The swim center is really nice. It's well kept, attentive life guards, and all the fun of the…read moreoutdoor CA pools brought inside for the winter. The baby pool also feels like a hot tub in the middle of winter. The locker rooms are generally clean. The sauna is also warm and cozy on a winter day.

Heated pool nice and warm. Expensive because you cannot only join the pool and it is significantly…read moremore expensive for non Columbia residents.

I only went to this particular pool on the very last day and the water was ice cold. The pool was…read morenice but, everyone was standing around because it was too cold to swim.

Very nice but popular pool be prepared for crowds and parking is limited. We had to park on the…read morestreet but the kids had a blast! Beach entry to main pool and wading pool. Lots of shade trees and shade structures. More water features without being a "mini water park". Sanded volleyball area and despite the crowds we were able to find lounge chairs and enjoy the activities here! Brought lunch and made an afternoon of it!

Talk about a great pool! 315 people lined up, non-stop swimming from one end of the pool to the…read moreother! The Columbia Triathlon was hosted here this year and they facilitated it without a hitch. Great Venue! Im looking forward to it next year!

It's not the crown jewel of the CA outdoor pools, but it's clean and there are plenty of mature…read moretrees to provide shade. There is a diving board and a water slide. No beach entrance or any thing beyond the baby-pool for the pre-swimming set: try Dickinson pool for that.

This Columbia association pool is probably my favorite. It has every amenity you could ask for and…read morefor all ages. The baby pool has plenty of action, beach access, overhead fountains at knee depth, shallow for the not bravery swimmers, a diving board, lap lanes, and a jacuzzi. It isn't often that crowded either.

Best pool in Howard County wonderful people wonderful staff wonderful lifeguards and very nice…read moresnack bar

I'm not a member at Life Time but I've been lucky enough to be a guest here a few times. I've…read morelifted here and most recently, took a vinyasa yoga class. The facility is massive -- it almost feels like a mall. There's a cafe, indoor pool, plenty of fitness areas, and spacious locker rooms. Everything felt very clean here which is a plus. The Sunday 10:45am vinyasa class was advertised as "medium heat" but it barely felt heated. The instructor wasn't my favorite and the flow felt clunky and disorganized. Her queueing wasn't very clear and if I were a newbie yogi, I'd be pretty confused. Most of the class was spent in child's pose or savasana and I would've preferred more time to flow and play. The studio itself is fairly small for the size of the rest of the gym. As a guest recently, I had to download the app in order to get my guest pass which was pretty annoying. I've never seen another gym do that and didn't appreciate the extra hoops to jump through. Overall, if this gym was closer and less expensive I'd consider it but for now, I appreciate the chance to be a guest here.

I went to this gym from 2023 - 2025 and finally canceled my membership in December. The staff are…read moreincredibly nice, honestly they are the best. But the crazy expensive cost is not worth it. It feels like all the money goes to extras like the sitting areas, pickleball courts, classes that cost additional money, etc. The only gym area is the second floor, and even that is taken up by classes. Machines are often broken and dirty, kids are CONSTANTLY running around unsupervised and playing on the equipment, and the gym etiquette has taken a severe hit. You see people filming, reading up multiple machines, sitting for an hour while scrolling, and not putting things back. I had to change my workout so many times because the free weights were missing entire bands of weights. Again, the staff is incredibly kind and nice. But the gym does not deserve the almost $200 a month price point. I would pay $40.

Looking for a neighborhood pool where you can socialize, cookout, meet new people, hang out all day…read moreduring the summer, is great for the whole family, and support or join a swim team? Then Hammond Park Pool is the place for you! Laid back and secluded at the back of a neighborhood near 216, Hammond has a basketball court, tether ball, a kiddie pool, and a fully stocked snack bar.

My wife and I have been members for the last 10 years. The pool is really well-run and has a nice…read morecommunity of adults that support it and hang out in various groups. During this time we enjoyed the pool with our 2 sons. The boys have been on the swim team during this time and it has been a great experience for them. Even though they were not the fastest in their group, they improved and had a great time with their friends. Their friendships were strong with other kids as well!

On July 4, 2025, American Pool lifeguards stationed at Cortland Rosslyn completely disregarded the…read moreofficial policy that residents could stay on the pool deck until 10 PM (while the pool itself closed at 8 PM). Despite multiple residents showing them the official email notice, the lifeguards became aggressive and demanded everyone leave the deck. When the Cortland manager arrived and confirmed with his leadership that residents were allowed to stay, the lifeguards refused to take him seriously. They then threatened to sue Cortland and call the police on residents--which is not only absurd but wildly unprofessional. These lifeguards are not building management and have no right to harass paying residents. Rather than correcting the lifeguards' behavior, residents were temporarily forced off the deck just so the lifeguards could "take pictures." By the time the issue was resolved--over an hour later--many residents had left, and the 4th of July celebration was effectively ruined. This shows an alarming lack of training, communication, and professionalism by American Pool. Until they fix their internal mess and teach their staff how to respect both property managers and residents, I strongly recommend avoiding any community that contracts them.

I was hired as a POOL MANAGER by American Pool to manage a facility that they had just received the…read morecontract to administer. I am an active Lifeguard Instructor and a Certified Pool Operator with years of experience managing pools and teaching lifeguard classes. My experience with American Pool did not go well and I quit on opening weekend out of plain exasperation. First, the intro to their company for managers is a two-hour Zoom. With that you are supposed to be able to manage one of their locations. Instead of just giving us a link to the PPT, the presenter suggested we take snap shots of each screen. The presentation touched on a few topics, but was not in depth and left out an awful lot of information. At the end we were given a list of contacts for our areas. My area contact never responded to a single E-mail I sent. While American Pool corporate managers would interact with my facility's representatives (it was in a HOA), they routinely kept me out of conversations and never reached out to me; not even when they made site visits to the pool as the summer approached. I lived a two-minute car drive away. I sent the regional manager an E-mail just two weeks before opening, practically begging for a call so I could get some questions answered and at least get some contact information, and got nothing. This was a trend. Questions to their training officer? Nothing. Questions on scheduling. Nothing, then some sporadic support. Questions on insufficient staffing levels: nothing. I was left to wing it. After I put a schedule together is when Neely (see below reviews) started messaging me to say I had made mistakes. Ok. Fine. They were minor. But maybe if they had answered my earlier questions or provided some type of support, this would not have happened. Then she would go in and change my schedule without letting me know, or after the fact. When she insisted I fully staff the pool over three days between Memorial Day Weekend and the next Friday, when the facility was closed, I walked. I find this company's communications to be horrid. The onboarding was totally insufficient. They basically ignored and kept a pool manager out of the loop, which told me all I needed to know about staying in their employment. They are also an Ellis company. This is a corporate Lifeguard Certification business model. Ellis certified guards can only work at Ellis facilities. As a Red Cross instructor, I have taught cross over courses for their (former) guards who needed Red Cross certification to work at just about anyplace else. Do your due diligence before you accept employment with this company as a LIFEGUARD (the wages they offered my staff were below what the other pools in the area offered) or as a MANAGER (a whopping $19 an hour for a short-staffed pool that routinely reached its capacity levels). It turned out to be a huge waste of my time. Stay safe.