Palm Springs Swim Center

Love this pool. It's the best pool in the Coachella Valley. They do a great job keeping it clean and at a good temperature. The outdoor locker room is also a plus.

This is a nice pool in a beautiful setting. I swam in the early mornings and always had a 25-yard lane to myself--though the pool was hardly empty. No reservations are required. Contrary to earlier reviews, the pool temperature was in the high seventies though it probably does heat up in summer as the day progresses.

The pool, locker rooms, and showers could all use a little refresh but the pool is totally enjoyable as is. Admission is pricey but if you swim there with any regularity, a pool pass is the way to go.

Heavily discounted 25-swim cards are available for both residents ($85) and non-residents ($100).

This is a great facility. When set up for 25-yard laps, there are almost 20 lanes. They aren't currently changing to 50 meters on certain days. From 7 to 11 AM, you can reserve a lane on their website. After that, until 3 PM, it is drop-in and very open. It was never crowded on any of the days I was there. Sundays, they open at 8 AM.

I trained at this pool for a week in April of 2022. They were still on a reservation system from 7 AM to 1 PM and then it is wide open from 1 to 3 PM. I swam in the open hours for a few days and then was able to start booking the one-hour reservations. It's a great pool and I had a great week training there. I will definitely visit again.

This pool is great for lap swimming - if you like overly warm water. I do not. They accommodate a minority of vocal elderly snowbirds over the wishes of serious lap swimming residents who want regulation lap swimming temperatures.

This pool is very nice. I had it virtually to myself on a Saturday morning around 9:30, save for a lifeguarding class that didn't infringe on the still ample lap swimming area.

The changing area is complete: lockers, showers, toilets, sinks, though it's a bit rustic, being essentially outdoors. And it's not practical for the few days that it rains here. Bring a lock if you want a secure place for your things.

It's a nice, outdoor, olympic pool. 50m lanes are set up Saturday mornings from 7 - 8:45 AM.

I visited here on a Friday morning in September, 2015. The facility is nice and staff is friendly. The pool was set up as 15+ 25 yard lanes. I had my own lane, but each lane was filled by 6:00 AM. When I asked the lifeguard where I should swim when I arrived at opening, his answer indicated that the lane grab is a free-for-all. While the pool was nice and clean and a decent temperature at 82ºF., it was very hard to see for the first 45 minutes of the swim, as there was almost no lighting on the pool deck and it was before sunrise. I couldn't read my watch and there was no pace clock. Having said all of this, it's a great pool if you are visiting the area.

Plentiful, empty, four-foot deep lanes at 4 PM on a Saturday. It's a beautiful, clean pool, 81º - 82ºF. (27º - 25ºC), with a gorgeous view of snow-dusted mountains and well-kept landscaping. The equipment is not free to use, you gotta rent it. The locker room has an open roof under the palm trees; bring your own lock. Easy parking in a lot right out front, I can't imagine how it could be any closer.

The water is on the hot side if you're doing much distance.
Most able-bodied swimmers should be able to handle the short walk to/from the car easily. It's shorter than parking at the grocery store!

Awesome swim facility for triathletes on vacation in Palm Springs! Long course (50m) is from 7 - 9 AM only, so if you want to get a long course workout, get there early. Kick boards and pull boys can be rented for just $3.00, so there's no reason not to have the best swim workout ever while on vacation in sunny Palm Springs! :)

The best swimming in the Coachella Valley!

They change the hours with little warning; the priority is definitely the high school and club swim teams, who tend to take over the pool leaving only a few lanes for the rest of us.

The water is clean and the temperature is good. Parking is plentiful but distant.