About Maplewood YMCA Community Center
The Maplewood YMCA Community Center in Maplewood, MN offers a wide range of amenities and programs for the local community. The gym features a fitness center, free weights, cardio machines, and an aquatic center with a pool and kids splash zone. Customers can enjoy personal training, group exercise classes, swim lessons, and community-building activities. The facility also has a drop-off childcare center with an indoor playground, catering to families. The staff are friendly and helpful, and the center is praised for its variety of services, making it a valuable asset for people of all ages. The pool is especially popular for kids, who love playing in the splash zone and tunnels, while the quiet cardio area provides a great view of the lake. Overall, the Maplewood YMCA is a wonderful place to stay active all year round, with options for exercise, childcare, and fun for children.
My favorite walking track. The windows on two sides take away the claustrophobic feeling I get in most running tracks. Bigger track makes smaller rounds/mi. Not too many people and has 3 lanes.
Not bad but there are limited pool hours, half the time there's a random pool closing for various reasons. Then they have arbitrary not legally determined limiting rules for their hot tub (6 at a time? LOL Huh? When I inquired about why this rule existed, the supervisor informed that they made the role for safety in case their was a health emergency in the hot tub. This makes almost NO sense since you can easily reach any area from the sides of the hot tub - it's not fifty feet across, lol - plus it's not like people aren't going to move anyway. The other reason was for cleaning purposes, which again makes no sense since the cleaning has to happen anyway. Just a bone-headed...read full review
The staff are friendly, the gym is nice, and there are a lot of exercise equipment options. My kids (4 & 7) love going to the child care area because it's got tubes/tunnels.