The Kennedy Park Water Playground is open every day from 11 a.m. Individual or senior day passes are cheaper. Non-residents can buy family day passes for $15 or family season passes for $185. Mishawaka Ave., will be open this Monday, June 6, until Aug. Mishawaka's outdoor Merrifield Pool, at 1000 E. Day passes are available only if guests visit with a member.

There are several neighborhood pools in South Bend, such as Twyckenham Hills Community Pool, Swanson Highlands Community Pool and Arlington Swim Club, but each charges hundreds of dollars for a seasonal membership. Pool closure: Kids rank Gibbard Park ideas as pool is scrapped Other aquatic options 'It's like an episode of one of those HGTV shows,' Jones added of site inspections. 'You start digging into something and you don’t know what you’re going to find.” The pool is 'definitely not something we want to just remove from the community.” 'With all of those additions, our aquatic area is the next thing on our docket,' Jones said. 'Now that the liner has issues,' he added, 'that’s where we say, 'All right, let's do some more research to find out what’s going on.'”Īs South Bend's only municipal pool, the Potawatomi pool drew nearly 7,000 visitors over the eight-week period it was open in 2021, according to Jones.ĭecisions regarding the popular site will occur following more than $51 million in renovations to South Bend recreational spaces made from 2017 to last year as part of the 'My Parks & Trails program.' The pool wasn't included in the dozens of projects planned for that initiative. “Over the many years when (the concrete base) was starting to show wear and tear, the solution was to put a liner on it,' he said. 'That liner was essentially masking the other issues that were going on. Though adding a new liner would likely take only a matter of weeks, Jones said the city worries that option would ignore the structural problems evidently occurring beneath the pool's exterior. He described the pool liner as a shorter-term fix whose time has expired. Jones said staff have been tracking a 'mounting set of maintenance issues' year after year. Outdoors: Kayaks, paddleboards can now be rented at Pinhook Park in South BendĬommunity members also lament the timing of the decision, which comes just as summer is arriving. 'There aren’t a lot of places that babies, kids, teenagers, adults and grandparents can exercise safely together,' one parent wrote, 'but swimming holes and swimming pools fill that niche.' But several parents in Facebook community groups have complained that those options aren't an apt substitute for traditional swimming with children. In response to the pool closure, the city has advertised its nine splash pads spread throughout South Bend and extended the hours of the Kennedy Park Water Playground on the northwest side.

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