Six paved, lighted courts can be found at the Tarboro High School, two at Braswell Park, and two at the eastern end of the Town Common. Riverfront Park Located along the Tar River adjacent to downtown Tarboro, Riverfront Park offers 25 acres of beautiful cypress lowlands, landscaped gardens and trails, and a boat ramp giving direct access to the river for fishing and boating enthusiasts. The historic Town Common was established by Tarboro's founding fathers in 1760 and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Several historic monuments can be found here, as well as the 1860 Cotton Press, the beautiful Herb Gardens area, and the nature walk along McBryde Trail. The Town Common can be found in the heart of the Tarboro Historic District adjacent to downtown.
Forest is a landscaped neighborhood garden park designed as an urban greenway.
It has paths with benches in an attractive wooded setting. Numerous public and private restorations are found along the two-mile trail with structures representing colonial, antebellum and victorian architectural periods. Significant historic sites are the Pender Museum, the Town Common, the Cotton Press Complex, Calvary Church and churchyard, and the National Main Street Program facade improvements in historic Downtown Tarboro. The Edgecombe County Memorial Library, located at 909 Main Street in the heart of the Historic District, is considered one of the finest small public libraries in the region. Boasting a collection of over 100,000 volumes, the newly automated library also offers magazines, newspapers, audiovisual equipment and materials, computerized research services and an extensive collection of local and regional history and genealogy.