Donald D. Summerville Pool

The pool. The deck. The sunbathing. The bathing. People are even swimming in the lanes — practicing their different swimming strokes.
You enter through the change room. For $.25 you can use a day locker. Make sure you have a viable pocket to safeguard your key, or pin it to your swimsuit. Literally pin it on! No pinterest here. There are enough showers to clean yourself before going in and out of the water. If you are shy to change clothes in front of others, there are individual change areas, but be quick because they are few!
There are technically 3 pools here. A kiddy pool. A diving pool, but I didn’t stroll over there. And the olympic pool, which is carved out into different areas by the floating separators. You can frolic and you can swim without interrupting others. Unfortunately, you do get the precocious little kids who eschew the kiddy pool and want to be more grown up than they are. So, they will splash and pretend to do swimming strokes next to you.
The deck is amazing, You can get a great tan. Vitamin D. Unwind. Read a book. People watch. It is a slice of heaven in this busy city.

I love this pool! It’s clean and free!
I came here right after going to woodbine beach, I loved it! It basically has 3 different pools, one for diving, one kiddy pool, and one pool for adults over 18, if your under age they make you do this test so they know that you can swim. But if you look older then your age then they probably won’t even ask you. It has clean showers, and clean enough washrooms.
I can’t wait to come back here, I’ll be back soon before the summer’s over.

Yes, I agree that this place needs some better maintenance and cleanliness. This pool should be the crown jewel of the whole system, yet it is looking a bit run down and neglected lately.
Let’s get some of those kids working a little harder!

Love this pool.
Kids have a separate pool which is great and there are lots of flutter-​boards for pool shinanigans.
For a thrill, take a jump from the 5-​meter on the dive tower. You can see all the way down to the beach.

In terms of outdoor public swimming pools, this one is a winner. It i located right on the beach at Woodbine and Lakeshore. Has an olympic size pool for laps (and because it’s deep kids need to pass a swim test to be allowed in), a shallower pool where all the kiddies hang out, and a really cool diving pool with olympic diving boards.
Here’s what you should know if you come down here:
1) Best place to catch some sun is on the little deck next to the pool where you can do laps — it’s a bit quieter because it’s further from the kids.
2) The showers are pretty gross. Because I live close I just wear my bathing suit there and home.
3) It’s free!
4) They obviously have a limited capacity. It’s actually not too crazy at full capacity — the hard part is getting in. It opens at 10 so I’d suggest getting there closer to 10. By the time I left at 2ish there was a huge line waiting to get in.
5) Bring or wear rubber flip flops, the floors are gross in the change room and you do not want to be walking around barefoot!
6) They don’t have concessions so pack what you might want to eat. I’m not sure you’d be allowed back in if you stepped out.
7) The lockers there take quarters.
Have fun!