Rossi Pool

Cette piscine publique de Richmond est relativement petite: trois lignes d’eau. Les lignes sont de taille américaine et je suis sûr que la piscine pourrait en contenir 4 si leur largeur était plus proche de celle des piscines françaises. Plusieurs créneaux horaires sont disponibles pour la nage en ligne d’eau, à ce jour le mardi et le jeudi soir 6h30 — 8h et quelques midis de la semaine. Soyez sûr de bien venir durant ces heures de «lap swim» si vous voulez faire des longueurs.
Du fait de ces trois larges lignes d’eau, il arrive que les lignes soient bien pleines. Un bon nombre de nageur né respectent pas les recommandations de vitesse (débutant — moyen — avancé) pour chaque ligne et l’on se retrouve parfois derrière une mamie dans la ligne avancée…
Hormis les jours d’affluence la piscine est parfois vide pendant plusieurs dizaines de minutes :). Le rêve.
Autres considérations:
— amenez du cash pour payer le ticket d’entrée à $ 6 ou allez à l’office des «Parks and Recreations» (au début du Golden Gate park, tout proche du Panhandle) pour acheter un carnet de dix tickets pour $ 51 avec votre carte bancaire ;
— amenez des tongues: pas de carrelage ici mais du béton à l’allure peu sanitaire ;
— Pas de douche personnelle: né soyez pas trop pudique ;
— Planches, palmes et bouée sont disponibles gratuitement ;
— La piscine mesure 35m de long ;
Malgré toutes mes plaintes, Rossi est l’une des seules piscine du voisinage ouvertes à des horaires accessibles pour les travailleurs de jour, suffisamment propre et peu fréquentée pour passer une bonne séance. Le staff est super sympa et le prix très abordable par rapport à certains clubs downtown. Certains nageurs sont aussi très sympathiques; on né fait pas vraiment de compétition ici, nageur très sérieux avertis… Quatre étoiles méritées; une piscine idéale pour se détendre en quelques longueurs après une longue journée.

The pool looks clean, the staff is terrific with plenty of lifeguards actively doing their job keeping people safe in and around the pool.
For the summer swim program, they had lots of patient young instructors in the two morning classes my little boy was enrolled in and 85% of the time he had 1:1 instruction– fantastic!
You would seriously be looking at $ 65-​$ 85/​lesson in a private program elsewhere in the city. Here, it’s $ 3.60/lesson.
The Rossi Pool building itself is a shabby dowager, finished in 1939 as a WPA project. The odd cement tiles on the walls (do they manage acoustics?) are weird-​looking and some are missing. The sliver of a locker room I saw looked shabby (hopefully it’s serviceable); I’d recommend a $ 4 investment in flip flops at Target.
You’d expect the parking to be worse in the Inner Richmond but I managed to find street parking in less than 5 minutes or a spin around the block.
It’s not a posh pool but it’s clean and staffed with friendly Parks & Rec staff. Lessons are wonderfully inexpensive ($ 36 for 10 daily 30-​minute lessons, the best deal I’ve found in this expensive city) and adult free swim tickets are $ 6/​session, cash & exact change necessary or buy online.
After years of trying to find affordable swim lessons for my little boy, I’m glad another mom turned me on to the summer swim program at Parks & Rec.
What an outstanding and supremely affordable swim program, I enthusiastically recommend!
The 30-​minute daily swim lessons run weekdays during the summer at pools throughout the city (you can sign up for two, 2-​week sets of daily lessons). and once a week for toddlers through high school students during the school year.
Check out the pool schedules and loads of other awesome Parks & Rec programs (hiking, karate, Chinese folk dance, Pilates, soap-​making and a zillion more things to do in our great city) at
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«Get Out And Play!»

Super big pool (33 yard length), nice staff, but barely passable change rooms. Some of the lockers are broken. This is a community pool so they only have lap swim sometimes and it’s hard to find a time when it’s not really busy. On the other hand, you don’t need a membership and it’s only $ 6

I gave one star because of the staffs who worked there on Wednesday. There were two Chinese guys. I went there early for recreation swim, so they asked me to wait and I did. 4 minutes before the time, I asked if I can get in to change and take a shower prior entering the pool, but they said no; however they were letting few other people in while speaking Chinese. I go there often, it never happened to me. Horrible experience!

