Patton Recreation Center — Attraction in Detroit

My little brother comes here for swimming. It was going to be my first time seeing him swim but I come here to be disappointed.

No communication between coaches, parents, workers and facility.

You dont find out practice is canceled until you come and leave you kid.

They were nice enough to give them "free swim time", for the time they wasted to get here but 5 minutes in the workers made them get out the pool and clean up after the group before. Why??

Poor kids had to wait to be let in but were never given the okay to get back in...my little brother didnt want to stay anymore and decided to leave and all the little kids followed.

I feel bad for them. Anyways, only good thing about here is that it is free.

I just hope things get better if not there will definitely be more complaints...

I think this is a city of Detroit Recreation Department facility. There are many different offices also hosted in this building. Parking can be sketchy if you come during events. there is a pool here as well as a gym and a huge soccer field. the city of Detroit id center is also located right inside of the front door. I suggest you stop by if you're in the area and look around in the building since there is so much available here. friendly Community Based Services available to...

Beautiful building surrounded by a huge area of clean, green parks. The facilities are very neat and I love the variety of activities you can do here. The pool looked awesome and my favorite is the weight and cardio rooms that have plenty of equipment to use!! And also, for us Detroiters, the recreation center is three minutes from the DDOT #1 Vernor route, so it is accessible for those who may not exactly live in the surrounding neighborhood, but is definitely...