Clareview Community Recreation Centre

The new rec centre is pretty great. Just stepping up to the brand new building leaves an impact. It has the same sort of feel as the art gallery which is neat there is some continuity of Edmonton’s facilities. I have tried out the pool here and was pretty impressed.
They have a toddler pool, a lazy river, slide, hot tub and a regular pool. There are plenty of toys if you are bringing your young one as well as floaties for the adults wanting to coast down the lazy river. We really enjoyed the lazy river for our little one because it had a separate little cove you could go into to get out of the way of the crowd. The slide was great too it was a good mix of fun and accessible. The hot tub was really good as well but overall the place was cold. You did not want to get out of the water too often.
We used the family change room and it is huge. Lots of lockers and change rooms make it perfect for families. The facility as a whole is really nice and modern and has an awesome vibe.
We stopped in the new library and it matches the rest of the facility. Lots of chairs to grab a book and curl up or there we a few computers as well. Will need to check out the gym next, but thumbs up Edmonton!

Beautiful facility. Great job in design and ambiance. Hockey rinks have warm viewing areas but even the rink side seats are warm. Nice change rooms for the rinks. The only complaint is that the coffee shop wasn’t open for the early morning hockey game on a Saturday.

This is awe-​some! Clap clap clapclapclap! This is awe-​some! Clap clap clapclapclap!
I must admit that we spent most of our time at the swimming pool, and it was fabulous! My biggest pet peeve in the world is cold pool water, which constitutes for 99.9% of the pools in existence.
This is among the 00.1%!!!
This is, by a landslide, the warmest pool that I have ever had the pleasure of being in. And yes, that includes the A.C.T., for all you old schoolers.
Granted, they only have one water slide, but it is nice and quick and you can ride it solo if you are taller than 40 inches. (My four year-​old qualified, unlike Legoland) The slide also isn’t what I would call super tall, so it doesn’t feel like climbing Mount Everest to reach the summit.
Did I mention how warm the water is?
The swimming area has something for everybody including two diving boards, a diving platform, a lane pool (with a wall timer), the regular pool, a hot tub and a lazy river.
The family change room is nice and big and boasts lots of bathroom stalls. I also love the fact that you can use the lockers as a pay locker OR you can use your own lock. Two things that I found lacking were that there wasn’t any seating area other than in the change stalls and there wasn’t a bathing suit wringer-​outer machine. On a personal note, I can let these two shortcomings go.
The facility itself has a huge indoor playground, a child minding room, full gymnasium, 2 full size hockey rinks, a fitness centre, multi-​purpose rooms, meeting rooms, a multicultural centre school, an Edmonton Public Library, Good Earth coffee shop, a smoothie place and an outdoor artificial turf for football and soccer games.
Bah gawd, this place is amazing! If we lived closer, we would definitely be signing up for a membership. The amount of amenities and classes are second to none. My only wish is that Servus Place in St. Albert would take some notes and consider doing an upgrade.
If you should ever feel the need to take the kids out for a day and have them run amok like a bunch of screaming banshees, the Clareview Community Centre would certainly be at the top of my list. I know that I will be back.
Did I mention how warm the water is?

Came for September Free Admission Day and was blown away.
All the pools were warm — deep, shallow, toddler, & lazy river!
We also checked out the indoor playground — 2 thumbs way up!
We took a peek at the indoor courts and ice rinks.
There is a Jugo Juice and Good Earth (yum!)
Clareview is lucky to have this fabulous new facility!
I was surprised to see so many police officers here. There were quite a few signs posted about ongoing thefts (like don’t leave your shoes on the shoe racks!) so I inquired with the police. They said there are 2 officers stationed here on weekends and sporadically throughout the week.
There are at least 3 levels to this facility, several parking lots/​entrances, and tons of places to sit and read a book or eat your lunch. They even have an EPL branch inside!

All I have to say is WOW… okay well maybe I have a bit more to say then that but one cannot help but stand in awe at just how beautiful the north sides brand new five star recreation facility is.
The massive building boasts a huge fitness area, basketball courts, volleyball courts, aquatic center, sheets of ice for hockey, meeting rooms, jugo juice, good earth coffee house, skate park, and baseball diamonds on the outside. The rec center also shares space with a new branch of the library. I don’t think alot of people know about the new branch as it was extremely quiet when we went. They have a great collection of materials though with tons of room left to expand and bring in even more.
We had specifically visited on Sunday to use the pool so I will expand a little more on that. Going into the locker room I was impressed right away with how on top of keeping it clean the staff appear to be. There is a ton of locker space which they definitely need as after two months of being open it was definitely apparent that the pool has become popular with residents of the area.
The pool area itself is divided into several areas for lane swim, diving, and a shallower pool for young ones and families to play around in. They of course have a water slide like most of the pools in the city seem to come equipped with and I was pleased to see a traffic light system up at the top to let users know when it is okay to slide down after the person before them has gone. Something new that I have not seen before was the lazy river. It is a twisting lane type pool where you can float and have jets propel you around the course with little to no effort from yourself. It was definitely popular with both kids and adults alike.
The life guards at the pool are quite diligent and they have enough of them on where it felt more then sufficiently staffed. At other pools I have always felt that older kids aren’t properly dealt with and the horseplay often injures younger swimmers and annoys adults but I don’t get that feeling here. Infact I only noticed two teenagers in the pool the whole time we were there which was a nice surprise considering how busy it was. Besides the lazy river I also really enjoyed the hot tub. It was huge and quite enjoyable to be able to sit and relax without feeling like I was encroaching on anybodies personal space.
I really can’t say enough good things about Claireview’s brand new rec center and strongly encourage you to try it out yourself… you will probably see me down there as I plan to become a frequent user!