The Department of Recreation & Community Services includes the areas of Recreation & Youth Services, Teen & Senior Centers, a year round Aquatics program, six staffed parks, programming of the new Sport Center and the maintenance and operation of a twenty acre Camp in Wrightwood. The Department also has responsibility for the maintenance of seven Neighborhood Parks and the Memorial Center, Tree Trimming, and maintaining the city's phone system.

The City of Hawthorne Recreation & Community Services Department intends to comply with the American Disability Act. If you are disabled and need special accommodations to participate in any of the Department's programs, please notify the Department at least 2 weeks prior to the beginning of such program and we will attempt to reasonably respond to your needs.