Ramsey Park and Pool

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLACE! So many different ages and stages of life out on a Saturday morning. It’s cool to see kids, teens, adults, and seniors all hanging out. Lots of people get together for mojo ball here on Saturdays and Sundays. Nice surrounding neighborhood/​area. Just a walk away from medical district and cafes.

Great park for kids! Mine loved the huge climbing area and the mini zip line. Nice shade in the area with a fresh breeze when we went around 4ish.

Ramsey park is really outstanding! I have three boys, ages 2, 3, and 4. We began going to the park about two months ago. The facility is awesome! There is an area for smaller children and an area for bigger kids. The equipment is all recently updated and super cool. My kids will spend hours over and over exploring, climbing, and socializing. The pool opened yesterday. It is a terrific added bonus! The pool is pretty simple. Its rather recently updated and clean. I feel extremely safe and comfortable here. It’s great to be able to cool off and play at a fun and unique place like this! I am lucky enough to live very close to such a gem!

It’s a little rough around the edges, but a gem nonetheless. My dog loves walking the sidewalk that surrounds it. I don’t play, but the newly resurfaced tennis courts look awesome, and they’re only occasionally being used. The playground equipment is new and pretty fun, and there’s a basketball court. Sometimes you’ll see a Shakespeare play acted out for a small crowd at the little amphitheater. It’s a pretty active park for being only a couple blocks in size, and on the weekends during good weather the picnic tables are full of people celebrating birthdays and family get togethers. The pool is well maintained and clean, but pretty packed during prime times. For a peaceful pool, Sundays around Noon is when to go.

Wow… so color me surprise!
I usually do not frequent neighborhood pools… the dirty, rude, and usually unattended kids… if I wanted this sort of CDC exposure I’d watch Outbreak and/​or visit Atlanta.
But, to my surprise… this free community pool was actually bearable, dare I say, enjoyable?
They have semi-​decent/​clean changing facilities/​bathrooms, a freshwater shower, AND a roped-​off-​from-​the-​masses swim lane!
There are two lifeguards on duty and every so often they clear the pool for 5mins. The deep end is an enjoyable 8ft w/​a separated @5ft mark «kiddie pool»!
If you live or are visiting the neighborhood (as I was), check out this rarest of Austin Public Swimming Gems!

Well, what can I say Ramsey park? You were the coolest thing on the planet the summer after 6^th grade back in ’92. My review comes from a special place… 1992 kid brain. This parks got a pool and a basketball court and park, and a baseball or softball area, plus It’s convenient and right in the heart of north Austin (in 1992, I considered this north austin). Ramsey park for the win!

Best pool for toddlers and parents of toddlers. When your toddler is ready to tread outside the baby pool, Ramsey Pool is a great transition. It’s warm (but not bathtub water warm), it’s clean, other little kids abound but it’s not a take-​over situation, 0% trashy people, and the pool’s lifeguards are on top of their duties.
I heard a reassuring amount of whistle blowing going on, keeping the mostly older kids in line. My husband was giving a piggyback ride in the pool to our 2 year old son when they got the receiving end of the whistle. Apparently piggyback rides have been outlawed since we were kids, and the lifeguard on duty blew his whistle and pointed at the two of them. Feeling a little courageous from his vantage point on his dad’s back, our 2-​year old, realizing his fun had been stopped, pointed back at the lifeguard in his chair and said, ‘NO!’ The lifeguard laughed and no penalties were given.

It is what it is, a simple park, usually under construction somewhere.
This place gets busy on sunny days after it rains. Mainly kids and dogs.
The pool did not have any water in it at all last year.
The tennis courts are adequate for some practice or rec play, but nothing official. The lights do come on in the evening.
Usually plenty of parking around the edge of the park. The bathrooms are pretty decent, usually open, and clean.
Dangerous getting back on to 45^th street, be careful!

This is a great neighborhood park. At one end, there’s a baseball field. At the other, there’s Ramsey Pool, tennis courts, two swing sets, a playscape, and a awesome metal slide that’s so tall that I’m surprised no one’s fallen off and sued the city. (If you’re really insecure or litigious, please stay away.)
The pool has a few roped-​off lanes for swimming laps. There’s a deep section for people who can swim and a shallower end for kids. The shallow end is deeper than at Deep Eddy; if you have three-​year-​olds, you’ll need to wrap them in a flotation device or hold them.
There’s a big, neighborhood July 4 party here every year. There are also frequent birthday parties. And then right across the street are nice, old houses.
If you have young children, definitely check it out.

One lane available for swim lapper only and the rest is recreational. Free admission. Not crowd during daylight. Perfect for post run dive.

Nice dog park lots of friendly dogs plenty of room for everyone big are to walk great for no traffic and kids can play on the jungle gym tennis court is big roomy and not very full. lots of shade with lil bbq pits.

Great neighbourhood pool in a lovely setting. Large trees provide lots of shade around the pool and surrounding area — most welcome in the hot summer!
My son swam here every weekday for five weeks. He and his buddy would then play on the tennis courts, and move on to the playground. All these areas are close by each other, so that supervising adults can sit in one spot to keep an eye out. That is, unless your children are very, very small. In that case, you know that you do not yet have that luxury!
No actual parking lot, but parallel parking is readily available in the immediate area.

Ramsey park is home to Austin’s oldest pick up softball game. Every Sunday, usually about 2pm, a collection of lawyers and thieves shed their sociological differences and play the democratic American game. Women are welcome and often some of the women playing there are better than some of the men. It happens.
I understand that this game goes back to the 1950s. One of the old timers told me he remembers playing there when they planted the tree in centerfield.
This is an Austin treasure.

I took my nephew here yesterday and he loved it! It’s a safe, clean neighborhood park with a couple of playscapes for the kiddos, swings, and a high slide that only the brave kids will do. All in all it was a nice place to enjoy an afternoon. There were dogs around and everybody was really nice. I haven’t been to the pool yet but I’m sure I’ll go when it opens this summer!

About the pool, Anna writes in her review, «Bonus points for its unusually warm water.»
Kids are peeing in it all day long, keeping the temperature up. At least that’s my thinking and it’s why I’ve never used the pool.
My dog takes me to Ramsey park once, twice, three times a day. She thinks it’s a great place to pee, poop and meet people.