Philadelphia opens 1st pool of the season, reveals opening dates for metropolis swimming swimming pools

The warmth is on, however so is the operating water.

Philadelphia is prepared for summer time and opened its first public swimming pools of the season on Friday. The John B. Kelly Pool in Fairmount Park and the Hunting Park Pool had been the primary ones to open.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker took half within the ceremonial first plunge, and Philly Parks and Rec introduced a tiered opening schedule for greater than 60 neighborhood swimming pools beginning Friday.

The swimming pools will open on a rolling foundation all through the summer time, beginning Friday, June 12, and can proceed by Monday, July 6.

2026 Pool Opening Schedule  

 
Friday, June 12 

• Hunting Park Pool – 1101 W. Hunting Park Avenue, 19140 
• Kelly Pool - 4231 Lansdowne Drive, 19131 

Saturday, June 13 

• Max Myers Pool – 1601 Hellerman Street, 19149 
• Sacks Pool – 400 Washington Avenue, 19147 

Sunday, June 14 

• Gathers Pool – 2501-19 W. Diamond Street, 19121 
• Bridesburg Pool – 4625 Richmond Street, 19137 

Monday, June 15 

• Marian Anderson Pool - 740 S. seventeenth Street, 19146 
• Lackman Pool – 1101 Bartlett Street, 19115 

Tuesday, June 16 

• Tiffany Fletcher Pool – 743-81 N forty eighth Street, 19139 
• Schmidt Pool – 113 W Ontario Street, 19140 

Subsequent pool openings will likely be added to phila.gov/ppr.  

The metropolis says public swimming pools present a possibility to chill off, discover ways to swim and provides your self a “vacation” with out breaking the financial institution.

All swimming pools will once more supply swim classes for greater than 6,000 summer time campers enrolled in Parks & Recreation applications. Free classes for youngsters will even be out there at choose websites.

Find a pool close to you, here. If you are not close to a public pool, you could possibly take a look at one of many metropolis’s 115 spraygrounds. 

The following swimming pools will stay closed throughout the summer time season resulting from renovations:

• Lonnie Cohen Recreation Center  
• Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center 
• Vogt Recreation Center  
• Feltonville Recreation Center 
• McVeigh Recreation Center 
• Lawncrest Recreation Center  
• Cherashore Recreation Center