The Maggie Gilbert Aquatic Center at Palisades Charter High School

It's a clean and modern aquatic facility in a beautiful setting, with peaceful lap swim hours - a hidden gem. The lifeguards are first-rate and the attention to water quality is excellent. There's an outdoor rinse-off station and, yes, the locker rooms are small.

The facility supports high school and age group swim teams. It's simple, clean, and modern.

The pool is fine but not state-of-the-art. No scoreboard. [No longer the case. Eds.] Not 50m. The locker rooms are among the worst I’ve ever seen in a pool built after 1980. Tiny, no ventilation at all, not clean. Deck has no shade just aconcrete slab. This pool gets a lot of use from the high school, age-group swim and water polo teams, community swim lessons, masters and lap and the supporting infrastructure is just not there.