Mountain Park Recreation Center

A wonderful recreation facility at the center of a beautiful, livable community. While those outside Mountain Park can join, the Mountain Park recreation center exists for the health of its residents. There are two swimming pools and a hot tub, basketball court, weight room, and two exercise studios. Courses are offered in everything from yoga to water aerobics. (My wife and I have benefited greatly from the water program offered by Gail Agee.) One can hire the services of a personal trainer. There is also a day school and drop-​off childcare for youngsters, meeting rooms, and a large room available for wedding receptions, etc. Mountain Park is a great community in which to live, and the recreation center is among its most significant assets.

Yes this is a nice community center. It is NOT FREE as each homeowner or condo owner pays monthly fees for keep up the grounds of Mt. park and this clubhouse. If you rent maybe it is included in your rent. I have a condo and I pay a monthly fee of about $ 80 which is what it would cost to belong to a gym. You do not have to live in Mt. Park to be a member here you can join for about $ 100/​month. The front desk can advise you of the correct costs for your needs.

My husband and I go to the club house 3 times a week to do our workout, usually the weights/​cardio gym and one of the exercise rooms when there’s no class in there. The club house is definitely one of the perks in living at Mt. Park because residents get free access to the club house. Yes, people. Free! The swimming pool area was renovated about 5 years ago (I think). The swimming pool area has lap pools, recreational pool with slides for kids, and a hot tub. They also have a basketball court, weights/​cardio room, and 2 other rooms for classes like yoga, pilates, circuit, etc. They have dry and steam saunas in the locker rooms. The women locker room is clean and sanitary. You have to bring your own lock if you’re going to use their lockers and you can rent your own locker for $ 15-​$ 20/​month depending on size. They have personal trainers that you can hire if you are so inclined. They also have a conference room and an event room that you can rent. They have a daycare in the same building — not sure about the hours. They have kids and adults classes/​activities that you can sign up for reasonable fees.

Amazing facility, generally pretty quiet.
The leisure pool is perfect I taught my daughter to swim here a few years back and now she is a total fish. Awesome lazy river/​water slide.
It’s the perfect pool for kids, lap pool and hot tub close by.
Great place to shoot hoop, lift some weights, swim a few laps, hot tub/​sauna/​steam room/​shower and the off to work.
Love having this place in my backyard!!!

I liked the club till one incident. I brought my son with me ones and people at the front desk that usually bored to death got very happy to not let us use the club because my son did not have a card. Instead of helping to solve the problem they just made decision that we do not need to exercise. I called manager, but she never bother to respond to my message. Ignorance and rudeness motto of the people that work there. Dirty hot tub should be cleaned.

Very friendly environment. Not a top notch new machines everywhere kinda place, but that’s most likely why it’s also inexpensive (free if you live at One Jefferson Apts).
Can’t complain about that!

A bonus of living in the area is a free membership to the rec center.
A nice variety of classes open to the members for free with a few select classes that are extra funds.
I have only been there a few times but the people behind the desk seem friendly. It is a smaller rec center but seems to have all the major needs taken care of.

So wait… let me get this straight: I rent an apartment in this area of Lake Oswego called «Mountain Park» and I get access to this thing you called a «recreation center» that is really a preschool, a gym, basketball courts, game room, yoga studio and conference space all wrapped in to one? And it’s clean and kid friendly and it’s… what? FREE? What is this strange and wonderful place I’ve moved to?
(I just wish they had childcare on the weekends but that seems like a silly thing to complain about given everything else that is offered.)
Yeah. I’m gonna like it here.

It’s my neighborhood recreational center!
Facilities are clean and tidy, pool is large and heated while the spa is warm but not really warm enough. Attractive life guards both male and female. Sauna and heat rooms inside each individual locker room (the mens sauna got fixed for vandalism supposedly). Tons of programs for children and adults like yoga, stretching, boxing, coloring you name it.
If you live in Mtn. Park it’s free! I can’t find one bad thing about this place. Get a membership it’s totally worth it.

A heated pool in the Pacific Northwest is like a Portland woman with bare underarms… rare and totally appreciated! But more on this later…
The longer I stay in Hawaii the more complaining I do about things here and the better my memories get about things in the past, including this rec center in Portland (Lake Oswego).
I used to rent an apartment in the Mountain Park area and had free access to this recreation center (home owners paid a yearly fee, I believe), but instead of walking 2 minutes to come here I would drive 15 just to go to 24 hr fitness. Granted, I was less walrus-​like back then than I am now, so my main reason for going to 24 hr was so I could play pick-​up basketball with the young’ns. But now that gravity has become reality, BBall is not a large part of my life anymore. In hindsight I should’ve just saved money and time by coming here.
Weights: The weight rooms (two connected) are small but have an okay amount of machines and free weights (for a free gym). The gym is smaller than places like 24 hr, but definitely bigger than the condominium gyms here in Hawaii. A place like this would fit me well, since I’m no longer a meat head weightlifter.
Basketball court: Too small for real pick up games, but large enough to shoot around in and play half-​court with friends.
Pool: Heated and almost (of not fully) Olympic size. Score! Although I regret not taking more advantage of this when I was there.
Ping pong table! Booyaa! We used to have some epic battles the likes of which the world has never seen. Well, not quite, but you know what I mean.
Other intangibles and intangibles: They also had community classes, friendly attendants and, unlike other recreation centers, this one didn’t have any homeless, pedophiles or tweakers hanging around.
For a clean and useful rec center minus nefarious creatures, this place gets 5 stars!