The pool Clearfield
A published fee card, a members only hour, and a shared use agreement twenty one years old
The Aquatic Center, and how a city builds a pool its voters turned down.
Eight dollars for an adult, six for a youth, three for a child of three and under, at 825 South State Street. Inside are a lazy river, a lap pool, a hot tub, a seasonal outdoor splash pad, a weight room, an indoor track and courts. Clearfield residents voted against extra taxes for it, so the council funded it with $11 million of revenue bonds instead, about $9 million into the pool and gymnasium and $1.5 million into a park across town. It opened in June 2005 attached to a junior high, and the courts still close when school is in.
I work Southern Utah, four hours and a mountain range away from the north end of Davis County, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is issued: the city's own parks, aquatic, public works and development pages at clearfield.city, its August 2026 newsletter, its 2024 water use filing with the state, the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service on the naval depot, the Utah Historical Quarterly account written the year the depot was sold, the codified state highway definition at le.utah.gov, the Freeport Center operator's own tenant directory, the North Davis Sewer District and the presidential remarks of January 1967. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
What does a day at the Clearfield pool cost, and what do you actually get for it?
Eight dollars for an adult, six for a youth of four to seventeen, three for a child of three and under, and a dollar off each for a group of fifteen or more. That is the city's own published day pass card at the Clearfield Aquatic and Fitness Center, 825 South State Street, checked in August 2026. What that buys is an indoor leisure pool with a lazy river, a lap pool, a hot tub, an outdoor splash pad in season, a weight room, cardio equipment, an indoor track, indoor basketball courts and group fitness classes, in one municipal building.
The membership card is separate and the resident split is worth knowing about. The city's membership page, read the same day, gives an individual membership at $29.99 a month for a resident and $39.99 for a non resident, with a second individual at ten dollars a month and each additional dependent at five, with no enrolment fee and no cancellation fee. Childcare is included with a child membership, runs an hour and a half at a time, and takes ages from six weeks to twelve years.
Two published access rules shape the day more than the price does. The first hour of the day is members only, at five to six in the morning Monday to Friday and six to seven on Saturday. And the basketball courts and the indoor track are unavailable during school hours, which is not an operational quirk but the visible edge of a twenty one year old agreement with the school district, because the building is attached to a junior high school and always has been. That arrangement is the reason this page exists rather than a paragraph on the county family page, and that county page is where the rest of the county's paid days out are priced.
The centre, in numbers
$8
adult day pass, on the city's own card
72,000
square feet, per the 2005 opening report
$11M
of revenue bonds behind the project
2005
the year it opened, in June
The record
The whole published fee and access card in one place, with the date it was checked on it.
Municipal recreation pricing changes annually and it is published in three different places on the city's own site, which is why it is worth having in one table with a date attached. Everything below is Clearfield City's own, checked in August 2026, and every line of it should be re-checked at the city before it is relied on.
| What the city publishes | The detail underneath it | How it plays out | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult day pass | $8.00 for ages 18 and over | One price for the whole building, pools and fitness side together | There is no swim only or gym only day rate published, so the day pass is the whole facility |
| Youth day pass | $6.00 for ages 4 to 17 | The 4 to 17 band is wide and there is no separate teen rate | A family of two adults and two youths is $28 on the published card |
| Small children | $3.00 for children 3 and under | The city charges under threes rather than admitting them free | Worth knowing before you arrive with a toddler expecting nothing to pay |
| Groups | $1.00 off admission for all individuals in a group of 15 or more | Applies per person across the whole group | A group of twenty adults saves twenty dollars, which is a real difference for an organised outing |
| Individual membership | $29.99 a month for a resident, $39.99 for a non resident | No enrolment fee and no cancellation fee | A ten dollar a month resident advantage, which is one of the few places a city line here has a direct price consequence |
| Adding people | A second individual at $10 a month, each additional dependent at $5 | Childcare is included with a child membership | A household of four residents lands well under two day passes a week |
| Childcare | Ages 6 weeks to 12 years, an hour and a half at a time | Included with a child membership rather than sold separately | The hour and a half is the constraint to plan around, not the age range |
| Members only hour | 5:00am to 6:00am Monday to Friday, 6:00am to 7:00am Saturday | Published on the membership page rather than the main page | A day pass will not get you in during that window, which catches people out |
| School hours | Basketball courts and indoor track unavailable during school hours | The visible edge of a shared use agreement with the junior high | If courts or the track are the reason you are going, go outside the school day or outside term time |
All rows are Clearfield City's own published figures at its aquatic and fitness pages, checked in August 2026. Municipal fees are reviewed annually and access rules move with the school calendar, so treat this as a dated snapshot and verify at the city before relying on any line of it. The city publishes its full daily schedule on a separate calendar that changes with the school year, which is why no opening hour is printed here.
