Alexandra Park Pool

This is a beautiful large pool with plenty of room on the deck and in the water. There are shady areas far enough away from others where you can play a boom box without a problem. The lockers aren’t needed, just bring all your stuff with you. The hours are from noon until 6:45pm.

As of July 2011…
Alexandra Park pool water temp is COLD. I was told by a lifeguard that the pool is leaking, and to compensate they are pumping in fresh tap water ²⁴⁄₇. I repeat, the water is COLD. I’m a competitive swimmer and enjoy training in cooler water (70−72F) but this is kind of ridiculous. I would say it’s not more than 63F-​ish.
Alexandra Park pool is 50 yards long. Weird and a bit rare to see that in North America anymore.
All City of Toronto outdoor pools are all free for everyone to enjoy. The showers in the men’s changerooms kind of suck, the shower heads should be replaced, they kind of spit out water everywhere else than on your body. Other than that, the changerooms are clean and spacious.
Not sure about the earlier poster’s comments about people being young and beautiful. The patronage reflects the diversity of Toronto much like everywhere else in the city. I didn’t notice any pervs or skeevs, just local residents enjoying a free city pool.
I’m a swimmer and come for adult lap swimming at night, and just might have been the grape smuggler to which she makes reference. It’s much easier to swim 4000 yds in a speedo as opposed to board shorts.

A free outdoor pool in the city? Surely, this is where the skeevs and pervs hang out. Otherwise, it’s too good to be true, right?
Well, if they were there, I didn’t notice. What I did see were kids splashing around in the shallow end and barely any swimmers in the deep end (4’4″) of the rather large pool. Woo hoo! More uninterrupted laps for moi.
Most of the bikini babes were poolside, working on their tans. And of course, there was a grape smuggler in his requisite speedo — always gotta be at least one in the bunch. Overall, a surprisingly young and good-​looking crowd converged here to beat the summer heat.
The pool is clean and not too over-​chlorinated but the change rooms and shower areas are downright depressing. It’s probably best to keep your flip-​flops on your feet at all times and not think about it too much.
They have coin lockers to guard your stuff for 25 cents but everything else is FREE.