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Two buildings, two seasons and a fee table adopted by ordinance

The Aquatic Center and the Rec Complex, Roy's two pools and what each one costs.

Roy owns two swimming pools under two different roofs. The outdoor Aquatic Center runs about ten weeks from late May, noon to six, and to eight on Monday because that is family pass night. The indoor Recreation Complex is open all year from five in the morning, and five dollars buys an adult a pool, a weight room, an eight hoop gym, two racquetball courts and an indoor track. Both are shut on Sunday. Here is every hour, every price and the three house rules nobody explains at the door.

By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah Updated August 2026

The short answer

Roy runs two swimming pools in two different buildings with two different seasons, and picking the right one is mostly about the month and the hour. The outdoor Roy Aquatic Center at 2977 W 5200 S opens from late May to late August, noon to six, and to eight on Monday, at eight dollars for an adult. The indoor Roy Recreation Complex at 2150 W 4700 S is open all year from five in the morning to nine at night on weekdays, at five dollars for an adult, and it holds a pool, a weight room, an eight hoop gym, two racquetball courts and an indoor track. Both are closed on Sunday. Checked August 2026.

Where 2977 W 5200 S outdoors, 2150 W 4700 S indoors
From city hall 1.6 miles and 0.7 miles
Season Outdoors late May to late August, indoors all year
Cost $8 outdoors, $5 indoors, both free under 4
Status Both closed Sunday, every week of the year

The live question


Which Roy pool should you go to, and can you swim in the middle of a weekday?

The second half of that question is the one that catches people, so take it first. At the indoor complex, no, not usually. The pool is given to lap and exercise swim from five in the morning until one in the afternoon on weekdays and from eight until noon on Saturday. Open swim, the sort where a family gets in together, runs weekday evenings from five until half past eight and Saturday afternoons from noon until six. Between one and five on a Tuesday the building is open and the pool is not doing what most visitors want it to do.

The outdoor pool has the simpler answer and the shorter season. It opens at noon every day it is open, closes at six, and stays until eight on Monday. That Monday evening exists because of a forty dollar family pass that applies only on Monday nights, which is a deliberate piece of civic pricing and the cheapest way to get four or more people into water in this part of the county.

So the rule of thumb is this. Summer afternoons with children, outdoors. Winter, weather, or anything before breakfast, indoors. Weekday evenings for a family swim indoors, Saturday afternoon if the evening does not work. And nothing at all on a Sunday, because both buildings are shut every Sunday of the year without exception.

One honest limit on what anybody can tell you about the outdoor pool: Roy City lists no features for it. Slides, a wader pool and diving boards all appear in descriptions elsewhere, none of which is the city speaking. If the shape of the water matters to your day, the city's aquatic center number is 801-774-8590 and that is the way to settle it. Checked August 2026.

One outdoors, one indoors


Two buildings, two seasons, and a three dollar difference at the door.

Everything a household needs to choose between them, side by side. Every figure is Roy City's own, from the facility pages and from the consolidated fee schedule the council adopted as Ordinance 26-7.

Roy Aquatic CenterRoy Recreation Complex
Where2977 W 5200 S, on the west side of the grid2150 W 4700 S, on a municipal block shared with the high school
SeasonLate May to late August, plus three named days at the start of SeptemberAll year
HoursNoon to six, and noon to eight on Monday. Closed SundayFive in the morning to nine at night on weekdays, eight to eight Saturday. Closed Sunday
Adult admission$8 from ages 8 to 65$5 from ages 8 to 64
Children and seniors$7 from 4 to 7 and from 65, free under 4$4 from 4 to 7 and from 65, free under 4
Ten punch pass$70 resident, $75 non resident$40 for 8 to 64, $30 for children and from 65
MembershipNone. It is a seasonal pool$35 a month resident, $45 non resident, with resident year rates from $125
What else is in thereThe city publishes no feature list at allWeight room, eight hoop gym, pickleball, two racquetball courts, aerobics room, indoor track
RentableWest Bowery $125, or the whole place in the evening at $1,500Basketball court $45, aerobics room $50

Read at Roy City's aquatic center and recreation complex pages and in the city's consolidated fee schedule, Ordinance 26-7, August 2026. The city publishes no parking note and no lot size for either building, and no acreage for either site beyond the assessor's record of a 38.5 acre municipal parcel at the complex.

