DC Public Pools Are Awesome
Kay Steiger reports on her tour of DC Public pools:
Today I went to the second in my exploration of DC’s public swimming pools. This one was south of Dupont Circle, called Francis (25th & N, near Trader Joe’s). It’s a nice pool, divided into three sections: the baby pool, the lap pool, and the diving pool. The diving pool was 12 feet 8 inches deep, probably the deepest you’ll find in the city. The DC pools are free to city residents, and I had a lot of fun.
Wow, that sounds awesome. My swimming options are basically this one private pool, which is part of a larger fitness club that my parents are part of. They have three pools, one solely dedicated to laps, one split between laps and general usage and a baby pool. But there’s NO DIVING BOARD! Sure, it’s nine feet deep, which is OK, but an extra three feet and eight inches plus a diving board would be awesome. One would think that public pools would have greater liability concerns and thus wouldn’t have features as fun and dangerous as deep diving areas with nice boards, but apparently the DC city government has figured out to provide something that’s a genuine service to its citizens.
