All 100 outdoor basketball courts in Detroit.

Clark Park sits in southwest Detroit, the Mexicantown side of the city, and it posts the best rating of any major Detroit park in our data at 4.6 stars across 850 reviews.

The park survived Detroit's worst years because the neighbourhood refused to let it close. A community coalition has run programming here since the early nineties, through the period when the city was shutting parks it could no longer maintain. That history is the reason the courts are in the condition they are.

Summer evenings bring the strongest runs, with a crowd that reflects southwest Detroit: Mexican-American families, long-time residents, and kids from the neighbourhood schools. The hockey rink next door is the other neighbourhood fixture.

Palmer Park spreads across nearly 300 acres on Detroit's north side, 2,325 Google reviews at a 4.3 average, with the basketball courts near the Merrill Plaisance entrance. The park has been through a long revival driven by a volunteer conservancy, and the courts benefit. The surrounding Palmer Park apartment district gives the runs a steady weeknight crowd.

Rouge Park is the largest park in Detroit at well over a thousand acres, more than twice the size of New York's Central Park, with 3,057 Google reviews at a 4.1 average. The basketball courts sit inside a park that also holds prairie restoration, a scout camp, and miles of trail along the Rouge River. Weekend afternoons bring the crowd; weekdays you may have a hoop to yourself.

Chandler Park anchors Detroit's east side with 1,493 Google reviews at a 4.3 average, a large multi-use park with basketball among a long list of facilities including a golf course and aquatic centre. The east-side neighbourhoods around it keep the courts in regular use through the warm months.

Balduck Park on East Warren Avenue serves Detroit's far east side with 928 reviews at a 4.4 average. A straightforward neighbourhood park with basketball, sledding hills in winter, and a local crowd that has used it for generations. Grosse Pointe is a few blocks east, which makes the park a genuine meeting point.

Maheras-Gentry Park sits on the Detroit River in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighbourhood, 893 reviews at a 4.3 average. Playing basketball with the river and the Canadian shoreline in view is a Detroit-specific pleasure, and the park's recent riverfront investment has improved the whole site.

Kemeny Park on South Fort Street posts 297 reviews at a 4.5 average, one of the better-rated neighbourhood parks in southwest Detroit. The recreation centre on the same site covers the indoor option, and Google lists the basketball court as its own place, which tells you it gets used.

Farwell Park on 8 Mile Road rounds out the outdoor list with 368 reviews at a 4.3 average. A north-end community park on Detroit's most famous boundary road, with a court that serves the surrounding blocks and none of the crowds you find at Palmer Park.