🏊 SwimBallard Pool
4.4Seattle, WA
Ages 0–16About this program
Seattle Parks and Recreation's indoor 25-yard pool next to Ballard High School, with a diving board, water slide, rope swing and spa. It teaches group and personal swim lessons on a quarterly schedule serving ages 6 months through adults, with a skill assessment required for the Advanced Swimmer, Swim Team Prep and Diving levels, and fields a Ballard team in the citywide Summer Swim League for competitive swimmers age 7-18.
Reviewers describe an impeccably clean, easy-to-navigate facility with responsive, respectful staff, and several who took both group and private lessons here call the instructors patient and the classes excellent; the hot tub and low drop-in prices come up repeatedly.
It is an aging building with street-only parking that gets tight around Ballard High School events, and reviewers report long waitlists for swim classes plus crowded changing rooms when lessons let out.