Every Public Pool Around Columbus, With Day-Pass Prices And Non-Resident Rules

Updated September 2, 2026. The 2026 pool season wrapped up on Labor Day. Prices and rules below are what each pool charged in 2026, checked against every city’s own site on September 2, and this page gets a fresh pass before the 2027 openings in late May.

Around Columbus, the question isn’t where the pools are. It’s whether they’ll let you in. A lot of the suburbs run their pools for residents and members, and a few will turn away a non-resident at the gate. This list sorts every public pool around Columbus by that one rule, with the 2026 day-pass price for an adult so you can plan a trip without a wasted drive.

What’s new for 2027

Marion Franklin Pool (Columbus) reopens. The far South Side pool at 2699 Lockbourne Rd. sat out 2026 for a full rebuild: a new multi-feature pool with lap lanes, a dive well and play areas, plus a renovated bathhouse. Construction delays kept it from opening in June as planned, and Columbus Recreation and Parks now says it will open at the start of the 2027 swim season.

Worthington gets its pool back. There was no outdoor season in Worthington in 2026. Crews broke ground in January and tore down the old pool next to Thomas Worthington High School, and the replacement, a roughly $19 million complex with a splash pad and two slides, is expected to open for summer 2027. Swiminc, the nonprofit that has run Worthington Pools since 1953, will operate it.

Pools anyone can pay to get into

Columbus Recreation and Parks pools

The city’s outdoor pools are the cheapest swim in town at $3 per person, per visit. Two things changed in 2026: the price tripled from $1, and the gates went cashless, so bring a debit or credit card or load a digital punch card through ActiveNet. Everyone age 3 and up needs a free Leisure Card, which you can get online, at any community center or at the pool. Summer hours in 2026 ran 1 to 7 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 6 on weekends, and the pools are first come, first served with capacity limits, so check the live status page before a hot Saturday.

• Dodge 645 Sullivant Ave.
• Driving Park 1100 Rhoads Ave.
• Glenwood 1888 Fairmont Ave.
• Lincoln 570 E. Woodrow Ave.
• Marion Franklin 2699 Lockbourne Rd. (rebuilt, reopening for the 2027 season)
• Maryland 1380 Atcheson St.
• Tuttle 240 W. Oakland Ave.
• Windsor 1300 Windsor Ave.

Upper Arlington pools

Upper Arlington runs three outdoor pools and sells day passes to anyone: $10 for residents, $14 for non-residents, kids 2 and under free, all cash-free. Reed Road Water Park (2000 Hastings Ln.) has the lazy river and two slides. Tremont Pool (2850 Tremont Rd., in Northam Park) has diving boards, climbing walls and a zero-depth end. Devon Pool (2070 S. Mallway Dr.) is the quieter neighborhood option with lap lanes and a diving well. The catch is the calendar: UA’s pools closed on August 9 in 2026, weeks before everyone else.

Hilliard Family Aquatic Center and CBS Community Pool

One day pass covers both Hilliard pools: $10 for residents, $20 for non-residents, $5 for seniors 65 and up, kids under 3 free. The Hilliard Family Aquatic Center (3850 Veterans Memorial Dr.) is the big one, with two 30-foot slides and a 25-yard competition pool. The CBS Community Pool, still the Clyde “Butch” Seidle pool to most of Hilliard, is at 4450 Schirtzinger Rd. with a 14-foot slide and a spray pad. In 2026 the aquatic center closed on August 18 when the college lifeguards left, and CBS carried the season through Labor Day.

Plain Township Aquatic Center

New Albany’s public pool is open to non-residents, just at a higher rate: adults pay $11 as Plain Township residents or $13 otherwise, youth $9 or $11, seniors $7 or $9. The pool itself is a lot of pool for the money: an 8-lane competition pool, two 28-foot slides (one body, one tube), a mushroom umbrella spraying over the zero-depth entry, and a fenced play area for the little kids. Everything is heated.

Highlands Park Aquatic Center (Westerville)

Westerville’s aquatic center at 245 S. Spring Rd. sells daily admission at $10 for residents and $20 for non-residents. It’s a full water park: a slide tower with a speed slide and a body slide, a lazy river, a spray playground, a zero-entry toddler pool and an eight-lane, 25-meter pool with a diving well. It opened May 23 in 2026, and season passes are sold at the Westerville Community Center on N. Cleveland Ave.

Grandview Heights Municipal Pool

Grandview welcomes non-residents, but you can’t pay at the gate. Daily admission is pre-purchased online, on sale each morning at 8:30 for that day only. Adults paid $10 (resident) or $14 (non-resident) on weekdays in 2026 and $14 or $18 on weekends and holidays, with cheaper kid and after-7 p.m. rates. Marble Cliff addresses count as resident.

