Warm summer days are for water play, and there’s no better way to cool down and get some exercise than by making a splash (literally) with the various swimming and water play options in Elk Grove! Take a plunge by joining a swim club, registering for swim classes or stopping by one of Cosumnes CSD’s Spray Grounds for some fun in the sun.

Competitive Swim Teams

Elk Grove Aquatic Club Gators 

Elk Grove Aquatics Club is a year-round, competitive swim league that has been providing a positive experience for swimmers of all ages for over 20 years. Their home pool is The Elk Grove Aquatics Center.

Piranhas Aquatic Club

The Elk Grove Piranhas is another year-round competitive recreational swim team that has been providing a positive swimming experience for swimmers and families for almost 60 years, and they swim at the beautiful Elk Grove Aquatic Center.

Recreational Swim Facilities

Cosumnes CSD Parks & Recreation Department operates three aquatic facilities, and each has its own operating hours and admission fees. For details on operating hours or admission fees, call 916-405-5600.

 

Elk Grove Aquatics Center

9701 Big Horn Blvd., Elk Grove 

The Elk Grove Aquatics Center features a combination of pools designed to serve competitive aquatics, instruction, water fitness and family recreation. It includes a 50-meter competition pool, and it boasts four diving boards. There’s also an instructional pool designed for younger swimmers, a recreational pool with a lazy river, an inflatable obstacle course and two 30-foot water slides.

Wackford Aquatic Complex

9014 Bruceville Road, Elk Grove 

Wackford Aquatic Complex is your year-round community water park, and it is so much more than your average swimming pool! It’s home to the 45-foot-long-by-9-foot-high inflatable obstacle course called Double Trouble, as well as the 160-foot single-rider waterslide called Typhoon Tower. Your little ones will love Splash Island, a shallow wading pool with an interactive splash playground. 

Jerry Fox Swim Center

9950 Elk Grove Florin Road, Elk Grove 

The Jerry Fox Swim Center, located within Elk Grove Park, is a seasonal facility that provides opportunities to laugh, splash and play. Although smaller than the other two pools, it is home to a 140-foot waterslide called Clyde’s Plunge and a 25-yard swimming pool with six lanes. It is surrounded by oak trees that provide plenty of shade, and you’ll also find picnic tables. 

Spray Grounds & Water Play

Seasonal Hours: Open daily May-September, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 

Cosumnes CSD offers parks with spray ground and water play features that have little or no standing water and offer a safe and welcoming playground where children of all abilities can come and play together. There are ground nozzles and water downspouts that spray water upwards out of the splash deck. Your little ones can run through a tunnel of spray rings or just cool off under towering dump buckets that fill with water! Below are three spray grounds that locals love:

Derr-Okamoto Park: 9550 Mainline Drive, Elk Grove

Morse Community Park: 5540 Bellaterra Drive, Elk Grove

Oasis Park: 8015 Poppy Ridge Road, Elk Grove

Swim Lessons

Cosumnes CSD Aquatics Swim Lessons Program

916-405-5600

Swim lessons are available at all of the Cosumnes CSD aquatics facilities. All classes are taught by trained instructors and are available as private, semi-private or group lessons. Register online, and be sure to register early because these lessons fill up quickly!

SafeSplash Swim School

2060 Longport Court, Elk Grove

916-550-3200

SafeSplash Swim School is a year-round provider of warm water swim lessons for kids and adults and teaches all skill levels ranging from the fundamentals of water safety to competitive instruction. 

Sunshine Swim & Fitness Center

9360 Elk Grove Florin Road, Suite 4

916-685-7462

Sunshine Swim Center offers swim lessons to all ages, infants to adults, as well as at-home swim lessons, kids camps and pool parties.

Water Fitness

916-405-5600

Water Fitness (aerobics) is quickly becoming the top adult exercise program in the nation and is available year-round through the Cosumnes CSD at the Elk Grove Aquatic Center and the Wackford Aquatic Complex. With ease of motion and limited resistance, these classes provide a great healthy alternative to traditional impact fitness. There are many class options, including Deep Water Fitness, Aqua Spin, Shallow Water Fitness and more.

 

Did You Know?

The K&A Spease Foundation helps increase access to the aquatic facilities through the Making Waves Recreation Adventures (RAD) Scholarship, designed to provide access to swim lessons by providing a swimsuit, goggles, towel and two sessions of swim lessons for the underserved children in the Elk Grove community. 

Local Tip

"The Cosumnes CSD Activity Guide is the perfect way to find fun things to do in Elk Grove. It’s published in April, August and December so you can stay up-to-date with parks and rec activities and events for the whole family. Check it out at YourCSD.com."

— Erin P.