Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Public pools will reopen to San Francisco residents in mid-June as COVID-19 positives continue to drop, leading to more activities continuing to be reinstated, San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department officials said.
So far, only the Mission District's Mission Community Pool, the city's only public outdoor pool, has reopened.
However, next week, on April 20, the Martin Luther King Jr. Pool in the Bayview District and the Sava Pool in the Sunset District will reopen their facilities.
They will be joined by the newly renovated Garfield Pool, also in the Mission District, and North Beach Pool and Coffman Pool in Visitacion Valley, which will reopen May 1 and May 17, respectively.
By June 1, Balboa Pool will be back in business, Hamilton Pool in the Western Addition neighborhood will open on June 7, and by the middle of that month, Rossi Pool in the Richmond District, which is currently undergoing a renovation project, will be ready to open its doors.
For now, only Mission Pool, Martin Luther King Jr. Pool and Sava Pool will welcome back swimmers and those interested in taking drowning prevention classes, but only by reservation, Rec and Park officials said.
In that regard, swimmers over the age of 14 interested in signing up for one-hour lap swim sessions or drowning prevention classes can visit www.sfrecpark.org/register.
It is important to know that visitors to these centers will be given temperature checks before entering the building and will be required to wear masks when swimmers are out of the water.
The city entered the orange level of the state's reopening guidelines last month, the measure allowed outdoor pools to reopen at 50 percent capacity and indoor pools at 25 percent capacity.
