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Secrest Recreation Center in Arvada, CO, is a fantastic family-friendly destination that offers a wide variety of activities for kids and adults alike. It features both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, including a toddler-friendly area with a zero-depth entry, gentle water depths that gradually increase, and fun water features like a mushroom sprinkler, making it perfect for young children to safely enjoy the water. The center also has an all-abilities inclusive playground nearby with ramps, rubber surfacing for safety, musical features, and slides designed for children ages 2 to 10, ensuring accessibility and fun for kids of different ages and abilities[1][2][9].
In addition to aquatics and play areas, the center offers a gymnasium, cardio and weight rooms, an activity room, inline skating rink, and a park pavilion—providing diverse recreational options for the whole family. There are also camps for kids aged 8-15, including swim lessons and field trips, making the center a hub for summer fun and learning[1][4]. The family restrooms and pavilion with picnic tables make it convenient for parents while their children engage in activities[2][9].
Safety is prioritized, with supervision required for children under 9, and the facility is designed to accommodate all skill and age levels with special features like warm-water therapy pools and wellness pools[1][3]. This combination of inclusive play spaces, pools, camps, and sports facilities makes Secrest Recreation Center a welcoming and engaging place for families with children to stay active, have fun, and create lasting memories.
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6 Reviews on “Secrest Recreation Center”
The only other review makes me feel obligated to post a review.
This pool is great. It is the only outdoor pool in the neighborhood and it is a bit old, but they do a great job hiring young responsible students to work the pool. If you put your kids in lessons you won’t regret it. We have been coming every summer for 5 years.
Their mindless rules make the pool at Secrest Park one of the dumbest public pools on the planet. Don’t even bother coming here unless your child is at least 6 and can swim without a life jacket. Doesn’t matter if your children can stand in the pool, feet touching the bottom, with their head out of water or not. Doesn’t matter if your child proves they can easily swim to the side of the pool from where the slides let out or not.
Age and swimming ability are mutually exclusive, you morons. Just because a child is 5 doesn’t mean they can’t swim well, and just because they’re 6 doesn’t mean they can. I would make a comment about a child over the age of 6 drowning because of this idiotic rule, but it’s near impossible to take a step without running into one of their 16 school yard bully lifeguards anxiously awaiting the opportunity to cram their dumb rules down your throat. We get it, you got beat up all throughout high school and aren’t old enough to apply for the local police force, so this is the closest you can get to a position of authority, and until then, you’re going to impose yourself upon every person that crosses your path as a result.
The fact that I’m required to take the coast guard approved life jacket OFF of my child for her to be allowed to go down the slide is as moronic and it is ignorant. “Sir, we need to make your child unsafe before she can go down the slide, take that life saving device off first.” Basically, your staff and management are implying that they know more about water safety than the UNITED STATES COAST GUARD! I put my children in life jackets when they’re at the pool because it is an added layer of security and peace of mind that my children (one of which can swim without one, but not for 6 hours straight) will be safe while playing in the pool. By making a rule that says “In order for your child to play in water that’s 10 feet deep, they’re required to take off their life jacket,” you’re placing yourself at a greater risk for a child to incur injury or death as a result.
I have no problem following rules, especially when the rules actually carry some merit. Not allowing arm floaties, but allowing coast guard approved PFD’s, is a perfect example of a rule that might seem nit picky on the surface, but actually makes sense when you delve into it. It’s a rule is made with the ultimate safety of the children in mind, because you want to avoid unnecessary liability by not allowing children to use a cheap and potentially ineffective life saving device. In this case, your rules are too stupid to carry any merit whatsoever. The best analogy to the life jacket rule that I can think of would be that in order for me to be allowed to drive through a school zone, I am required to unbuckle my kids from their car seats, and have them lie down on the hood of the car until I’ve exited the school zone, at which time I can buckle them back up into their car seat and continue driving down the road. Only an imbecile would draft a set of rules build around forcing a child to REMOVE THEIR COAST GUARD APPROVED LIFE JACKET in order to play in their swimming pool. If there’s anybody with more than two brain cells to rub together at any level of management in your organization, you’ll recognize this and correct it.
I hope I’m never obligated to come to a birthday party here again so I can just make it a mission to tell everybody about the group of brainless idiots that run this place and never return as long as I live.
A great pool for young kids! Zero depth entry with a gradual increase from 1-2 ft then 3 to 3 1/2 to 4 to 5. Clean pool and bathrooms. A nice toddler area with overflowing mushroom sprinkler and big slide. Other larger waterslide in deeper water for kids that swim. Not too busy at opening time and of course busier as day and heat comes on. Friendly front desk staff and the lifeguards walk the perimeter. Water in toddler area warmer than most outdoor pools. We really enjoyed ourselves.
I really came to this pool for the lessons for my two kids. I went to the parent child lesson for my younger child and the older child went to lessons with a small class of 5 children total.
Pros:
The pool area is easy to navigate and it’s simple to find the classes. The people working, teaching and life-guarding are extremely nice. Pool is clean and there is a water table out for kids to play in before lessons which I thought was a great idea to keep kids excited about the water but out of the pool while lessons are in session.
Cons: lessons are mediocre at best. To be fair, my older child is very nervous in the water, and that limited what he was willing/able to do. There’s not much a teacher can do to push a kid to be braver when there is a 5:1 ratio of student to teacher. The classes should probably be smaller. They are 25 min each, so 5 minutes each student? For kids that are willing to be brave and don’t have any fear of water or swimming might successfully learn what they need to in this period of time. However, the teacher tried her best to help my child progress, but it felt like there could have been a little more energy and engagement in the class.
The parent/child class was really a waste of time. I’ve been to several different parent/child swim classes through Apex and they’ve all been very good. The teachers engaging and keep a quick pace with instruction so the little ones keep moving and don’t get cold and bored. This teacher had NO motivation. I made a complaint on the 3rd day and then next day there was a substitute. After that, she was a little better, but I would never waste my time with that teacher again. All of the parents doing that class were dissatisfied with that teacher. All to say. Maybe this is a good place for recreation, but the lessons aren’t worth doing.
Never in my life has my family been subjected to as much blatant racism as we have been during this 2021-2022 YOUTH basketball season. My child, who is of mixed race, is in 3rd grade. My child is an exceptional basketball player who is a part of an exceptional team with an exceptional coach. Nobody can explain to me why our team, who play aggressive and win their games because they play with so much heart, have been targeted by ENTIRE basketball STAFF this entire season! My child has been TARGETED all season because of their aggressive nature and the entire team has been targeted as well. This past weekend in December 2021 was by far the worst experience in YOUTH basketball we have ever experienced. My child and the entire team were targeted and quite frankly it was disgusting and vile. I would like to thank the Apex YOUTH basketball staff (referees included) for completely bashing the emotions and work ethic of 8/9 year old’s wile also completely deflating an entire 3rd/4thgrade team of really amazing kids. I hope you are all proud of yourselves. I as a parent am sick and livid about the entire situation. It will be handled.
Seems like most of the reviews are for kid swimming classes, but this is my favorite rec center in Arvada! I love working out in their gym. There’s a variety of machines, and all their equipment is clean. Everyone is so focused. I’ve never been in the pool here, but I definitely should – I never see anyone using it. Front desk staff is always helpful. Very neighborhood vibes.