostly play here with the CYP recreation league, so it's not too intense, but I've also played in some of VolleyPark's additional tournaments on the weekends, which are a blast.

Some of their special event tournaments include beer-in-hand, and BeerOlympics.  It's an all around good time.  The food prices and drink prices are pretty fair too; my personal favorite is the grilled chicken wrap with only buffalo sauce & lettuce.  It's less than $5, and pretty filling.

My only gripe about VolleyPark is that they don't have any courts that are truly sized for 6v6 action.  I had hoped when they added the two new courts that they would make them 6v6, but they're not.  Hopefully in the future they'll be able to get a hold of some of the land taken up by the blight of an abandoned swimming pool right next door, and convert it into additional courts.