Atkinson Swimming Pool in Sudbury

Small and crowed, need to update their shower room and have people clean them more throughout. Need to have more directions for the after hour swim. Hard to get weekend swim, and weekend hours are short. Waiting room that’s right outside of the pool is very large for parents to see and wait for their kids.

It's a great little pool but due to covid and construction hours lately have been confusing/restrictive/expensive. UPDATE: Minus one star. Really dislike that they kept some of the covid stuff in place. Not even possible to get a membership that covers all open hours anymore. The diving pool - which is also great for warmups or to hangout while waiting for a lane - closed forever. They spent God knows how much money renovating their locker rooms to be functionally worse than the old ones, with insanely small lockers and only one communal bench to sit on, and fewer showers, while completely neglecting the pool itself. If they wanted to spend money on something, saunas, steam rooms, and swimsuit spinners/dryers would have been nice.

Just took a scuba training class here. It's a great pool! It's got a large 3-6 foot pool with plenty of lanes, and a 12 deep pool for diving and whatnot. The pools were very clean and a pleasure to swim in. Would recommend! (obviously)

Great 8 lane swimming pool with dive well. Perfect for swimming laps, toddler swim, or family free swim for the bigger kids. Home pool to the Lincoln Sudbury swim team and Sudbury Swim team.

What a great community resource for an affordable price. I am from the next town over and even non-resident rates are low. I used to go swimming here every morning at 5:30am and you quickly make friends. I am currently sitting here watching my son take swim lessons from Carly.

Atkinson pool is a great community pool. The water and facilities are clean and the staff is consistently friendly. I find that the water temperature is always reasonable. The building is on the older side, but is well maintained. The cost for a yearly membership is really reasonable. You can pay for a single visit, but the cost is pretty high. NEW - Just a quick update after the pool reopened after the pandemic. Memberships aren't being honored, but people are allowed in on a per visit basis. I actually like the online registration system. The pool workers are polite and friendly. I don't like how crowded it gets when there is swim team practice, though. Updated 9/29/22 The new Atkinson daytime membership system runs from 6 AM to 4 PM on weekdays. All other times are by reservation for $8. I like the reservation system. The pool has been pretty uncrowded. Construction has left things a bit of a mess. You have to enter through the senior center. Update 12/7/22 With the start of swim season, it's become very hard to get a swimming slot. The pool is extremely crowded after 4 on weekdays because there are multiple swim teams practicing

Poorly managed facility. They're not able to post an accurate pool schedule online, so you never really know when lap swimming will be available. And locker rooms are pretty bad--things like heaters and soap dispensers are often broken and no one bothers to fix them. Don't get me started on the ice-cold walk to and from pool.

The locker rooms and hallway to pool in this facility are kept at unreasonably cold temperatures. It's so bad, it's impossible to swim here comfortably. (Why they don't address this long-standing and much-noted problem is a mystery.)