Mt. Hood Community College Aquatic Center

Best place for long course outdoor summer swimming. Actually, the only place!

Absolutely love Mount Hood swimming pool it’s where I learned how to swim as a little kid I would definitely sign my own kids up for swim classes if I had any kids plus it’s a great college. In the summertime it’s even more fun they open up the outdoor pool and they have recreational swimming for about 3 hours which is a lot of fun on a really hot day.

My favorite place to swim. MHCC students are free! So that’s in my budget. PooI hot tub are regularly checked and kept clean. (I SEE them checking the water.) Hot tub is actually hot, not warm. Staff is friendly, they seem to enjoy their jobs but don’t make you feel like you are interrupting. Dianne B is one of the most patient & funny swim instructors I’ve met!
They offer water aerobics, lap swims, swim lessons; kayaking lessons and there’s a rock wall.
I do wish they were open later in the spring, they close up by 5pm. And if your new it can be a confusing where to go and what you can use. Also it would be nice if there were a few free swim days for kids during summer.

No overpriced vegetable juices or herbal supplements are sold here. It’s not a «meat market» and is for water lovers only. If you, like me, are more of an aquatic creature than a terrestrial one, this college aquatic center may be better for you than a fitness club. It has a 25-​yard indoor pool, a 50-​meter outdoor pool, a shallow learner pool and a hydrotherapy pool, a snazzy name for a hot tub.
Unlike the piss-​warm, saltwater tub at L.A. Fitness, the posted college pool temperature averages 80 °F to meet international standards. The cooler water is perfect for lap swim.
In late spring, when the outdoor pool opens, there is no better way to wake up than to feel the rising sun on your face while doing the backstroke. But the long, freezing walk at dawn from the locker room to the pool will give you goosebumps and numb your feet.
During lap swim, the 25-​yard pool is divided into slow, medium and fast lanes. Bushy-​haired students and retirees make up most of the morning crowd, between 5:45 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. At lunch time, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., lap swimmers tend to be more aggressive and less forgiving of the uninitiated newcomers. It gets worse in the evening.
Lap swimming is free to Mt. Hood students, $ 4 for single admission, $ 60 for 20 admissions and $ 230 for a whole year (about 63 cents per day). Locker rental costs a quarter.