Hearst Recreation Center Playground

Had a great experience at Hearst Recreation Center. The facility is clean, well-maintained, and offers a variety of activities for all ages. The playground and outdoor spaces are excellent, and the staff are friendly and welcoming. It's a great neighborhood resource for fitness, recreation, and community events. Whether you're bringing kids to play or looking for a place to stay active, this is a well-run and enjoyable community center. Highly recommended.

Terrific recreational spot in Northwest DC including a pool, pickleball and tennis

Great pool, facility and people.

Beautiful pool- only drawback is that there are a lot of people who don’t respect the etiquette of lap lane swimming. Usually it’s a random dude who swims across the lanes and doesn’t consult with other swimmers on if we will do circle swimming or share lanes. Sometimes it is people who want to have social hour and chat alongside each other while doing a very, very slow breaststroke and then get upset when you swim around them. No hate on friendship-it is totally fine to be with your friends. I hang out with my friends at the pool in the deep end and tread water or hang on the side of the pool when we want to chat. DPR could have “social” swimmers move to the deep end so people who want to swim laps for exercise or therapy can do so efficiently and more people can use the lap lanes. That being said, it’s a great pool. Bring a big beach towel or be prepared to wait for a chair if that it something you need. Thanks DCDPR for adding another pool in the city!

Another disappointing example of DC public pools. I went to the outdoor pool over the weekend, they had 3-4 swim lanes which were good, at the most two ppl were swimming in a lane. But started to go swimming during the week over the lunch break thinking that it'd be even better to swim. First of all, they had only two lanes open, full of elderly ppl swimming super slow and just walking and doing exercises in the swim lanes (which felt as if an entire senior house was there) + full of kids from summer camps which was fine cause they weren't in the swim lanes. I was going for my cardio and doing my sets and drills but the main problem was swimming with three old ppl in one lane who either didn't know how to swim or were super slow and had the audacity to interrupt you while swimming faster saying swim slower and don't swim freestyle cause all we do is slow breaststroke so you should adjust to our speed while they had the whole side of a lane to themselves and complained to the lifeguards which made it unbearable. If you're looking to actually swim sets and drills outdoors, this is not the pool. It's just for a bunch of entitled seniors and elderlies during the week. Uh, DC public pools are a disaster!