Provo Recreation Center

They’ve canceled the fun dance classes called dirtylicious. Yes the name is a little funny but this class is all about empowering people to move their bodies and to be comfortable doing so! These classes teach you to do the best you can and not to compare yourself to other people. It’s a shame that Provo city can’t support the dance community even after dirtylicious was willing to collaborate on a plan.

We love the Provo Recreation Center. It has a great indoor pool for the cold months, and the outdoor pool is excellent with plenty of grass space to lay out blankets and coolers. The basketball courts see a lot of games in the early mornings and evenings if you want to play pickup. The pickleball courts are set up inside and outside at certain times. The app is so easy to use and schedule classes. It's very clean, plenty of equipment and even has a fun indoor play area in the cold months which is free to use (no pass required).

I worked out at the Rec for a year and I hated working out every, single day. If you like waiting 30 minutes for a machine, then this is the place for you. For how small the gym is, there needs to be some sort of limit for how many people work out there. Trust me, if you’re just getting a membership for the gym, I would’ve rather gone to a planet fitness, even that would’ve been better and had a more diverse set of machines and weights.

Great rec center with lots of equipment, indoor track, exercise classes, childcare for young kids, indoor playground that is open to the public only during specific hours, indoor and outdoor pools, and an indoor competition pool, billiard tables, indoor basketball courts, racquetball courts, and outdoor skate/skateboard park. There is something for everyone! My kids love the indoor playground and indoor pool. The indoor pool has a hot tub (only for 15 years and older), lazy river, pool that is 3-4 feet deep, climbing walls over a pole, and a water play place. There are two large indoor slides but they aren't always running. I personally did not have great experiences with the childcare center when I tried it. I've known people who had good experiences with it. 9 out of 10 of my experiences with indoor swimming lessons for my kids were satisfactory to quite good. The 1 out of 10 was terrible (my child in the youngest child group nearly drowned while the teacher had her back turned to the group while she taught one child. I yelled to get the teacher's attention while the lifeguard watching the pool did nothing. The head lifeguard was very apologetic afterward. I was constantly vigilant watching all my kids swimming lessons after that.). So I'd say the swimming lessons are likely going to be fine, but be watching if you have young kids taking lessons for their safety because there is not great supervision.

This is a valuable community resource; so valuable to this, and surrounding, communities that is suggest that other cities should take note. Our family was visiting the area in July 2024, and we went to the Provo Recreation Center - and we were blown away. The availability of activities was exciting to see, and taking the decent price into account made this location all the more impressive! There were so many activities (i.e., slides, lazy river, wet wall climbing, wave poo,l obstacle courses, etc.) for every member of a family, that spending 5 hours on one day didn't seem completely sufficient (we didn't go back on that trip, but we could have). Admittedly, we noted that everything wasn't perfect (i.e., while the staff were generally great, a couple life guards were a bit 'over' intense; and we waited for at least 45 minutes for the waves (scheduled for every 15-minutes, at the wave pool, to start... and still missed that experience); but we weren't expecting perfection ... and this was a definite 5-star ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ location. I also can't speak on the quality of the concession food - we brought our own snacks, which was allowed (which is another reason why this is an amazing location/resource). Cities that offer these types of resources, to their families, should be commended for their fiscal prudence clearly represented in the value they are providing.