The details
Getting there
It is straight down State Street from the city centre, on the east side at about 825 South, and the junior high shares the site so the approach reads as a school campus rather than as a leisure centre. The pavilion beside it is one of the city's bookable ones, listed on the parks page as Fisher and Aquatic Center, which is a reminder that this building and the sixteen acre park a short distance away were funded out of the same borrowing.
Before you go
- The first hour of the day is members only and a day pass will not open the door during it. Check the day before you set an early alarm.
- The courts and the indoor track close during school hours because the building is shared with the school next door. That is published and it is not negotiable at the desk.
- The splash pad is outdoors and seasonal; the lazy river, lap pool and hot tub are indoors and are not.
- The city runs its full schedule on a calendar that changes with the school year, so confirm the hours at the city rather than from any page describing them.
How it got built
The residents voted against the tax, and the council found a different instrument.
This is the part of the building nobody puts on a listing and it is the most interesting thing about it. According to the Deseret News report of its opening on 24 June 2005, Clearfield residents voted against extra taxes for a new swimming pool and the related complex. The City Council then funded the project with $11 million in revenue bonds, of which about $9 million went to the pool and gymnasium and about $1.5 million to improvements at Fisher Park. The building opened on 6 June 2005.
That sequence deserves to be written carefully rather than as a gotcha, because it is neither unusual nor improper. A general obligation tax increase and a revenue bond are two different instruments with two different repayment sources: the first is repaid from a levy that voters approve, the second from the revenue the facility itself generates and other pledged sources, and the second does not require the same vote. A council that uses the second after the first fails is doing something lawful and ordinary. What the sequence does tell you is how much this city wanted the building, and it also explains, twenty one years later, why the place has a fee card at all rather than being free at the point of use.
The $1.5 million that went to Fisher Park in the same borrowing is the detail that ties the two together. The city's second largest park and its municipal pool were funded in one instrument, and the pavilion at the pool is listed on the city's own parks page under a combined heading. If you are wondering why a sixteen acre park and a 72,000 square foot leisure building on opposite sides of State Street feel like one project, it is because financially they were one.
The other half of how it got built is the school district. The centre was constructed beside a new North Davis Junior High School, and the 2005 reporting sets out the arrangement in plain terms: under an agreement with the school, patrons share the basketball space with junior high gym classes, and the weight room serves double duty, with students taking precedence during school hours and the public taking it outside them. That is a twenty one year old shared use agreement and it is still visible in the published rules today, because the city still states that the courts and the indoor track are unavailable during school hours. The school itself is named here because it shares the building and for no other reason; assignment to it, or to any school, is the district's boundary tool to answer and nothing else. The park page carries the other half of the 2005 borrowing.
What was in it when it opened, and why those figures are not repeated as current
The 2005 reporting describes a leisure pool able to accommodate more than 400 swimmers and a lap pool of 3,500 square feet with six lanes, noting that six is two lanes short of the eight required to host regional meets. That six versus eight detail is exactly the sort of thing a swimming household wants to know and a brochure never prints, and it is also twenty one years old. The city publishes no pool dimensions at all today, so those figures are recorded here as what was reported at the opening and are not asserted as the current configuration.
What the city does publish today is the amenity list, and it has changed. The current page gives an indoor leisure pool with a lazy river, a lap pool, a hot tub and an outdoor splash pad, plus the weight room, cardio equipment, the indoor track, indoor basketball courts, group fitness classes and personal training. The practical city guide on this site still describes an indoor water park with slides and an outdoor pool, and neither slides nor an outdoor pool is on the city's current list. That has been reported as a finding rather than fixed here.
Nine million dollars of revenue bond went into the pool and the gym, one and a half million went into a park across town, and the courts still close when the school bell rings.
The size
The number everybody quotes for this building is a number for three buildings.
A figure of 242,406 square feet is attached to this building almost everywhere it is described, and it does not belong to it. The single source for it is the architect's own project page, which gives 242,406 square feet and in the same breath describes a master plan that included a new aquatic centre, a new North Davis Junior High school and a sixteen acre city park. That is a three part campus figure. The building is one of the three parts.
