Recreational facilities include a modern municipal swimming pool, hard-surfaced tennis courts, city park playgrounds, theatre, the Cedar Bluff reservoir recreational area on K-147 highway only 27 miles northeast. Good fishing is provided from the waters of the Cedar Bluff reservoir, Goodman Lake (located just five miles southeast of ness City), and the Pawnee and Walnut creeks. Pheasants, deer and dove make great sport during each of their seasons.