| The Roeland Park
Aquatic Center located just east of the Roeland Park Community
Center, is a cooperative venture between the City of Roeland Park
and JCPRD, which manages and operates the facility.
The RPAC offers, through our quarterly JCPRD Activities
web catalog and via our printed catalog, programs and activities
such as our Learn To Swim programs for our patrons ages six months
through adult. The center also offers classes in diving, lifeguard
training and popular water exercise programs for our 50 Plus patrons.
The facility is also used to train our Kansas City Blazers, the Stingrays
summer youth league swim team, Kansas City Water Polo Team and the
Great Plains Diving Team. It is also utilized by two local
high schools.

Fall
(Sept, Oct & Nov) - RPAC
Swim & Lap Hours & Fees |
RPAC Will
Be Closed: 9/14 - 9/17 & 11/25 |
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Fall Open Swim Hours
Mon-Fri: 12 pm - 4:30 pm
Sat & Sun: 12 pm - 5 pm |
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Fall Lap Swim Hours*
Mon - Fri: 6 am - 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm - 9 pm
Sat & Sun: 12 pm -5 pm *Limited Lap Lanes 3 pm - 4:30
pm |
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Fall Daily Fees
Passes sold only to Roeland Park (RP) residents - Proof required. |
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RP Resident |
Guest Fee |
| Ages 2 and under |
$0 |
$0 |
| Ages 3 -59 |
$6 |
$6.50 |
| Ages 60 and Older |
$5 |
$5.50 |
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| For the complete RPAC Fee information
including Indoor & Outdoor Passes, Annual
Passes & Punch Cards, visit our
RPAC Admission and Rentals page. |
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| RPAC Information Lines |
| RPAC Phone Line: |
(913) 432-1377 |
| RPAC 24 Hour Info Line: |
(913) 312-8838 |
| Learn to Swim 24 Hour Info Line: |
(913) 312-8832 |
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Special Events at Roeland Park Aquatic Center
A number of special events are offered throughout the year
including Splash for Cash and extended open swim hours over the winter
holidays. For RPAC events, dates, locations through the year visit the
JCPRD Calendar of Events page.
Kansas City Blazer Seek Swimmers 18 and older
Johnson County Park and Recreation District's KC Blazers Masters Swimming
team is offering swim training for all swimmers 18 and older.
Our participants range from former and current high school, college,
and triathlete swimmers, former Olympians to fitness swimmers wanting
something organized and more challenging in the pool. Instruction in
competitive strokes is available upon request.
Workouts are offered throughout the week. For time and fee information
call (913) 236-1213.
KC Blazers Hire of New Olympic Caliber Coach
The Kansas City Blazers swim team is pleased to announce the hiring
of Gardner Howland as its next head coach. Howland joined the team on
August 23, 2010.
Coach Howland comes to the Blazers from Conejo Simi Aquatics in Thousand
Oaks, California, and prior to that from Pilot Aquatics Club in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Coach Howland has a long list of accomplishments in the swimming
community achieved during his 27 years as a coach. These include placing
a gold medal winning swimmer on the 2000 United States Olympic Team
as well as placing many swimmers on teams for the Pan American Games,
World University Games, Goodwill Games and National Junior teams. He
is also a two-time head coach of the United States National Junior Team
and was an assistant coach for the United States Goodwill Games Team.
JCPRD and the Blazers are very excited to have Coach Howland join the
Kansas City Blazers and look forward to growing and enhancing the great
swimming tradition. Five Patron Facility Access
Passes
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Daily fee (not available during the summer
season)
Punch cards (good for a specified number of visits)
Pool season passes
Memberships
Party or group arrangement |
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Birthday Parties
Hey Kids and Kids of All Ages! The Roeland Park Aquatic Center
offers a fun -filled venue for your next birthday party for
any age! We offer a fantastic 25-meter-by-25-yard pool, zero-depth
entry, with fun fountain sprayers for all ages. There must have
a minimum of 10 guests and please register at least one week
in advance. All parties take place during open swim times. Call
for details - (913) 432-1377.
50 Meter Pool
The RPAC features a 50-meter inverted “C”-shaped pool
with a 25-yard by-25-meter competitive area, a diving well for
one- and three-meter boards and a inflatable slide; four 50-meter
lap swimming lanes, and a “zero-depth” entry area including
sprayers and fountains. Other amenities available throughout
the year include a bath house complete with men’s and women’s
locker rooms, a family change room, a concession area, expanded
parking and a convenient drop-off circle drive, as well as staff
offices and a control area.
The Dome
Thanks to an air-supported dome which covers the main
pool from September through May, the facility is available for
use year-round. For approximately two weeks prior to Memorial
Day, the RPAC is closed while crews remove the dome and convert
it into an open air facility. It takes 30 to 40 people, working
on tarps used to temporarily cover the pool, to handle the 6,800
pounds of fabric which makes up the dome.
Aquatic Theme Park Feature
With the dome’s removal, the Roeland Park Aquatic
Center becomes an aquatic theme park featuring not only the
main pool, but a number of other facilities located outside
the dome which are only operated during the summer months. These
include: a 120-foot water slide, an eight-foot wide group slide,
a Vortex Pool for inner tubes complete with a concrete volcano
fountain, and a separate youth pool with whale slide and "lemon
drop" sprayer. The dome is reinstalled each year after Labor
Day.
A Cooperative Venture
The Roeland Park Aquatic Center officially opened on Sept. 20,
1997. Discussions between the City of Roeland Park and the Johnson
County Park about the possible construction of a new facility
began nearly four years earlier and were triggered by the closure
in 1993 of an obsolete city pool. An intergovernmental agreement
allowed the City to sell the District the approximately four
acres the complex sits on. The city in turn agreed to lease-purchase
the facility back from the park District over 20 years. To construct
the facility, the District issued $3.3 million in revenue bonds,
which freed the city from adding to its bond indebtedness.
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"By the way, those swim instructors are terrific!"
-Sereena
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