The arithmetic settles it without needing anyone's opinion. The city funded the pool and gymnasium with about $9 million of an $11 million revenue bond issue in the early 2000s. Nine million dollars spread over 242,406 square feet is about $37 a square foot, in 2005, for a structure containing four separate bodies of water. That is not a possible construction cost for a natatorium at any point in the last half century. Nine million over 72,000 square feet is about $125 a square foot, which is an ordinary figure for that building type in that year.
Seventy two thousand square feet is the figure the Deseret News used when it reported the opening in June 2005, and it is the one this companion uses, attributed and dated. The city itself publishes no square footage for the building at all: its aquatic and fitness page carries the address, the fees, the memberships and the amenities and no building size. Where a city does not publish a number, the honest options are a dated attribution to a contemporaneous report or no number, and this page takes the first.
Two related figures also get attached to this building loosely. The 2005 pool capacity and lane count are twenty one years old, as above. And the city's August 2026 newsletter recorded that the centre had been voted the best facility in Davis County, which is an award claim reported by the city about itself; it appears here as a thing the newsletter said and not as a finding, on the same principle that keeps the fireworks superlative off the hub.
Do not use 242,406 square feet for this building, and do not treat the 2005 pool figures as the current configuration. The 242,406 figure comes from the architect's project page and describes a master plan that included the aquatic centre, a new junior high school and a sixteen acre park together. Spread over the roughly $9 million of revenue bond that built the pool and gymnasium it works out at about $37 a square foot in 2005, which is not a possible cost for a building holding a lazy river, a lap pool, a hot tub and a splash pad. The publishable size is 72,000 square feet, from the Deseret News report of 24 June 2005, and the city publishes no size of its own. The leisure pool capacity of more than 400 and the six lane, 3,500 square foot lap pool are from the same 2005 report and have not been re-verified since; check the current configuration at the city before planning around either.
Living with it
A municipal building with a school timetable sitting inside its opening hours.
The practical thing to understand about this centre, for a household deciding whether it is a reason to be in this city, is that it is genuinely municipal rather than a private club with a city badge on it. The price card is a public fee schedule, the resident membership is ten dollars a month below the non resident one, the childcare is included with a child membership rather than sold, and the whole thing is answerable to a council. What comes with that is a school timetable inside the opening hours, a members only window at the start of the day and a fee that gets reviewed every year.
For a swimming household the honest picture is a leisure building rather than a competition one. A lazy river, a leisure pool, a hot tub and a seasonal splash pad are the water, and the lap pool was reported at six lanes when it opened, which the same report noted was two short of what a regional meet needs. That has not been re-verified in twenty one years and the city publishes nothing about it, so anyone whose decision turns on lane count should ask at the desk rather than take it from any page.
For a fitness household the constraint is the school day. The courts and the indoor track close during school hours because the building is shared with the junior high next door under an agreement that predates almost everyone using it, and that is published rather than discretionary. The weight room, the cardio equipment and the pools are not subject to the same restriction, so what closes is specific and worth checking against how you would actually use the place.
The wider county picture is deliberately not on this page. What every other paid family day out in Davis County costs, when it is open and how the prices compare is written once on the county family page, with the date each price was read, which is the only sensible way to keep nine sets of annually revised figures honest. This page carries this building, its fee card and how the city came to have it. The mover page carries the rest of what an address here asks.
What a day costs
Family weekends in Davis County
Nine outings across the county, priced and seasoned in one place, with the free ones first.
Read the guideThe other half
Fisher Park
Sixteen acres funded out of the same borrowing, with a fourteen thousand square foot skate park on it.
Read the guideThe free option
Steed Park
Two parks either side of a pond, sixteen lit courts, and nothing at all to pay.
Read the guideMoving here
Clearfield or Layton
One bill, one sewer district, no irrigation water and a city line you cannot see from the street.
The mover pageThe practical side
The Clearfield city guide
The figures side of a Clearfield address, which this companion deliberately leaves alone.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Fourteen other towns between the lake and the mountain, indexed with the county subjects.
The region hubKeep reading
More of Clearfield on The Local.
The depot
The Freeport Center
841 acres of farms in 1942, 38 miles of track by 1943, and letters instead of streets.
Read the guideThe road
The Bernard Fisher Highway
A boy's gravel paper route became a state highway named for him after 1967.
Read the guideThe downtown
Clearfield Station
The city that never had a downtown is buying one, 28 million dollars of pipe first.
Read the guideThe courts
Steed Park
Two parks of 11.5 acres each, sixteen lit courts, and a curfew at midnight.
Read the guideThe park
Fisher Park
Sixteen acres, a 14,000 square foot skate park, and the town's one big night.
