{"id":663698,"date":"2026-05-12T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663698\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:26:08","slug":"free-swimming-at-3-of-surreys-8-outdoor-pools-starts-may-18-victoria-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663698\/","title":{"rendered":"Free swimming at 3 of Surrey\u2019s 8 outdoor pools starts May 18 (Victoria Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Free swimming at 3 of Surrey\u2019s 8 outdoor pools starts May 18 (Victoria Day)<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:30 pm Monday, May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bear Creek, Greenaway and Sunnyside outdoor pools in Surrey are scheduled to open for the summer on May 18, with others to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Hjorth Road pool is set to open on June 6, followed by Holly, Kwantlen, Port Kells and Unwin pools June 27.<\/p>\n<p>All summer, admission is free at all of the pools.<\/p>\n<p>Tides Out operates the City of Surrey\u2019s eight outdoor pools. Swim times, rules, lessons, rentals and lifeguarding info is posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tidesout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tidesout.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Surrey council approved a $3.7-million contract for Tide\u2019s Out Services Ltd. for a three-year term to operate the eight outdoor pools \u2014 seven in the north end of Surrey, one in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Cavan, Surrey\u2019s general manager of parks, recreation and culture, says the pools in 2025 saw more than 7,500 swim lesson registrants and some 154,000 public swim and sport users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe user trends have grown since 2024, with an increase of over 900 swim lesson registrations and over 11,000 additional public swim and sport users,\u201d Cavan told the city council. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free swimming at 3 of Surrey\u2019s 8 outdoor pools starts May 18 (Victoria Day) Published 7:30 pm Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-663698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}