Did my scuba certification course here in 2013 with Don and Jim and their scuba crew.
The facilities themselves are pretty basic, but clean and well looked after.
There are locker rooms with showers, and a good supply of gear on hand for training purposes.
The pool is a bit heavy on the chlorine, but I guess that’s what you’d expect for a public pool that gets as much use as this one.
The neighborhood is centrally located, with street parking findable most of the time.

The manager, Tom, and the lifeguards are all very nice. I come pretty regularly here to help my friend with her swimming. My only constructive criticism would be to keep the pool a little warmer and to offer a lengthier weekday rec swim time. I realize these are probably city-​level park and rec decisions, but this would probably get more people to come to Rossi. Aside from that, I enjoy our night-​time swim sessions.

I really like the fact that I have a public pool in the neighborhood. I love the pool because it’s longer than most other pools which are 25 yards, while Rossi is 30 and it’s not crowded during lap swim. My biggest problem with Rossi is the locker rooms. The place is ancient and looks like it hasn’t been touched since the 60’s! The floors are uneven and always wet and doesn’t feel clean. There are small metal lockers around a large room with long benches in the middle. The showers are really old and the set up is like Jr. High School…6 showerheads all lined up around a small room with no partitians or shelves or hangers to put your towel. Really really awful. Many of the pool locker rooms around the city have been remodeled and I’m hoping that Rossi is in line for a much needed redo!

The pool itself is MEH. Not down for old pools.

My childhood pool! I’m unsure if I wrote about this one before or not, but I find it to be an ok pool… It’s in a good location and has a nice park by it. But I guess other than that it’s nothing that special. Bring a lock

The first public pool I visited in San Francisco. It is clean enough and warm. The staff is very nice, helpful and inspiring. Thanks to the target reception staff set for me, I was motivated to swim longer.

Nice pool, water is usually warm enough, nice staff. You know, the shower areas can be a bit ewww at times but it’s a community pool and it’s affordable. Five bucks a swim.

Rossi Pool is a little bit old-school…the changing rooms are adequate but ancient (don’t except any bathing suit drying machines here), but the pool is clean, they have heat lamps (?!) along the sides of the pool that keep it nice and warm (+10 pts) and the staff are very friendly.
I came here during lap swim on a weeknight, it was a bit crowded (5 – 7 people per lane), maybe it’s just me but their lanes felt really wide so it was not really a problem to circle swim even with that many people. Would definitely recommend this place.
Street parking might be a bit tough in the evening, but there is bike parking outside the entrance as well.

i went to rossi pool for the first time today. nothing fancy but that’s okay, it gets the job done. although i did have to try three lockers before finding one that would close so i could put my lock on it. i was a little annoyed because i had a $ 10 bill and they require exact change ($ 5). no parking provided and street parking was a bit difficult to find. i totally should have just walked the mile from my apartment.
i got there about 630am and there was a swim team in one lane and only a couple people in each of the other two lanes. not bad. pool is clean.
i’m sure i’ll be back due to the close proximity to my apartment but i’ll probably explore some other pools in the area too.

NO!!! I came here before a couple years ago, and my swimming experience was good. But today, no.
Today, I was here today for a field trip to bring my little first grade kids. So when the door opens, this old lady starting complaining and yelling at us for having kids that are too short. We were kind of close to getting kicked out, until this kind worker negotiated with us to have chaperons for every couple of kids.
The locker room wasn’t that good either. The lockers were all rusty, and probably had some dented lockers. The lockers that had holes so I can put my lock in, those holes were covered. And the ones with holes, once you close them, they were locked. Luckily we didn’t leave anything inside. And in the bathrooms, I saw some toilet paper on the urinal, which was pretty disgusting.
The swimming experience was okay. I will give an extra star for having the staff give us lots of things like bins so that the kids can that be tall enough to stand and hold onto the wall. Plus they gave us a floating boat, which was pretty cool. This experience today could have been better. The staff, and the sanitation in the building (outside the building, maybe the waiting area, and the locker rooms.)

I’ve swam at a bunch of pools in SF, and I must say that I love the old school and down-​to-​earth nature of this pool. It takes me back to when I was a kid going to public pools, but it’s far cleaner. They do a good job of maintaining the pool and keeping the water at a decent temperature – moreso than a lot of other pools I’ve been to in SF.
I’m happy that I moved closer to this pool, and I head over to Velo Rouge or Pancho’s afterwards for some grub. Rossi is part of my cozy lifestyle in the Richmond. I only wish they had extended lap swim hours…

This pool is supposedly the same size as Sava’s (100′ long), but for some reason, when I broke my routine to go there once out of curiosity, I felt really boxed in for some reason. Could the lanes be narrower?
The neighborhood was also out of the way; 2 buses and a pretty walk, but it definitely took up the whole morning.
The ambience was also a little grittier than that of the Sava Pool, but nothing too offputting. I wouldn’t cry about it if this was my neighborhood pool.

