Asheville YMCA

The north pool is still excellent for lap swimming. It's clean, the water is a perfect temperature for exercise, and the pool is almost entirely devoted to lap swimming (check the current week's pool schedule on their website for hours). On deck they have equipment to lend such as kickboards, pull buoys, and swim fins. The front desk folks are friendly and helpful, and they can lend you a lock and key to secure belongings in the locker room. And there's plenty of easy parking in their lot.

The north pool (Pool 1) does have targets on the shallow end, but none on the deep end. The water temperature in the north pool is great for laps. The south pool (Pool 2) was not set up for laps either time. I mostly had a lane to myself, with a short period of sharing with one other person, but I can believe that the pool gets crowded before and after normal work times. Kickboards, pull-buoys, and fins are available poolside. The facility has both adult and youth locker rooms. The adult locker rooms were undergoing renovations in November, 2019; the girls' locker room was well-worn.

The pool is within easy walking distance (½ mile) from the center of downtown Asheville.

The staff very generously extended my one-day pass for the three days of my stay in Asheville at no extra charge, on their own volition.

Great facility. Nice people. I agree with all comments in the May, 2015 review. The warm pool was warm enough that I found it difficult to do laps in (the other pool was busy). On another day, I used the cool pool which was great.

A nice facility, located close to downtown hotels and the Omni Grove Park but not really walkable from either. They do allow day visitors for $15.00 and were very nice about it. The 'twin' four lane pools are very nice and very clean. It looks like the building architecture precluded building anything with 6 lanes so they opted for 2 x 4 lane separated by a walkway and several supporting buttresses that the lifeguards have to work around. Both pools are striped with competition lane ropes, but the 'North' pool, which is maintained at a decently cool temperature, does not have targets on the walls. The deep end has contrasting tile on the standing ledge which helps a lot, but the shallow end has nothing but clean, white tile that blends into the bottom - so count your strokes and watch your heels on those turns. The South pool does have targets, but is a bit warm for a long work out, especially if you wear a cap. I wish they would reverse the temps! Bring your own lock; towels are provided if you need one.