Location: Schroeder Park, 359 Old Meramec Station Road, Manchester, MO 63021
Amenities:
- Competition pool with a drop slide, climbing wall, and diving boards
- Activity pool with 2 large slides, triple lane open slide, water channel, 2 vortex areas
- Tot pool with 2 small slides, bouncy frogs, and bouncy seats for babies
- Lockers
- Concession Stand
Website: https://mo-manchester.civicplus.com/159/Aquatic-Center
The Manchester Aquatic Center is a huge facility, with 3 separate pools. The pool is open to Manchester residents and non-residents, but non-residents pay a higher admission fee. They offer rain checks if the pool has to be closed due to inclement weather. The changing rooms are kind of small, with 6 or so showers and toilets and 2 changing rooms. There is a family changing room down around the corner of the building from the mens/womens changing rooms (you don't even know it's there until you walk around the corner of the building).
The Tot Pool is zero entry to 1 foot deep. There is a splash pad here as well. There are baby bounce swings here, and the area is 6 inches deep. There are two rocking frog seats in 1 foot of water and an orange slide (with 2 chutes) that ends in 1 foot of water. These slides are for kids under 48" and under 100 lbs. There's a rainbow water tunnel and two tall jets that spray water out over the pool. They let the kids bring small water toys and small inflatables into this pool. The Tot Pool is open some mornings during the week for tot time (see the website for specific details).
The Leisure Pool ranges from zero entry to 3 feet. In the shallow water, there are two squirt gun stations where kids can maneuver to squirt people around them and a water bucket contraption that dumps water on the heads of those below it when the buckets fill up. The yellow slide has 3 channels and is similar in style to the orange tot slides but is taller. There are 2 large water slides, one is enclosed. There's a water channel and vortex in the Leisure Pool as well.
The Competition Pool goes from 5 feet to 12 feet. It has one lap lane, a rock climbing wall, a diving board, and a drop slide.
