North Beach Pool — Local services in San Francisco

I am a retired professional swimmer, new to the city, and looking for my new spot to swim laps. North Beach Pool was just OK.

The pool is located in a bustling part of San Francisco- right on Lombard, and you can expect to circle the block for parking. I did expect this ahead of time, and was pleasantly surprised to only circle once & find parking on Chestnut- just 1 block away. $7 is the fee for lap swim, standard at all SF city pools. When I visited in April 2022, they were only accepting cash.

The North Beach Pool has an interesting set up. There are actually 2 separate pools in this facility- one “cold” pool, ranging between 77-78° F, and one “warm” pool, ranging between 86-88° F. The differing temperatures in the two distinct pools strike me as odd. The temperatures aren’t as extreme as you might find in a day spa- contrasting a hot tub session with a cold plunge. It was a small facility, and I would anticipate that 4 lanes total, 2 for serious lap swimmers, would get crowded at times. However, when I visited, there were max 3 people in the cold pool, which was manageable.

The locker rooms are shabby and could use some updating- but the basics are there. There is a communal shower space, lockers for day use, and curtained changed areas, and a swim suit dryer. Although it is definitely dated, it didn’t feel particularly dirty or inadequate.

The North Beach pool space is definitely a bare-bones facility, but the warm pool and the sauna make this a good spot for anyone seeking warm water therapy or just a nice recovery...

Worst experience of all swimming pools over The whole United States of America.

Lifesaver was really sheep towards another customer who thought that there is something inappropriate to take a shower naked and the customer took his right to claim about it. Obviously it will harm somehow the child if he sees penis of a grown up man. Straight spined lifesaver would have counterargumented to that customer properly.

In shower area I got personally requested to leave the premises because of this extreme nudity.

Good place to go if you are not willing to wash properly your groin and penis and like to wear swimsuit in shower.

Sauna is not real. There is no water to be thrown on the stove so there is not really use for a relatively warm not-humid room.

A lot of dust on the lockers.

One star comes from that the showers work technically somehow and the...

The North Beach Pool has an interesting set up. There are actually 2 separate pools in this facility- one “cold” pool, ranging between 77-78° F, and one “warm” pool, ranging between 86-88° F. The differing temperatures in the two distinct pools strike me as odd. The temperatures aren’t as extreme as you might find in a day spa- contrasting a hot tub session with a cold plunge. It was a small facility, and I would anticipate that 4 lanes total, 2 for serious lap swimmers, would get crowded at times. However, when I visited, there were max 3 people in the cold pool, which...