The three dollar gap between the two doors is worth pausing on, because it points at what each building is for. The outdoor pool is a summer afternoon and it is priced like one. The complex is a year of ordinary use and it is priced like that instead: five dollars a visit, thirty five dollars a month, three hundred dollars a resident year for an adult, and a hundred and twenty five for a resident from sixty five. For anybody who is going to use a gym more than seven times in a month, the membership pays for itself before the month is out.

The family rates go the other way. There is no membership at the outdoor pool because there is no year to sell, so the ten punch pass at seventy dollars and the Monday family pass at forty are the two ways to make a summer cheaper. At the complex a resident family membership starts at three hundred dollars a year for the base member with twenty five dollars for each additional member, which is the cheapest way in this city to give several people a whole year of swimming.

The two buildings, in numbers

$5

an adult day at the indoor complex, against $8 at the outdoor pool

19

laps of the indoor track to make a mile, on the city's own count

8

hoops in the complex gym, plus pickleball and two racquetball courts

1,000

the published capacity when the outdoor pool is booked for an evening

The Roy Aquatic Center


Ten weeks a year, one late night a week, and a booking calendar that opens in January.

The city's outdoor pool sits at 2977 W 5200 S, out where the grid opens up, on the low western side of the city. Two separate Roy City pages give the same address, which is worth saying because a different city building does not manage that. The number is 801-774-8590 and the season, as the city prints it, runs from the twenty third of May to the twenty second of August, with three extra operating days tacked on afterwards: the last Saturday of August, the first Saturday of September and the Monday after it. The city's own page prints those dates without a year against them, so confirm the current season before the first trip of the summer.

The daily rhythm is short and it does not vary. Noon to six, Tuesday through Saturday. Noon to eight on Monday. Closed on Sunday. Ten weeks, six days, six hours a day, and two extra hours once a week. That is the whole of the outdoor swimming this city owns, and it is why the ten punch pass gets bought in June rather than in August.

The prices are plain: eight dollars from eight to sixty five, seven dollars from four to seven and from sixty five, free under four. Ten punches cost seventy dollars if you live in Roy and seventy five if you do not, which works out at seven dollars a swim either way, so the pass is a convenience as much as a discount. A group of twenty or more booked together pays seven dollars a head. And the Monday night family pass is forty dollars for a family, which is the only ticket on the whole schedule that is not priced per person.

The rental side is where the pool becomes a venue. The West Bowery goes for a hundred and twenty five dollars, and a group that has booked a bowery pays six dollars a head at the gate instead of eight. Bigger than that, the city rents the whole place in the evening: fifteen hundred dollars, plus a five hundred dollar early booking fee, Tuesday to Saturday from half past six to half past eight, Memorial Day to Labor Day, with a published capacity of a thousand people.

The details

Where 2977 W 5200 S, Roy, on 801-774-8590
From city hall About 1.6 miles, 5 minutes
Season Late May to late August, plus three days in early September
Cost $8 an adult, $7 for children and from 65, free under 4
Time needed An afternoon

Getting there

West out of city hall on 5100 South, pick up 5200 South, then a mile and a half west. The pool is on the western half of the grid and the ground has fallen about 170 feet by the time you get there, which is why the wind off the flats feels different at this end of town. Roy publishes no parking note for the site, so leave a margin on a hot Saturday.

Before you go

  • Monday is the long day and the family pass day. Every other day the gates shut at six.
  • Closed Sunday, all season. There is no exception published anywhere.
  • To book the whole pool for an evening, act in January: residents can reserve from eight in the morning on the first working day of the year, everybody else from the second.
  • The city publishes no list of what is in the water, and no rule about outside food, life jackets or supervision. Ring 801-774-8590 rather than assuming.
  • Twenty or more people is a group booking at seven dollars a head, which is one transaction instead of twenty at the window.

The Roy Recreation Complex


Open at five in the morning, and it is the best five dollars in the city.

The complex at 2150 W 4700 S is the busiest building Roy owns and the one that carries the city through the nine months when the outdoor pool is drained. The county assessor shows a municipally owned parcel of 38.52 acres at that address, shared with Roy High School, which is why the site feels bigger than a recreation center usually does. The city's own page lists what is inside: a pool running 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; basketball courts with eight hoops; pickleball courts; an indoor track where nineteen laps make a mile; an aerobics room; and two racquetball courts.