Read the guideMoving here
Clearfield or Layton
One bill, one sewer district, no irrigation water, and a grid that runs into Sunset.
Read the guideThe companion
Clearfield, in full
Two federal installations, no historic main street, and a downtown going in beside the platform.
Read the pageQuick answers
The Aquatic Center, answered.
On the city's own published day pass card, checked in August 2026: $8.00 for an adult of 18 and over, $6.00 for a youth of 4 to 17, $3.00 for a child of 3 and under, and a dollar off admission for every individual in a group of fifteen or more. Membership is $29.99 a month for a resident individual and $39.99 for a non resident, with a second individual at $10 a month and each additional dependent at $5, and no enrolment or cancellation fee. Municipal fees are reviewed annually, so confirm at the city before relying on any of it.
On the city's current published list: an indoor leisure pool with a lazy river, a lap pool, a hot tub, an outdoor splash pad, a weight room, cardio equipment, an indoor track, indoor basketball courts, group fitness classes and personal training, with childcare for ages six weeks to twelve years for up to an hour and a half. Note that the practical city guide on this site still describes an indoor water park with slides and an outdoor pool, and neither slides nor an outdoor pool appears on the city's current page. The splash pad is the outdoor water and it is seasonal.
72,000 square feet, on the Deseret News report of its opening dated 24 June 2005, which is the figure this page uses. The city publishes no building size at all. A figure of 242,406 square feet circulates widely and it comes from the architect's project page, where it describes a master plan covering the aquatic centre, a new North Davis Junior High school and a sixteen acre city park together. Spread across the roughly $9 million of revenue bond that built the pool and gymnasium, 242,406 square feet works out at about $37 a square foot in 2005, which is not a possible construction cost for a building with four bodies of water in it.
With revenue bonds, after a tax route failed. The Deseret News reported at the opening in June 2005 that residents had voted against extra taxes for a new swimming pool and related complex, and that the City Council then used $11 million in revenue bonds to fund the project, with about $9 million going to the pool and gymnasium and about $1.5 million to improvements at Fisher Park. A general obligation tax increase and a revenue bond are different instruments with different repayment sources, and using the second after the first fails is lawful and ordinary rather than a manoeuvre.
Because the building is shared with the school next door under an agreement that dates from its construction. The centre was built adjacent to a new North Davis Junior High School, and the 2005 reporting describes the arrangement plainly: patrons share the hoop space with junior high gym classes, and the weight room serves double duty, with students taking precedence during school hours and the public outside them. The city still publishes today that the basketball courts and the indoor track are unavailable during school hours, which is that twenty one year old agreement still showing through in the opening times.
The city's membership page publishes member exclusive access from 5:00am to 6:00am Monday to Friday and from 6:00am to 7:00am on Saturday. A day pass will not get you in during that window. The city publishes its full daily schedule on a separate calendar which changes with the school year and with the fitness class timetable, which is why no general opening hour is printed on this page. Confirm the current schedule at the city or on the telephone before planning an early start.
6 June 2005, according to the Deseret News report of 24 June 2005 that covered the opening. That report is also the source for the 72,000 square foot building size, for the $11 million revenue bond, for the split of about $9 million to the pool and gymnasium and $1.5 million to Fisher Park, and for the shared use arrangement with the junior high next door. The city itself has not been found to publish an opening date, so this one carries the newspaper's name and the date it was printed.
There is a lap pool and it is on the city's current amenity list. Whether it suits competitive use is a different question and the honest answer is dated: the 2005 opening report described a lap pool of 3,500 square feet with six lanes and noted that six is two lanes short of the eight required to host regional meets. That description is twenty one years old, the city publishes no pool dimensions today, and nothing has re-verified it since, so anybody whose decision depends on lane count should ask at the desk rather than take it from any page, including this one.
The city lists a bookable pavilion under a combined Fisher and Aquatic Center heading on its parks page, and publishes no fee figure for pavilion rentals anywhere on that page. What it does publish is the season and the process: applications are accepted from 1 March on a first come, first served basis, for reservations from 1 May through 30 September. The absence of a published fee is not the same as free, so ask the city what a reservation costs before assuming either way, and confirm the season, which is set annually.
A public fee card, a members hour and a school bell inside the opening times.
This building tells you more about how Clearfield works than any market summary would. The residents said no to a tax, the council found a lawful instrument that did not need the same vote, the pool went up beside a school and the two have shared a gym and a weight room ever since, and the same borrowing paid for improvements at a park across town. If you are weighing a Clearfield address partly on what the city provides, this is the thing to go and look at, and eight dollars will get you in to do it. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this city, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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