Where can I play padel in St. Louis?

Padel + Pickle at 1220 N Price Rd in Olivette is the only place to play padel in the St. Louis metro. It has six indoor European-style panoramic courts under 30-foot ceilings, about ten miles west of downtown near Olive Boulevard and Highway 170. The club runs open play, clinics, leagues, and coaching on the padel side.

Is there padel anywhere else in Missouri?

No. As of August 2026, Padel + Pickle in Olivette is the only padel club in our Missouri listings, and its courts were the first in the state. The nearest out-of-state options are La Casa del Padel in Overland Park, Kansas — roughly four hours west — and the Chicago clubs about four and a half hours northeast.

How much does it cost to play padel at Padel + Pickle?

The club runs a membership model with individual, family, and corporate tiers, plus guest passes for non-members who want to book a single hour. Launch-era presale pricing started around $60 per month for an individual membership, but rates change, so confirm current pricing directly with the club at (314) 887-4283 or padelandpickleclub.com.

Do you need a membership to play padel in St. Louis?

No. Padel + Pickle sells guest passes so you can book an hour and try the sport before committing. Membership is what gets you advance booking windows and priority on prime-time slots, which matters more once you are playing weekly.

Can you play both padel and pickleball at the same club?

Yes — that is the whole idea at Padel + Pickle. The 42,116-square-foot building holds six padel courts and eight pickleball courts under one roof, along with a pro shop, bar and lounge, locker rooms, a fitness area, and a recovery room with saunas and cold plunges. Pairing the two sports is a common model for padel clubs opening in markets with no existing padel players.

How is padel different from pickleball?

Padel is played on an enclosed 20m x 10m court with glass and mesh walls that stay in play, so points last much longer and rebounds off the back glass are a core skill. Serves are underhand and must bounce first, and the game is almost always doubles. Pickleball uses a much smaller open court, a lighter plastic ball, and rewards a compact game at the kitchen line — which is why some pickleball habits help in padel and others actively hurt.

Padel in St. Louis: Inside Missouri's First Padel Courts

For most of padel's American growth spurt, the nearest court to St. Louis was a four-hour drive away. That changed when a 42,000-square-foot racquet hall opened in Olivette with six panoramic padel courts — the first in the city, and the first anywhere in Missouri.

St. Louis Gets Missouri's First Padel Courts

Padel + Pickle sits at 1220 N Price Rd in Olivette, an inner-ring suburb about ten miles west of downtown St. Louis, near where Olive Boulevard meets Highway 170. The club opened its doors in December 2023 and held a grand opening weekend in February 2024, and it arrived with something no other Missouri facility had: regulation padel courts.

That "first in the state" line isn't marketing gloss. Padel + Pickle is still the only club in our Missouri listings. Before it opened, a St. Louis player's realistic options were La Casa del Padel in Overland Park, Kansas — roughly four hours west, across the entire state — or the Chicago clubs, roughly four and a half hours northeast.

The club also bills itself as the world's largest indoor padel and pickleball facility. That's the club's own claim and we haven't matched it to a primary source, so treat it as marketing. The checkable numbers are more useful anyway: 42,116 square feet, six European-style panoramic padel courts under 30-foot ceilings, and eight pickleball courts.

Inside a 42,000-Square-Foot Racquet Hall

Missouri's First Padel Courts

Padel + Pickle

1220 N Price Rd, Olivette, MO 63132(314) 887-4283

Olivette is an unglamorous choice that makes a lot of sense. It's a light-industrial pocket wedged between Ladue, Creve Coeur, and University City, with the highway right there and enough cheap square footage to build six padel courts without compromising on ceiling height — the single detail that ruins most converted-warehouse padel projects. At 30 feet, the roof here is high enough that lobs stay part of the game instead of becoming a ceiling-strike lottery.

The build reflects a club that expects members to stay for a few hours, not just book a court and leave. Alongside the courts there's a pro shop, a bar and lounge overlooking the floor, full locker rooms with showers, a fitness area, and a recovery room with saunas and cold plunges. The padel side draws a mix that's typical of a first-in-market club: former tennis and racquetball players who picked it up fast, expats and international transplants who already knew the sport, and pickleball regulars who wandered over from the other end of the building.

Courts: 6 | Type: Indoor | Ceiling: 30ft | Rating: 4.5★

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The Padel-Plus-Pickleball Model

Putting both sports under one roof is a financing decision as much as a sporting one, and it's becoming the standard playbook for padel in secondary US markets.

The math is unforgiving. A padel court is 20m x 10m — about 2,150 square feet of enclosed glass and mesh — and it needs roughly 30 feet of clearance overhead. A pickleball court is 44 x 20 feet, needs far less height, and costs a fraction as much to build. Eight pickleball courts pay the mortgage on a building that padel alone couldn't fill in a city with zero existing padel players. Six padel courts then get to grow into demand rather than having to arrive with it.

It also creates a conversion funnel. Pickleball members who want a bigger court, longer rallies, and a sport with more room to improve walk 100 feet and try padel — and a meaningful share stay. If you're making that jump, our guide to what transfers from pickleball to padel covers what carries over (soft hands, dinking instincts) and what actively gets in the way (the compact swing, the flat drive). For a straight comparison of the two sports, see padel vs pickleball.

What This Means for Midwest Padel

St. Louis fills a real hole in the map. The Midwest's padel is clustered at the edges — Chicago has the region's deepest concentration, and Detroit got Zmash Padel in Sterling Heights, eight courts under 32-foot ceilings, founded by former Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg. The Heights Racquet & Social Club covers the Twin Cities with three members-only indoor courts. Matrix Club in Lowell, Arkansas anchors the Ozarks.

The middle of the country has been thinner. La Casa del Padel, founded by six Sporting Kansas City players, put two outdoor courts in Overland Park, and Padel KC has city approval for a 20,000-square-foot, six-court facility in downtown Overland Park. Once that opens, Missouri and Kansas will have a genuine I-70 corridor — St. Louis on one end, Kansas City on the other, four hours of interstate between them and enough courts at each end to make a weekend trip worth it.

For the wider picture, see our 2026 Midwest padel update, the Kansas City guide, the Chicago guide, and the 2026 state of padel in the US.

How to Play There

Padel + Pickle runs a membership model with guest access for people who want to try the sport first. Members get advance court booking and prime-time slots; non-members can buy a guest pass online or through the club app and book an hour. Rates change, so confirm current pricing directly with the club rather than trusting a number you read somewhere.

The club is open Monday through Friday from 6am to 10pm and weekends from 7am to 9pm. Rackets are available if you don't own one — worth using for your first few sessions before you buy, since padel rackets are solid, stringless, and nothing like a tennis frame. Coaching, clinics, open play, and leagues all run out of the padel side, and the beginner clinics are the fastest way in if you've never played.

Call (314) 887-4283, book through padelandpickleclub.com, or check availability and full details on the Padel + Pickle club page.