The Aquatic Center and the Rec Complex, Roy's two pools and which one to use when

The outdoor pool opens at noon and closes at six Tuesday through Saturday, stays open until eight on Monday, and is closed every Sunday. The season runs about ten weeks, roughly late May through late August, with a few added days into early September. The exact dates shift from year to year, so confirm the current season with the aquatic center at 801-774-8590 before the first trip of the summer.

A single day is a few dollars for an adult, a little less for children from four to seven and for anyone sixty five and over, and free for children under four. A ten visit punch pass costs less per swim and is a touch cheaper for Roy residents, and a group of twenty or more booked together pays a lower rate a head. There is also a flat family pass sold only on Monday nights. Roy sets every figure in a published fee schedule, so confirm the current price with the city.

Monday is family night. Roy sells a flat family pass that works only on Monday evenings, and it is the one aquatic center ticket priced per household rather than per person. The two extra hours exist to make room for it, so the pool runs noon to eight on Monday against noon to six every other day it is open. For a household of four or more, that Monday pass is the cheapest evening in the water in this part of the county.

An indoor pool used for lap, exercise and open swim plus lessons and water aerobics; a weight room with cardio equipment and machines; locker rooms with private changing areas and showers; a gym with eight basketball hoops; pickleball courts; an indoor track where nineteen laps make a mile; an aerobics room for fitness classes; and two racquetball courts. The building sits at 2150 W 4700 S on a 38.5 acre municipal block shared with Roy High School, and it is open five in the morning to nine at night on weekdays, eight to eight on Saturday from Labor Day to Memorial Day (noon to six in summer), and closed Sunday.

Not at the indoor complex. The pool there is given to lap and exercise swim from early morning until the early afternoon on weekdays and through the late morning on Saturday, and, from Labor Day to Memorial Day, to open swim only in the weekday evenings and on Saturday. So the middle of a weekday afternoon is the one window when the building is open and the pool is not doing what most visitors want. In summer the complex moves open swim up to 2 p.m. Monday to Thursday and noon on Friday, and the outdoor Aquatic Center opens at noon every day it is open.

The complex sells a monthly pass and a yearly membership, with resident rates below non resident and lower rates for young people and for anyone sixty five and over. A family membership starts from the adult rate and adds each extra person for a small amount. A single day at the door is only a few dollars, so a membership pays off for anyone using the pool, gym, track or courts more than a handful of times a month. Roy publishes the current figures in its fee schedule, so check them with the city before you sign up.

Pickleball holds the courts every weekday morning, and open basketball has them the rest of the day. Basketball half court reservations are a winter arrangement only, on Saturday mornings from November through March. Racquetball and wallyball book in one hour sessions either the day before or the day of. And whatever you book, the complex holds a court for fifteen minutes past your start time and then releases it, which is the house rule that costs somebody a slot exactly once.

Two ways. You can reserve the West Bowery, in which case your group pays a lower per person rate at the gate than a walk up. Or the city rents the whole pool for a private evening in summer, Tuesday to Saturday between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with a published capacity of about a thousand people. Bookings for the private evenings open early in January, residents first, so call the aquatic center at 801-774-8590 well ahead for current rates and dates.

Registration opens on the second Monday of each month at eight in the morning, through the city's online recreation booking site rather than at the desk. Preschool and leveled lessons run for a modest course fee, and water aerobics runs alongside them with a member discount and a drop in rate for a single class. The second Monday timing is worth putting in a diary, because the popular sessions do not sit around.