Foss Park: Latta Brothers Memorial Pool
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Has anyone been to the swimming pool in Foss Park in Winter Hill? I saw it for the first time while walking Broadway for this past weekend's SomerStreets festival. It was overflowing with kids to the point I didn't want to go near it, but it was the prime time for that, since it was a weekend day right around noon. Is it always stuffed with children? Is it cleaned up well at all?
DCR has only a little bit of information on it:
Latta Brothers Memorial Swimming and Wading Pool, McGrath Highway, (617) 666-9236
Hours of Operation: 11am to 7pm
Learn to Swim 10am to 11:30am M-F
DCR has only a little bit of information on it:
Latta Brothers Memorial Swimming and Wading Pool, McGrath Highway, (617) 666-9236
Hours of Operation: 11am to 7pm
Learn to Swim 10am to 11:30am M-F
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Date: 2010-07-27 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 08:38 pm (UTC)Cleanliness seems to be much more of an issue in bathrooms/locker rooms or grit on the bottom of the pool scale than any worries about the water itself being icky, but again talking about the other MDC pools that I've actually been to. ;-)
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Date: 2010-07-27 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 02:24 am (UTC)and also, if you have a car you could try Walden pond, it's warm water, $5, and a pretty drive with walking trails. however, they do fill up too and it's been a little flooded this season
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Date: 2010-07-28 02:18 pm (UTC)If you want to swim a lap without crashing into anybody, you have no hope at McCrehan, but Dilboy can be decent.
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Date: 2010-07-28 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 06:29 pm (UTC)That said, I just started getting slightly serious, and thinking about it for half a minute I realized that continuing to be slightly serious year-round is going to require a Y membership.
I was there on Sunday
Date: 2010-07-27 09:17 pm (UTC)In my experience it has a bit of a litterbug problem (as does the whole eastern half of Somerville, unfortunately) but otherwise it seems a pretty sanitary operation, and I'm not at all apprehensive about swimming there.
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Date: 2010-07-27 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-28 06:13 pm (UTC)And the person who wrote http://www.arlingtonma.gov/Public_Documents/ArlingtonMA_Recreation/res doesn't know how to use semicolons.