Doors are five in the morning to nine at night Monday to Friday, eight to eight on Saturday, and closed Sunday. Five dollars gets an adult from eight to sixty four in for the day, four dollars covers children from four to seven and anybody from sixty five, and under fours are free. Ten punch passes run forty dollars for adults and thirty for everybody else. That is a genuinely low door price for a building with that much in it, and it is the single best argument for a Roy address that nobody makes.

The memberships are where a household should actually start. A month is thirty five dollars for a resident and forty five for a non resident. A resident year is three hundred dollars for an adult with a thirty dollar electronic payment charge, a hundred and ninety for a young person from eight to seventeen, and a hundred and twenty five from sixty five. A family membership starts from the same three hundred dollar base with twenty five dollars for each additional member. Non residents pay roughly twenty per cent more across the board.

Lessons, aerobics and leagues, with what each costs

Swim lessons are fifty dollars for the pre school course and fifty five for levels one through six, and registration opens on the second Monday of each month at eight in the morning through the city's booking site. That is a diary entry rather than a walk in, and the popular levels do not sit around.

Water aerobics is forty dollars for an adult course and thirty from sixty five, with a seven dollar drop in if you would rather try it once, and members take ten dollars off the course price. Room hire is fifty dollars for the aerobics room and forty five for a basketball court.

The outdoor program runs on the same ordinance. A playing field is ten dollars an hour, fifteen if it is lit, with field preparation at fifty dollars on a weekday and seventy five at the weekend, and a tournament or event fee of two hundred and fifty. League fees run from fifty five to a hundred and eighty five dollars a participant, with four hundred and fifty for an adult softball team, and there is a ten dollar late registration charge and a ten dollar non resident surcharge on top.

The details

Where 2150 W 4700 S, Roy, on 801-774-1050
From city hall About 0.7 miles, 3 minutes
Season All year, closed Sunday
Cost $5 an adult, or $35 a month for a resident
Time needed One to two hours

Getting there

North on 1900 West from city hall to 4700 South, then west two blocks. It shares a block with Roy High School, so on a game night the car park is doing two jobs. Use 2150 W 4700 S and not the other address one of the city's own subpages prints for this building, which is city hall a mile and a half away.

Before you go

  • Five in the morning to nine at night on weekdays. Eight to eight on Saturday. Closed Sunday.
  • Open swim is evenings and Saturday afternoon. Weekday middays belong to lap and exercise swim.
  • Swim lesson registration opens the second Monday of the month at eight in the morning, online.
  • A month is thirty five dollars for a resident, which beats seven single visits.
  • Nineteen laps of the indoor track make a mile. Count in nineteens and the maths gets easy.

Living with it


Two buildings, one Sunday, and a fee schedule anybody can read.

Set against the neighbouring cities, what Roy has here is not fancy but it is complete and it is cheap, and the pricing is set by ordinance rather than by whoever is on the desk. A household that uses the complex twice a week is spending thirty five dollars a month for a pool, a gym, a track and courts. A household with small children gets ten weeks of outdoor water at eight dollars a head, or forty dollars a Monday night for the lot of them. There is no second municipal pool anywhere in the city and no private club filling the gap, so these two buildings are the whole of it.

Two practical limits belong in the same paragraph. The first is Sunday, which closes both buildings every week of the year, so a household whose only free day is Sunday should know that going in. The second is the outdoor season, which is about ten weeks and ends in the third week of August, weeks before the weather does. Late August and September in Roy are warm and the outdoor pool is shut for most of it, apart from three named days the city adds on.

What the city does not publish is worth naming once, plainly, because it changes how you plan. There is no feature list for the outdoor pool, no facility rules a parent can read before arriving, and no parking information for either building. Every one of those is a phone call rather than a lookup, and the two numbers are 801-774-8590 for the outdoor pool and 801-774-1050 for the complex. The page on moving here collects the rest of the numbers a new household needs.

Roy City prints two different addresses for its own recreation complex, and one of them is city hall. The complex's own index page and the city's parks and facilities page both give 2150 W 4700 S, and the Weber County assessor shows a 38.52 acre municipally owned parcel at exactly that address. A further subpage on the same city site prints 5051 S 1900 W, which is the Municipal Center at the other end of town and a completely different building. Use 2150 W 4700 S. This is the city speaking on both sides, so a search result can honestly return either one, and somebody arriving with a swimming bag at city hall has followed the wrong page rather than made a mistake.

