I have been swimming laps at Lone Tree for the pas...

I have been swimming laps at Lone Tree for the past 11 years and for the most part, all is well and I am able to get in my minimum one hour swim and crank out 35 continuous laps. A few times on my days off mid-week, I am able to get in as many as 88 laps, about 2.5 miles of swimming in 2.5 hours.

Opportunity for improvement would be some better communication regarding when there is open swim for the public. The pool schedule website previously showed WHEN there was open swim, but not it is confusing, it only shows when you cannot swim due to programming. I wish that the website could have an accurate, easy-to-understand and less-confusing about when the lap pool is open to the public for adult swim.

In the past, there were swim lessons that ended at 7:15 pm on Tuesday & Thursday nights. All signage as well as the front desk reasserted that the pool opens at 7:15 pm. However, I have observed swim lessons now going until 7:45 pm, confirmed to be accurate per the lifeguards (in contradiction with past-schedules, signage and the front desk), leaving me one hour left to swim my mile before the pool closes at 8:45 pm, cause a bit of a squeeze.

Nonetheless, the pool is quite nice and most of the time due to few other fellow lap swimmers, I am able to enjoy having my own lap lane to myself . Both hot tub and pool water are at a good temperatures. Everything appears to be clean and kept fairly-nice.

All staff has been very nice and polite to me. I have great affection towards the gradual sloping pool as well, because after I broke my leg ski jumping, this part of the pool is where I learned how to walk again, in addition walking against the lazy river during my physical therapy.

If you ever remodel, would really like single-person individual showers with shelves to put my shampoo and soap.

The Life Fitness treadmills are fantastic and I greatly-appreciate the wifi. Sometimes I am allowed to use the search bar in youtube to find videos to watch on the LifeFitness screen, other times I am funneled to put in my own personal google log-in or facebook log in, which I would rather not get saved on the machine and risk another user accessing my account. Nonetheless, they are wonderful machines and great to use.

Of course the facility could be larger, but what I like is the less-than-corresponding crowds to compete with to swim my laps or use the fitness equipment. While there is programming such as AquaFitness and Swim Lessons, unlike Parker and Castle Rock, there are not swim teams that frequently dominate the lap pool and sometimes completely squeeze out the public from being able to swim laps too.

I drive to Lone Tree from Elizabeth, Colorado - passing up both Castle Rock and Parker Rec Center to drive the extra 10 minutes to Lone Tree, primarily because I am generally able to be afforded the opportunity to swim laps, which can be problematic at the other two rec centers.