I go with my daughter and grandson (4) frequently! Staff is…read moregreat,patrons are friendly. Pool and whole facility are well kept very well!!! It's going to help keep him busy this summer.

I love this community pool. The staff is always helpful and great in classes. I personally love…read moretheir aquatic aerobics classes. They have a larger ladder that makes it easy to walk into the Main Pool. There is a smaller pool that is very kid friendly that is primarily open on the weekends and in the summer when there is more staff to lifeguard both pools. They have Boys and Girls changing rooms that have showers. The cost to use the pool is the same as the City recreation fee of $30 or you can get the family plan for $50.

I love to bring the kids here. But some kids language is unnecessary I please ask parents to talk…read moreto your kids about being respectful around other kids please thank you!

The pool is very nice. But for the money the city spent, they could have at least brought the…read morelights up to code. Sadly, they did not and so the city shut down their own pool after dusk. The views and the architecture in Cuscaden Park are second to none. They reek of old Tampa and Ybor history. And the fact that this pool is smack dab in the middle of the urban core is nothing short of awesome! Now the downside... while there's a lot to love about Cuscaden Pool, if you're planning a pool day/picnic, think again. You cannot bring any food or beverages into the pool area: not behind the fence where the seats are, not anywhere. IMO, this puts a bit of a damper on what otherwise is a fantastic pool park in Tampa's urban core.

Overall, a very nice public pool. I'm both a platform/springboard diver (and play some water polo)…read moreand an architectural historian, so I have a bunch of things to say here. I'm not sure when the pool was built but in the early 1970s sounds like from what I was told there, making it a full decade newer than I presumed based on the architecture. But what architecture it is! That façade--you just don't get public architecture for mundane things like parks and rec very often anymore. Despite the mid-century modern understatement, it still has something to say and I wish we'd see more of that today. People have commented on the restrooms/locker rooms. Personally, I was not bothered that the men's locker room was showing its age. It still worked fine. What surprised me was the individual shower stalls instead of a gang shower given its date of construction. And I think the whole men's locker room likely is original and without major updates beyond minor fixtures like soap dispensers. For a public facility at this time of construction to have individual stalls would have been considered a bit of luxury. The current state of the mens' locker room is no worse than many pools I've been to for diving and better than the much newer Cecil Aquatic Center in Jacksonville. The dive well: There's a 1m and a 3m board, which is nice. Both are older but in fine shape. The dive well itself is 14ft but tapers off away from the boards to around 6ft. It's safe, but trying to get a dive a good ways out I was concerned by how it looked from the 3m I'd hit bottom but didn't. It's just a visual illusion and I'm used to pools 16ft deep in their dive wells, too. The dive well is located centerline in the pool between swim lanes, which is cool. All the lifeguards and staff I spoke with were awesome and endured my nerdy questions about the history of their facility. Besides open swim, they have a great program seems of water polo, artistic swimming, and other things going on keeping the facility busy. Overall, I highly recommend!

Bobby Hicks Pool is a great public pool option in the area. I definitely recommend looking at their…read moreschedule which is updated seasonally to see if it's worthwhile for your needs. The lifeguards here are great and the swim lessons are so affordable. My kids learned how to swim here so I always recommend it. The restrooms are just okay. Plenty of parking. Happy to have this in the area!

Nice green space along the waterfront in a very urban setting. It was nice to see so many people…read moreenjoying it. Lots of fisherman, families and even saw a young couple having a picnic date. The facilities look to be pretty well maintained.

ive been going here for years, lovely place, need some visual work, but not a big deal, and lovely…read morepeople in the summer camp (id leave a heart but im on the pc)

Back to try again... Nope. This pool is way too small. Every lame is doubled up already. With…read morelimited hours and minimal lanes this place is basically a wasted corner in shore acres.

This is a community swimming pool that is part of the city's Parks and Recreation department. It is…read moreadjacent to the Shore Acres Civic Center, which hosts many city programs. The pool is also adjacent to a covered playground with astro-turf. The pool has two low diving boards and a large twisty sliding tube complex. There is also a very large baby pool. The swimming pool is a 25 yard pool, but during public swim hours there is no lane swimming as the pool is converted to a general swim area, sliding tube landing area, and diving well. The pool has men's and women's locker room areas with showers. This swimming pool is an older pool, and does not have a zero-depth entry option for disabled people. This year they just installed a wench-contraption (sorry, don't know what it is called) to help accommodate disabled persons. Public swimming hours are very limited, only being from 1-4 p.m. daily. The other hours are devoted to swimming lessons, masters swimming, and youth swim team. The pool is generally staffed by teenagers with summer jobs, and they are not always the most polite or friendly people, but I guess that is to be expected of teenagers. I enjoy having this pool in my neighborhood, and my kids take advantage of the swim team, but given the option we usually drive to Fossil Park pool because my kids love the high-dive there, or we drive to North Shore Pool so that I can swim laps while they play in the rest of the pool or in the kiddy splash pool area.

A great community center with a pool! We enjoy going there during open swim hours to splash around…read more I took away a star because I wasn't really impressed with the swim lessons- it didn't seem like the instructors were very invested. It's a small fee to join for the year and they have a gym area to work out in, basketball courts, and kids programs for summer and when schools out/after school.

This pool and the staff are so great. It is a pleasure to be able to do my Fluid Running here in…read morethe pool. I am very happy the the City of Tampa has such great Recreation Centers!

Super cool area. Went here with my daughter for a karate tournament and the place was awesome. Only…read morething that was terrible is the vending machines. They kept getting stuck and it robbed me of like $3 lol.

Came to Highland rec center for the aquatic area for my daughter's birthday. We signed up for the…read moreafternoon swim that was two hours long. Now there is a lot of amenities here at the aquatic center but the two big slides in the corner are little rocky. We decided to go down the waterslides when we first got there and noticed that both have flaws. There are wasp nests underneath the slides so you do see tons of wasp flying around. The swirl slide we took moves really slow so you have to push yourself at some point to keep moving forward down the slide. People were coming down quickly after you would get off the slides they got kind of close to landing in the water by us. The straight down slide you catch air midway, especially for a little kids you kinda stopped, touching the slide at one point. Now for the smaller kid area it was perfect for my five year old. They had little slides over there and even a medium kid slide as soon as you walk up nice splash pad a lot more slow pace and relaxing. they do have lifejackets there if needed for children. They also have a café where they serve Domino's Pizza and other snacks and drink options which we did get some Gatorade's and a whole Domino's Pizza, and for the price it wasn't bad.

A very fun time and would go again and very very big pools and handicap support great greatread more

Sooo the Hard Rock Pool Bar & Grill was a surprisingly great lunch spot after such a relaxing spa…read moreday. I really enjoyed the strawberry salad, and the wings were cooked just how I like them. There's plenty of outdoor seating, and it has that classic pool bar vibe. Next time I do a spa day, I'll definitely be coming back!