Riverchase Recreation Center

I have been a member for many years and still love this facility. The gym is easy to use. The locker room area is clean and well maintained.

Good place for family fun! 3 pools. One indoor and 2 outdoor. Hot tub. Gym with indoor track. Basketball courts.
Locker rooms with showers. Indoor play center for children.

Riverchase is a great place for the family! The kids have a great time in the pool. And when we want to work out it also has an awesome place for the kids to play. The staff is great!

As a family man, I cannot say enough good about this fantastic Fenton City recreation center! The staff are always friendly, and accommodating. The pools are clean and beautiful, and the lifeguards have positive attitudes and are clearly good young people. It’s a beautiful place to get in shape as well as have fun with the whole family.

Riverchase is a fine gym that gets the job done. It’s super cheap if you are a resident in Fenton… like dirt cheap. This makes it nearly impossible to pass up.
It’s hardly ever crowded and when it is, you never have to wait for anything. It’s clean and there are just the right number of machines. Apart from a track, cardio, and weight training machines they have a huge pool and basketball court. The pool lap area is pretty small… I think it has like 4 lanes? The basketball court is nice and they are always setting volleyball nets among other things.
The weights area doesn’t have a ton of free weights but enough to get the job done.
Riverchase has tons of community events but they are mainly aimed at kids/​families. If you are looking for a gym to pop in and do your simple work out without anything too fancy, than Riverchase is perfect.

Having been members of a local YMCA in the past, we were moving to Fenton and thought we’d check out this recreation center. The staff were very friendly, although I would have liked to have seen at least one of the three gals at the front desk moving about the facility. Overall, the facility was very clean. I would have also liked to have seen at least free wifi offered, as it didn’t appear they had towel service or even paper towels available in the restroom (hand dryers only). $ 1.75 for bottled water is a bit pricey. We’re unsure at this time if we’ll join. For the $ 10 we paid for the evening, it’s a bit disappointing for my track walking and the hubby to use the pool.

We attended a child birthday party at the river chase complex. The building was clean and the staff was semi friendly. After the party we paid to swim at the indoor pool. The initial red flag was that anyone not swimming had to pay the same fees as those swimming just to be in the pool area. Once inside the pool area we were blasted with the smell of chloramines indicating something just was right with the pool. The swimmers swam for 1.5 to 2 hours during which 4 out of 5/​kids began to develop a cough. 3 of these children complained of sore throats immediately after our swimming session was over. As one of the un lucky adults who chose to swim I too developed the cough as a direct result from being in the pool. In addition to the cough, I developed eye, skin and nasal irritation even after showering on site. My wife was one of the lucky adults who stayed out of the water but did complain of eye and lung irritation from being in the pool room. This was definitely our first and last visit to the complex. I hope this review would help another family avoid having a similar experience to ours by giving them a heads up of what to watch out for at River Chase.

I have only been to the pool area, so I don’t know about the rest of the facility, but if it is anything like the pool, you have an A in my book.
Teenagers are tough and roudy in the summer and get bored easily (do you sense a theme here) and what better way to get rid of all that pent up energy then a day at RiverChase.
There are not one, nor two, but three pools! One is indoors and has a lazy river and a water slide as well as lanes for exercise. One of the outdoor pools is a competition pool and the other pool is a ‘let’s hang out and splash people and slide’ kind.
There is also an indoor hot spa if you feel the need to relax.
Yay!

Been a member for 2 years now and love this place. It’s very clean, and affordable even though I don’t live in Fenton. The indoor running track is awesome for those nasty days when you don’t want to want to run outside and you are sick of the treadmills.

Riverchase is a somewhat antiquated (equipment-​wise) but nice neighborhood gym. It boasts free weights, an indoor track and pool, a jacuzzi and elliptical equipment. if you live in the Fenton area, it is definitely worth a look.

I am a huge fan of Riverchase. Before every municipality in St. Louis started building super pools, Fenton did it first. They created a great little outdoor and indoor pool space with an amazing recreational center for the residents of Fenton to use as well as residents of, well, everywhere else for just a little more money.
Riverchase’s pools are always immaculate. They have the huge water slides and a great lap pool and diving area that many of the newer establishments do not have outdoors. Also, the indoor pool is great and has slides and lap lanes, as well as a huge hot tub that is open year round.
This place is much more than a pool though. There are a ton of sports teams you can join, both as a child and as an adult to stay fit, they have great work out rooms, and a ton of classes from arts and crafts to aerobics. The dressing rooms are pristine and the staff is incredibly friendly.
As neighborhood rec centers go, this is one of the older ones around now, which is sad considering it’s only about 10 years old. They have really kept it up, though and it’s a very nice place to go and work out. If you live in Fenton, it’s a cheap membership and if you don’t, well, it’s a little more, but maybe you will find it worth it. You can always try to finagle a guest pass out of a friend that does live in Fenton… that’s what I always do.