Canal Winchester Municipal Pool

The pool at 180 Groveport Rd. is open to residents and non-residents, with a zero-depth leisure pool that has a waterfall and climbing wall, a competition pool with diving boards, a wading pool and a shaded sun-sail area. Daily admission for ages 3 to 59 ran $8 for residents and $10 for non-residents in 2026, and Sundays were cheaper at $5 and $7. The new wrinkle for 2026: anyone buying a day pass has to pre-register with the city and pick up a pool ID at City Hall first, and nobody gets registered at the pool. Sort that out on a weekday before you show up.

Groveport Aquatic Center

Groveport’s outdoor water park at 7370 Groveport Rd. is open to everyone, and the 2026 day pass was $10 for residents and $20 for non-residents (new rates as of January 2026). You’ll need a Groveport Recreation ID card first, which is free for residents and $2 for non-residents and only has to be done once. Rain checks are issued if the pool closes within your first hour.

Marysville Municipal Pool

Marysville charges everyone the same rate, and it’s one of the lowest around: adults 19 to 63 pay $8, kids 5 to 18 pay $6, seniors $5, and anyone 5 and up gets in for $4 after 5 p.m. The pool at 510 Park Ave. has a 10-foot slide, three diving boards and a zero-entry baby pool. It’s open daily until early August and weekends only through Labor Day weekend.

Plain City Aquatic Center

Plain City’s pool at 160 W. Second St. takes non-residents at a steep premium: adults paid $8 as residents or $15 as non-residents before 4 p.m. in 2026, and $6 or $13 after. Residency follows the village tax district, so Jerome, Darby and Canaan township addresses with Plain City mail count as non-resident. Once Jonathan Alder schools are back in session in late August, the pool runs weekends only through Labor Day.

Pataskala Municipal Pool

Pataskala’s pool has been open since the early 1970s and doesn’t split its day passes by residency: $10 for anyone 12 and up, $7 for ages 5 to 12, $7 for veterans, under 4 free. The 2026 rates were the first increase since 2019.

Jack Florance Pool at Mingo Park (Delaware)

Delaware’s city pool at 500 E. Lincoln Ave. runs Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend, weekends only once school starts, with two 28-foot slides, a zero-depth entry and a diving well. Day passes ran $8 to $10 in 2026. Residency rules and membership prices are on the city’s site, which blocks most automated checks, so confirm there before driving up.

Pools for residents, members and their guests

The Big Splash (Grove City)

Grove City’s water park at 2803 Southwest Blvd. is built around season passes: $70 for residents and $140 for non-residents in 2026, and a pass holder can bring one guest a day for $6. Walk-in day passes do exist at $10, but the city sells fewer than 5 percent of capacity that way each day, so don’t drive over counting on one. The better bet for a non-pass-holder is a Community Day, when the whole town swims for $2 from 4 to 7 p.m. on a handful of Sundays each summer.

Dublin Community Pools North and South

Dublin has two outdoor pools, North at 5660 Dublinshire Dr. and South at 6363 Woerner Temple Rd., and the rule is strict: only Dublin residents and season pass holders can buy a daily pass. A non-resident gets in as the guest of a resident or pass holder, at $14 for an adult versus $12 for the resident, and not otherwise. Non-resident season passes are sold but cost more than double the resident price ($280 versus $120 for an individual in 2026).

Bexley Pool

The David H. Madison Community Pool at 2100 Clifton Ave. is for Bexley residents, members and their guests. Bexley dropped family memberships in 2026 and went to a flat $55 per person for residents, with no early-bird rate; non-residents can join only if a current member sponsors them, at $80, and the city caps those at 350. Daily admission, for residents and guests of members, was $15 for adults and $10 for kids, and the whole operation went cashless. The facility earns the membership: an 8-lane competition pool, a diving well, two slides, a zero-depth leisure pool, a toddler pool and a splash pad.

Gahanna Swimming Pool and Hunters Ridge Pool

Gahanna’s two pools, at 148 Parkland Ave. and 341 Harrow Blvd., charge $8 for residents and $10 for non-residents at the gate. The fine print is that a non-resident has to arrive with a Gahanna resident or a current pool member to buy that day pass; the alternative is a non-resident membership. Kids 2 and under are free, and the splash pad at Parkland runs through the back-to-school stretch after the main pool closes.

Pickerington Community Pool

Day passes are $10, sold only at the pool, and only to two kinds of people: a season pass holder’s guests (two per pass holder) or an adult 21 or older who can show a Pickerington school district address. Everyone else needs a season pass, which goes on sale April 1. The pool is closed on weekdays once Pickerington schools are back in session in mid-August.

Minerva Park Pool

The village pool at 5300 Valley Rd. is a membership club, and it does take non-residents: the pool’s site lists a Classic membership at $137 for one village resident and $167 for a non-resident, with a cheaper weekend-and-evening tier and a premium tier alongside. There’s no walk-up daily admission, but a member can buy $15 guest passes ($20 on holidays), which is the way in for the rest of us. The season runs Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

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