Sava ruined me. I’m sure Hamilton is next. I haven’t been to Rossi in ten years, and oh my God the changes: it’s ten years older! Seriously, if you want to check out a little piece of SF pool history, go to Rossi. Everything is dated from the font of the signage to the locker room. Amazing.
The pool is longer than Sava but not as wide. It has three lanes (slow, medium, fast), which are wide enough to pass other swimmers. The locker and bathroom facilities are pretty sad. Perhaps the saddest part for me is that they don’t have a dryer for the swimsuit, but the bright side is that the water pressure in the showers is good and there’s plenty of bench space.
It may not be much compared to the newer city pools or the Koret Center, but it manages to put up a good fight and continues to provide a valuable service to the community.

I’m mostly a fan because of the convenience of being across the street from my house. When I first started swimming at Rossi it was $ 3 for the lap swim and it’s since gone up to $ 5, but I understand there is staff to pay and chemicals to buy. Also, the staff has always been really nice to me.
I would recommend this pool to anyone at anytime. It’s indoor, so you don’t have to worry about freezing your butt off until you leave the facility, which is a hop, skip, and jump for me to my apartment. It’s a great workout and I understand you can buy scripts at
for better prices in bulk passes. –1 star for not having a swimsuit dryer.
Support city parks people!

The staff at Rossi are great. I love Marlene teaching the senior exercise class and also everyone else has been great as well. Really nice people work at Rossi. The pool is kept at a nice temperature and the price is right for a big city pool. The pool is a good size pool as well.
The locker room is old but they do their best to keep things up and keep it clean (given the age there is only so much that can be done). An example is: the 6 ladies showers are often all occipied after class and so I go without that quick chlorine rinse that I crave (not wanting to hover around in a cold wet suit). There is no room in there to add more shower heads.
The biggest MINUS for me is a rule there that I hate. I’m assuming all the city pools have this rule. People are allowed to hack and spit in the pool gutters and they seem to do it a lot. That hacking and coughing sound is so gross and later on when I need to grab the pool edge for certain exercises… I can’t help but get extremely germ-​a-​phobic. I wish the «hackers» could hold off and wait until they have a tissue away from the pool etc.
Anyway…I still love coming for class and it’s so good for me too.

Yay for Rossi Pool! Yay for all of San Francisco’s public pools! Yay for the cool people who work here! Yay for 80 degree water! Yay for chlorine! Yay for showers after said chlorine baths!
But most of all, yay me for getting off my lazy fat ass to finally waddle my butt into a spandex swimsuit and test the buoyancy of said fat in the nice chlorinated warm water. And believe it or not, I still float like I did when I was a wee little kid. Amazing!
On a side note though, unfortunately I don’t move through the water quite so effortlessly anymore. Each time I come to lap swim I feel exhausted if I manage to haul myself down the lane twice.
Despite this, however, five stars for the staff, truly. They helped me get back in the water and start doing laps. Five stars for the facility, which isn’t fancy but is functional– and when it comes to public pools, that’s as 5 star as it gets.

I tried out this pool this weekend for the first time. I have been going to USF on and off for 2 years now.
I’d give Rossi Pool a 3.75−4 stars. I’m basing this for convenience. If it’s for the condition of the facility, it’s not too good (locker room).
PROS: The water temperature is really nice. (a) It’s very comfortable whereas USF is a bit too cold for me and i“d have to do 5 minutes of kicking to warm up before jumping in and i still cringe for a few minutes initially. (b) The hours for lap is VERY good. They have evening hours during the week! Big plus! © $ 4 per swim session isn’t bad. You can buy booklets online or in person at an off-​site location. (d) Pool is pretty good-​sized with wide lanes for circle swimming. (e) Pool is equipped with kickboards and other accessories.
CONS: (a) Women’s locker room is in very poor condition! (b) No place to plug my hairdryer! © Parking isn’t easy. (d) It’d be nice if the swim sessions would be longer (eg 1.5−2 hours) (e) It’d be nice to have «monthly» memberships like they do in other cities.
for a city pool it’s a big plus to have lap and rec hours in the evening. REally serves the community well and $ 4 isn’t too bad.