Roosevelt Park Pool reopens for summer time enjoyable after one-year hiatus

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – One of Minot’s greatest summer time sights is now open after a one-year hiatus.

It’s probably not summer time till you make your first splash in a pool.

For youngsters like Victoria Arsenault, the Roosevelt Park Pool is a well-liked summer time hangout spot.

“It’s definitely the place I came most during the summer with all my friends,” stated Arsenault.

The pool closed final yr for phases MI-6 and MI-7 of the Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan. It left frequent guests with no place to chill off.

“I had to buy a pool at our own house so we could swim, and I also had to find different things that me and my friends could do,” stated Kindlee Chick.

“We’d usually just stay in the backyard with the sprinklers,” stated Adelina Kanuk.

They discovered methods to take pleasure in some enjoyable within the solar, however:

“It’s not the same thing,” stated Kanuk.

Making it all of the extra particular when the pool opened for the season on Friday.

Just ask 10-year-old Sofia.

“I was talking about it a lot,” stated Sofia.

“It makes me really happy to be able to come here again, especially on the really hot summer days,” stated Chick.

And for Kanuk, it’s an effective way to create recollections together with her household.

“I have my nieces, I’m so excited I get to play with them with the swimming pool,” stated Kanuk.

The pool is open day by day from 12 to eight p.m.

There continues to be some building occurring, however you may entry the pool off Burdick Expressway.

Click here for the path to get to the pool.