Rinconada Pool

This is a very clean facility with lovely water. People are friendly about sharing lanes (I only ever had to share with one other person). There was some detritus on the pool bottom, but that didn't detract from the experience.

The locker room has no lockers for your stuff (though there are very small lockable lockers in the entryway); it just has hooks. There is one group shower area in the men's room; the water is very hot and turns off after 30 seconds.

Everyone I encountered was friendly. I would be happy to swim here again!

I've swum at this pool when visiting relatives on and off since the 1970s. It’s still a great pool. It’s a little brisk on a 35º California morning (Brrr), especially as locker room was closed this week for repairs. I’ve never had to share a lane, but they’re all nice people and I bet they share nicely. On weekdays in the late afternoon and evening lanes may not be available due to swim teams.

I swam at Rinconada Pool on a Saturday morning in May and had my own lane from 6:45 to 8 AM, although all the lanes were being used (it looked like a Masters group was circle swimming at one end). The water was clean, clear, and at good temperature. Kick boards and pull-buoys were available. The men's locker room was clean and the showers were warm, but you need to bring own soap and shampoo. The lifeguards and staff were alert, attentive, and friendly.

This is a very nice place and well run, with very high use by teams, Masters, and adult lap swimmers. Check the adult lap schedule and Tweets on its website ("website", above) as there are frequent seasonal changes.

Small lockers to stow valuables, such as a cell phone and a wallet, have been added. They would be too small for a large purse, however. It's a very nice pool. It was clean and staff were friendly.

This pool is really nice, I have been swimming here for decades, whenever I visit Palo Alto. It's a city pool, outdoors. Really geared nicely towards lap swimmers: a gazillion lanes, the water temperature is always perfect, the lanes are wide for easy sharing, and there are backstroke flags. The price is excellent (I am still using up a punch card I bought in the 1990s...). If you know a diver, borrow their big, warm bathrobe to use when you get out.

The lanes are wide, the men’s room is clean, and the life-guards are courteous. But it has no lockers so I can’t bring any valuables with me and the changing rooms are so far from the pool that the walk outdoors gets very chilly in winter!

Watch the schedule, it changes often.