Looking for outdoor pools & water parks in Phoenix? Here are 11 of them, with the details parents check first: price, opening hours and the right age range.
Sorted by distance from the middle of Phoenix, nearest first. Those are straight-line miles, so every drive is longer than the number on the card.
City pool with youth/open-swim programming; verify seasonal schedule.
Encanto Pool is an outdoor swimming facility in Phoenix, Arizona where families can bring children for swimming and swim lessons. The pool offers classes for…
City pool with youth/open-swim programming; verify seasonal schedule.
Arizona Grand Resort Water Park is an outdoor water park located in Phoenix, AZ that operates year-round. Families can enjoy water attractions at the Oasis Water…
City pool with youth/open-swim programming; verify seasonal schedule.
David C. Uribe Pool is an outdoor pool in Phoenix, Arizona, offering swimming instruction for children beginning to learn to swim. The facility provides classes…
City pool with youth/open-swim programming; verify seasonal schedule.
Golfland Sunsplash Mesa is a family fun center and water park in Mesa, Arizona, featuring waterslides and miniature golf attractions. The venue offers over 30…
City pool with youth/open-swim programming; verify seasonal schedule.
Deer Valley Pool is an outdoor pool in Phoenix, Arizona where families can enroll children in swimming classes. The facility offers instruction for beginning…
Water slides wave pool lazy river; former Wet N Wild
Where a card says no price or no hours listed, the venue does not publish it. We would rather leave the gap than fill it with a guess. Prices come from each venue's own website, and we publish one only when the figure appears on the page we took it from. Tell us if we are missing one you know.
Two children three years apart do not have to be a compromise. The age line on every card shows what that venue serves.
Best here for under 2, 2 miles out, listed ages 0–12 and admission from $3.
Best here for two to five, 11 miles out, listed ages 3–9 and admission from $3.
Best here for six to nine, 15 miles out, listed ages 3–9 and admission from $3.
Best here for ten and up, 2 miles out, listed ages 3–16 and admission from $3.
Most of these are not in Phoenix proper, and the town is usually what decides whether a place is worth the trip.
10 of them: Coronado Pool, Encanto Pool, Cielito Pool, Arizona Grand Resort Water Park and Cortez Pool, the closest 2 miles from the middle of Phoenix and 6 with a published admission price.
These run from 2 to 18 miles out from the middle of Phoenix. Hours move with the season and with school holidays, so check the listing before you set off. If you run one of the places on this page, you can claim it for free and keep its hours and prices right.
Grip socks. Almost every venue requires them for children and several require them for adults. Most sell them at the door for a few dollars. Bringing your own is cheaper and means you are not buying a fourth pair.
Check whether adults pay. It runs from free to full price and it changes the cost of a visit by a lot when there are two of you.
Weekday mornings are the toddler rush. If you want space, aim for after two on a school day. Weekend mornings are the busiest hours of the week almost everywhere.
Ninety minutes is the realistic ceiling for most children under five. There is rarely a gradual wind down. Leaving with time left on the clock is not wasted money, it is a better afternoon.
Call ahead in school holidays. Several of these venues run camps and private events that close open play with no notice on the website.
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We list 11 outdoor pools & water parks within 30 miles of Phoenix, AZ. Every one is a published listing with an address we checked.
6 of the 11 here do, and each price was checked word for word against the venue's own page before we published it. The rest do not publish one, so their card says no price listed rather than carrying a guess.
2 of them list an age range starting at two or under. Check the age line on each card, because a place that suits a six-year-old does not always suit a two-year-old.
We list every one we have within 30 miles of the center of Phoenix. Each is a published place with an address we geocoded and checked, and the business can claim its listing to keep the hours and prices current.
It varies more than you would expect, from free to full price, and it changes the cost of a visit by a lot when there are two of you. The price on each card is what it costs to get a child in. Where a venue publishes an adult price it is on the listing, and where it does not we have left it out rather than assume.
Usually not for open play, but several venues cap capacity at weekends and during school holidays, and some close open play entirely for private events. Where a venue has its own booking page, the listing links straight to it.
Grip socks, a water bottle, a change of clothes for anyone under four, and a plan for leaving before the meltdown rather than after it.
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Listings last checked August 21, 2026.
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