The previous reviewer had negative comments about hours and internet. Let's go ahead and say that's a result of reduced budgets and if he/she doesn't like that, they should write their legislator and ask for more park funding. The hours were expanded in 2014 and during the summer the pool was open 7 days a week. I was pretty stoked.
Carson City has one of the nicest facilities in the area and they have four to choose from. One is a covered OLYMPIC sized pool that has many lap lanes that can withstand the use of multiple swim teams who use the area (because unlike Reno, we actually have an indoor pool, and their teams drive at least half an hour to use ours), open swim with the use of diving boards and basketball hoops, community classes for aerobics, standup yoga and swim lessons, and lastly public lap swim. During the weekends, the pool is opened to long swim and one lane is utilized for SCUBA.
The pool next to it is for toddlers which is where the other reviewer needs to hang out.. It's disgustingly warm but that's what the little kiddos need. The other indoor pool is a therapy pool for people who need warmer water for injuries or age-related issues. The last pool is outdoors and is awesome during the summer. During the day, you can swim laps in the sun and work on your bathing suit tan and other parts of the day, it's open swim and the water slide is turned on. I would not suggest swimming laps during that time because it creates an interesting whirlpool with the water pressure. Challenging lap swim at least.
The pools are clean and routinely checked. The pools do not have a strong chlorine smell which also indicates that they are careful about their hygiene and chemical formulas. The locker rooms aren't the greatest and that's probably why I'll give it 4 stars but it's an old building. Carson remodeled their pools but didn't have much to rebuild a state of the art locker room for the princesses but who spends all day in the locker room?? They clean it every evening but if you're concerned, bring some flipflops. Lockers are available but again, if you're concerned, bring a lock. The staff isn't the most helpful as they're mostly high schoolers. Just yell at them and they'll get you what you need.
Overall it's a great facility and western Nevada is lucky to have it. Have questions? Get off the internet and go talk to a human being! read more