orchard beach contains a , center mall connecting the bathhouses and boating lagoon. at the time of opening, there were also nine baseball diamonds, seven football fields, 32 tennis courts, a children's playground, and a field house. nowadays, the beach contains the orchard beach nature center, as well as two playgrounds, some basketball courts, some handball courts, and three tennis courts. when the beach opened it contained a pavilion with two bathhouses, a cafeteria, a small-boat lagoon, a 5,400-person locker and dressing facility, and two parking lots with a collective 8,000 spots. the beach could host up to 100,000 bathers simultaneously as well as 7,000 people in the bathhouses. the bathhouse contained an upper terrace, which contained small plants and a large fountain that was removed in 1941, as well as a lower terrace with trees and a dance floor and bandstand that were later removed.