New Canaan Field Club

New Canaan Field Club is a private members racquets and swim club at 164 Smith Ridge Road, New Canaan, CT 06840. The club sits on a wooded 12-acre site in Fairfield County along the Route 123 corridor, within easy reach of the Merritt Parkway and central New Canaan.

Founded in 1957, the club has grown from two Har-Tru tennis courts and a pool into a year-round multi-sport venue serving families across New Canaan, Darien and the surrounding Connecticut towns. The full activities and membership details are on the New Canaan Field Club website.

Padel at New Canaan Field Club sits inside a broader racquets offering led by Director of Racquets Bernard Schoeman, with tennis, platform tennis and pickleball alongside it. Access is restricted to members and invited guests, which keeps the courts quiet and easy to book.

The padel courts

The Field Club has four outdoor padel courts laid out beside the tennis and platform tennis facilities. Courts are full-size doubles panoramic glass-back layouts in line with current US padel standards, with synthetic turf surfaces and floodlights for evening play once daylight fades through autumn and winter.

Because the courts are outdoor and not enclosed, padel play follows the New England seasons. Spring, summer and early autumn carry the strongest demand, with shoulder months extended by the floodlights. The five heated platform tennis courts and the paddle hut warming space cover the deep winter weeks when conditions push outdoor padel off the calendar.

Most members move between formats across the year, treating padel, platform tennis and tennis as a single rotating racquets programme rather than separate sports. The courts sit close together, which makes it easy to switch between formats in a single visit.

Booking and access

Booking padel at New Canaan Field Club is members only, handled through the club’s CourtReserve portal at app.courtreserve.com. Members log in, pick a slot and confirm. Guest play is permitted under the club’s standard guest policy, with members hosting non-members for a fee.

Court use is included in the racquets membership tier, with no per-hour fee for members during standard play. Hours run roughly 7:00 to 22:00 daily, subject to weather and the seasonal racquets calendar. For membership enquiries, initiation details and guest fees, contact the club office on (203) 966-6879 or email info@nc-fc.com.

Parking sits on-site at 164 Smith Ridge Road with capacity for the full clubhouse, racquets and pool facilities. The setting is quiet and residential, with the main car park feeding directly into the racquets area and a short walk through to the padel courts.

Padel programme and social

The padel programme runs as part of the wider racquets calendar, with clinics, round-robins, inter-club matches and club championships organised through the racquets team. Mix-ins and social play sit alongside structured ladders during the busier spring, summer and autumn months.

Junior players are well looked after at the Field Club, with after-school clinics, holiday camps and private lessons across the racquets sports. The clubhouse hosts dining, social events and family programming year-round, and the swimming pool and day camp run through the summer.

Members can also use the racquets pro shop for strings, grips and balls, with rental rackets available for guests trying padel for the first time. The dining room and bar make it easy to extend a session into lunch, dinner or a family evening.

Best for

New Canaan Field Club suits families in lower Fairfield County who want padel as part of a full country-club racquets experience, with tennis, platform tennis, pickleball, swimming and dining under one membership. The private setting and structured programming work well for regular doubles players and juniors.

It is not the right choice for pay-and-play visitors or one-off bookings. There is no public booking link, no walk-in access and no casual single-session pricing for non-members. Players outside the club should look at nearby pay-and-play padel options in Norwalk and Stamford for drop-in court time.

The Field Club runs in-house racquets coaching led by Director of Racquets Bernard Schoeman, covering padel, tennis, platform tennis and pickleball through private lessons, clinics and junior programmes.