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The UA Campus Recreation Pool, located at 1400 N Highland Ave in Tucson, AZ, is a facility at the University of Arizona featuring two distinct pools. It includes an 8-lane, 25-yard lap pool designed for fitness swimming and a shallow recreation pool that boasts a vortex, current channel, and a diving well, catering to various recreational activities and aquatic programming.
The lap pool at the UA Campus Recreation Pool is typically maintained at 80°F (26.7°C), while the recreation pool is generally kept at a warmer 84°F (28.9°C).
What are people saying (AI review summary)? The U of A Rec Center is highly praised for its public access, reasonable day pass prices, and overall clean and quiet environment. Reviewers consistently highlight the friendly and helpful staff, the abundance of well-maintained and temperature-regulated swimming areas, including excellent lap pools. It's considered a great and relaxing place for exercise, offering a wide range of amenities like a gym, cafe, and locker rooms. However, common criticisms include excessively cold AC in the shower and locker rooms, issues with showers such as low water pressure or lack of hot water, and a perceived wasteful shower design that limits capacity and can lead to mold issues with curtains. The absence of benches near guest lockers is also mentioned.
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October 7th, 2023Yvonne Eatley
This place is amazing. Loved all the staff. Everyone was super nice here. The lap pools are amazing. Very clean pool. Front desk people are super friendly. I would recommend this place to everyone. Super relaxing place to exercise. Has everything gym, cafe, pools, locker rooms, and showers. I’m sure there are a lot more things here because this place is huge.
September 21st, 2019John J.B. Allen
Ample number of 25-yard lanes for lap swimming. The water temperature always seems close to perfect for long lap swims. The only time it's a little too warm is late in the day in July and August, but all things considered they still do a good job keeping it in a tolerable range.
July 13th, 2025Morgan Barreda
I am a Tucson Native and had no clue that the U of A rec center pool was open to the public. What a great surprise, and for a day pass, an adult is $8, and kids are $5. The pool is temp regulated year round also. The staff were friendly and nice and the facilities were clean. We will be back and telling our friends! Thanks rec center.
July 6th, 2025Riza Duru
It's a great property, it's clean. It's quiet. It has a lot of swimming areas.
January 17th, 2022Jesus Galaz-Montoya
Wonderful swimmimg pool. The AC in the shower and locker rooms is very cold though (quite wasteful; they should rank it up warmer a few degrees in the summer to save on energy). Many of the showers don't work well (water pressure is low, or there's no hot water, etc.), they also seem to be designed in a wasteful way in terms of space and sometimes you have to wait during peak times as a result: each shower is very long and spacious with thick "walls" between one and the next; there's a door, a foyer-type space with THREE hangers, and after that space, a curtain, and behind that curtain the actual individual shower. You could easily fit twice as many showers and save on construction, maintenance, cleaning and replacement curtains with a more traditional design like open showers, or showers with thin dividers in between (there'll be more to clean than with open showers, but still better than the current design), and only one curtain to close off each "cubicle" (the curtains will still get disgusting with mold/fungi though, unless cleaned/replaced often, which increases costs, quite unnecessarily, really). The benches are also a bit weird: there's no bench at all next to or in front of the guest lockers.
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM |
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| Monday | 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM |
| Thursday | 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM |
| Friday | 6:00 AM – 11:00 PM |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM |
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