Residents make maximum use of the city's 12 well-equipped parks encompassing a total of 51 acres. Park facilities include playgrounds, softball and hardball fields, wintertime skating rinks, tennis courts, picnic areas, wadding pools, and a large municipal swimming pool. The city's Parks and Recreation Department organizes leagues for tee ball, pee wee baseball, ponytail baseball, and soccer. It offers classes that teach tennis, swimming, gymnastics, hotshot basketball, cheerleading, and pom pom. In addition, the department organizes an annual trip to a Milwaukee Brewers game for young people between the ages of nine and 16.
Avid golfers find challenge at four area golf courses.
Bass Lake Country Club is an 18-hole course located about 18 miles north of Antigo. It boasts a practice range, pro shop and dining facilities. Four miles to the west is Riverview Country Club, a nine-hole course with pro shop, lounge, and dining facilities. Maplewood Golf Course, a nine-hole course, is located about 30 miles from Antigo at Pickerel. Scenic McCauslin Brook Golf and Country Club is an 18-hole course in Lakewood in adjacent Oconto County, in the heart of an area of the Nicolet National Forest.