Five dollars for a pool, a gym, a track and two racquetball courts is the kind of civic bargain that does not advertise itself. It sits in an ordinance, and you find it by reading the fee schedule.

Quick answers


The two pools, answered.

Noon to six Tuesday through Saturday, noon to eight on Monday, and closed on Sunday. The city prints its season as the twenty third of May through the twenty second of August, with three extra operating days afterwards: the last Saturday of August, the first Saturday of September and the Monday following. Those dates are published without a year against them, so confirm the current season on the city's own aquatic center page before the first trip of the summer. The number is 801-774-8590.

Eight dollars for anyone from eight to sixty five, seven dollars for children from four to seven and for anybody from sixty five, and free under four. A ten punch pass is seventy dollars for a Roy resident and seventy five for a non resident. A group of twenty or more booked together pays seven dollars a head. And there is a forty dollar family pass that applies on Monday nights only, which is the reason the pool stays open two hours later on Mondays than on any other day. All from Roy City's consolidated fee schedule adopted as Ordinance 26-7.

Because Monday is family night. Roy City's fee schedule carries a Monday Night Family Pass at forty dollars for a family, and it is the only ticket on the whole aquatic center schedule priced per family 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 it is the cheapest evening in the water anywhere in this part of the county.

The city lists a pool running 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; basketball courts with eight hoops; pickleball courts; an indoor track where nineteen laps make a mile; an aerobics room for fitness classes; and two racquetball courts. The building is at 2150 W 4700 S on a 38.5 acre municipal parcel shared with Roy High School, and it is open five in the morning to nine at night on weekdays, eight to eight on Saturday, and closed Sunday.

Not at the indoor complex. The pool there runs lap and exercise swim from five in the morning until one in the afternoon on weekdays and from eight until noon on Saturday, and open swim only from five until half past eight in the evening on weekdays and from noon until six 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 a family wants. In summer the outdoor Aquatic Center covers that gap, opening at noon every day it is open.

A month is thirty five dollars for a resident and forty five for a non resident. A resident year runs three hundred dollars for an adult from eighteen to sixty four, a hundred and ninety for a young person from eight to seventeen, and a hundred and twenty five from sixty five, each with a small electronic payment charge on top. A family membership starts from the same three hundred dollar base member with twenty five dollars for each additional member. Non resident rates are roughly twenty per cent higher across the board. Single admission is five dollars.

Pickleball holds the courts every weekday morning from five until noon, and open basketball has them the rest of the day. Basketball half court reservations are a winter arrangement only: Saturday mornings from eight until ten, forty five dollars, 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. The West Bowery is a hundred and twenty five dollars, and a group that has booked it pays six dollars a head at the gate instead of the walk up eight. Or the city rents the whole facility in the evening for fifteen hundred dollars plus a five hundred dollar early booking fee, Tuesday to Saturday from half past six until half past eight, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with a published capacity of a thousand people. Reservations open at eight in the morning on the first working day of January for residents and the second working day for everybody else.

Registration opens on the second Monday of each month at eight in the morning, through the city's own recreation booking site rather than at the desk. The pre school course is fifty dollars and levels one through six are fifty five. Water aerobics runs alongside it at forty dollars for an adult course and thirty from sixty five, with a seven dollar drop in rate and a ten dollar discount for members. All of those figures are from the city's consolidated fee schedule, and the second Monday timing is worth putting in a diary rather than remembering.

Scott Buehler, Moving Utah

Two pools, one fee schedule and the cheapest gym membership in the county sitting inside it.

The two buildings on this page are a bigger part of daily life in Roy than anything else the city owns, and they are the reason a lot of households pick this city over its neighbours. If you are weighing an address here, walk through the complex on a weekday morning before you decide anything, and note how far the property sits from it, because three minutes and twelve minutes are different habits. Ask the parks and recreation desk about the outdoor pool's facility rules if you have small children, since the city does not publish them. And check whether the household wants a resident membership, because resident and non resident rates differ by about a fifth and the city line here is not where a postal address suggests. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works these blocks, and stay on the file for the financing side.

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