Swimming Pools and Water Play Parks

Montreal boroughs each have their own swimming pools and some have parks with water sprinklers, fountains or spray equipment. Borough facilities are typically accessible, even you don't live in that borough; you may have to pay a bit more. Depending on your borough, outdoor pools and wading pools open from the end of May to the end of June. Here's a list of what's available, listed alphabetically by area. Ahuntsic-Cartierville Anjou Baie d'Urfé Beaconsfield Côte des Neiges-N.D.G. Côte St. Luc Dollard des Ormeaux Dorval Hampstead Hochelaga Maisonneuve Île Bizard-Ste. Geneviève Kirkland Lachine Montreal North Montreal West Outremont Pierrefonds-Roxboro Plateau-Mont Royal Pointe Claire Rosemont Petite-Patrie Rivieres des Prairies-Pointe aux Trembles Southwest Borough Ste. Anne de Bellevue St. Laurent St. Léonard Town of Mount Royal Verdun Ville-Marie Villeray Westmount Ahuntsic-Cartierville Municipal facilities: Three indoor, two outdoor and seven wading pools. Eight parks that have water play areas. Addresses and schedules. Anjou Municipal facilities: Five outdoor pools. Addresses and schedules Six wading pools and three parks with water play. Addresses and schedules Baie d’Urfé Indoor pool: Baie d’Urfé Aquatic Club (membership only) Beaconsfield Indoor pool at Beaconsfield Recreation Centre (membership not required): Membership-based community pools: Beacon Hill Pool Heights Pool Beaurepaire Swim Club Windermere Swim Club Côte des Neiges-N.D.G. Municipal Facilities: Two indoor, three outdoor and 10 wading pools. Plus two parks that have water play areas. Addresses and schedules Côte St. Luc Municipal Facilities: Côte St. Luc pool on Mackle Rd. Pierre Elliot Trudeau Park, which has water play areas and pedal boat rental. Dollard des Ormeaux Indoor:Dollard des Ormeaux Aquatic Centre (no membership required, has no wading pool) Six outdoor pools; to locate them on a map,click here Membership-based Community Pools Elm Park Pool Fairview Pool Glenmore Pool Sunnybrooke Pool Westminster Pool Westpark Pool Dorval Municipal Facilities: Jean XXIII indoor pool (no wading pool) and two membership-based outdoor aquatic centres, which both have wading pools. Dorval’s outdoor pools are heated, so they open in May (earlier than most other outdoor pools). Addresses and schedules Hampstead Municipal Facilities: Hampstead pool and Councillor Park wading pool. Addresses and schedules Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Municipal Facilities: Three indoor, two outdoor and fourteen wading pools, plus three parks that have water play areas. Addresses and schedules Île Bizard-Ste. Geneviève Municipal Facilities: Two outdoor pools. Addresses and Schedules Kirkland No indoor facilities; one outdoor pool (membership-based). Ecclestone Pool Lachine Muncipal facilities: Four outdoor pools, which all have wading pools. More information From September to May, the indoor pool at Collège Ste. Anne is available for free swim. Addresses and schedules LaSalle Municipal facilities: LaSalle is home to the Aquadôme, a great indoor pool for families with young children. LaSalle also has seven outdoor pools and 11 parks with water play. Addresses and schedules Montreal North Municipal facilities: Two indoor pools. Addresses and schedules Montreal West Municipal Facilities: Montreal West’s outdoor pool Outremont Municipal Facilities: John F. Kennedy outdoor pool, 860 Outremont Ave., has a shaded wading pool. Call 514-495-6253 for the schedule. Pierrefonds-Roxboro Municipal facilities: Six outdoor pools. Addresses and schedules Plateau-Mont Royal Municipal facilities: Four indoor pools. Addresses and schedules Two outdoor pools. Addresses and schedules Five wading pools. Addresses and schedules Pointe Claire Muncipal facilities: Malcolm Knox indoor aquatic centre, which has a wading pool. More information. Seven outdoor pools, managed by the Association of Lakeshore Pools (membership-based). Addresses and schedules. Rosemont-Petite Patrie Municipal facilities: Two indoor pools, one of which has a wading pool, two outdoor pools, which both have wading pools, plus seven wading pools. There are four parks with water play areas. Addresses and schedules Rivieres des Prairies-Pointe aux Trembles Municipal Facilities: Three indoor, five outdoor and seven wading pools, plus four parks that have water play areas. Addresses and schedules Southwest Borough This borough is home to the very family friendly Centre Sportif de la Petite Bourgogne, which has an indoor beach-style pool the deepens gradually, plus an indoor wading pool. Municipal Facilities: Eight wading pools. Addresses and schedules http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=81,1725809&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Five indoor pools. Addresses and schedules Two outdoor pools. More information Ste. Anne de Bellevue Municipal Facilities: Indoor pool at John Abbott College’s Casgrain Sports Complex St. Laurent Municipal Facilities: Indoor: Ecole Emile Legault, 2395 Thiemens Blvd. Outdoor: Eight outdoor pools with wading pools, three wading pools, including one with water play, and four parks with water play. For a map, addresses and phone numbers of St. Laurent pools, wading pools and water play parks, consult l'Agenda, a PDF document on the municipal website, and scroll to the last page. St. Léonard Municipal Facilities: Indoor St. Léonard Aquatic Complex and five outdoor pools. Addresses and schedules Town of Mount Royal Outdoor pool: T.M.R. Pool, 1000 Dunkirk Rd., opens (approximately) June through August. Telephone: 514-734-2948 Indoor pool: Ecole Polyvalente Pierre Laporte, 1101 Rockland Rd., opens (approximately) September through May. Telephone : 514-739-6310 To locate either pool, consult the interactive map Verdun Municipal Facilities: Four outdoor pools, all of which have wading pools. Verdun is home to the Natatorium, an outdoor complex of pools for children; there are shallow pools and lots of water spray/fountain toys here. In 2005, a heated wading pool that can accommodate 250 kids was added. Addresses and schedules Ville-Marie Borough Municipal facilities: Four indoor pools, including the downtown YMCA on Stanley St., three wading pools and eight parks with water play. Addresses and schedules Villeray-St. Michel Municipal Facilities: Six indoor pools, three outdoor, and 11 wading pools, plus four parks that have water play areas. Addresses and schedules Westmount Municipal facilities: Westmount Pool (indoor, no wading pool). Address and schedules Wading pools at Westmount Park (Sherbrooke and Melville Sts.) and at King George Park (Murray Hill Park), Cote St. Antoine and Murray Sts. Westmount YMCA (indoor), Sherbrooke St., near Victoria Ave., 514-931-8046. No children’s pool, but blocks are offered for toddlers to stand on in the shallow area.