Sports play a healthy role in the city as well.
In addition to Roswell's three eighteen hole golf courses, the community boasts a number of parks for ball games and picnics, lakes for fishing and other water activities. These charity events add many dollars to the local economy and charity causes. The popular sport of biking is taken to a new level in Chaves County. There are plenty of challenging trails for exercise close by and in the western part of Chaves County, one can experience steep, and more difficult forest and open roads. Four wheeling is widely enjoyed in the Mescalero Sands east of Roswell.