Salt City Splash Aquatic Center - Hutchinson, KS

Alia Collingwood

Great splash park and swimming pool! Love that it’s all in one and usually you can get a chair next to the flowers. Both slides are fun, see which one you think is faster! Wade swim or bake your choice! Not a bad snack bar either if you’re really hungry they even have hamburgers…..haven’t tried them but I’m told they’re good.? kid approved.

Cheyenne Camarillo

Always a great time. Never had a bad experience there.

Jessica Chaney

A great splash pad area for kids that cannot swim! Also has a larger pool with a very tall high diving board and short tube slide. Also has 2 larger, separate tube slides.

Jessi RaRaRa

I just deleted my 5 year old review because frankly I'm getting sick of this pool.

The prices keep going up when the pool sees zero improvement. The playground they used to have is gone so there's nothing for kids to do out of the pools. The play gym in the kids area used to have a slide and hasn't had one in years now. There's a bench in the kids pool that has water jets in it that haven't worked in years. There used to be chained down floaties and I can't remember the last time they had those. They broke down and they just never replaced them. There's several things that shoot water in the kids area that don't shoot water out of all the holes.

The memberships are laughable because there's no family membership and if you do individual memberships you'd have to go to the pool at least twice a week for the entire summer for it to even come close to being worth it.

Then today was kinda the last straw for me.

I am ADHD and Autistic. I space on things. A lot. Normally I always bring water bottles with us and today I forgot them. Well I had medication I needed to take. I haven't gotten water at the pool in I don't know how long, but I remembered cups of water being free (like it is most places) and asked if I could have a cup of water to take my meds. Not a bottle of water. A cup of tap water. I was told no and that it would be $1.50. Now a buck 50 isn't much money, but it's ridiculous... for a cup of TAP WATER. Especially in an outdoor place! What happens if a person didn't bring water with them and only brought enough to pay for entry? What happens if that person starts dehydrating? Charging for TAP WATER is absolutely insane. A bottle of water I get, but I didn't need that much water. I just needed a small cup to take my meds. Keep in mind that this place has NO water fountains. So if you don't have extra money for concessions and forgot a water bottle, your SOL. Imagine going somewhere like the Zoo and there not being water fountains anywhere. If people are outside (and today was 100 degrees out) then you should be making sure people can get water if they need it.

On the principal of the thing, I was just gonna go home and get our water bottles that I left. And what am I told? I can't.

Apparently they recently changed it so that you can't leave the pool after you enter. You can get stamped to go to your car... but if you need to run home you will have to pay entry again.

That means that if you make a mistake and forget something important. Maybe you get to the pool and realize you forgot your water bottles, forgot to pack sunscreen, or one of your kids swim suits. You can't run home to get them or you will have to pay for entry again. Even if you just got there.

I'm betting it's cause they don't want people to leave to eat and come back, but the result is that if people forget something they are charged double.

I don't know if they aren't getting as much money as they used to or what. But maybe instead of making it so people can't leave and making people pay for TAP WATER, you do something to improve this pool that hasn't seen improvement in YEARS and make it more worth going to.

Merritt G

Always a fun place to go. Really reasonably priced. Kids love it !

Walter Lopez

Had a great time but due to lighting were ask to come out and seek shelter did get a refund in new tickets well done by the very polite staff

Brian Weinkauf

Two stars because it looks fun. Cannot confirm, however.

DO NOT TRUST THE WEBSITE. DO NOT TRUST GOOGLE. DO NOT OLAN YOUR DAY AROUND THIS PLACE.

learn from my mistake. If they say they're open, physically go to the pool to double check. Do not plan your day around this unreliable place, especially if you're child is looking forward to it without physically confirming they are open. It might ruin your kid's day.

B

We traveled from out of town as my 5 year old loves big water slides and the height requirement is 42 inches and a lot of places require 46-48 inches. They had him remove his life jacket to do the slide which was totally fine, and the lifeguard would catch him. Huge bummer, they closed the big water slides after he only got to do it 3 times due to staffing shortage, which was the primary reason why we travelled. Nothing we can do about it, so we move to the big pool. They wouldn’t allow him to do water slide at the deep end or diving boards because he was wearing a life jacket. No where on the website or rules listed at the diving board does it state you cannot go off the diving board if you wear a life jacket. I understand rules are rules, but I highly suggest stating online that kids cannot use slides and diving board if wearing a life jacket, so those especially who travel are aware before they actually come. There just wasn’t much for him to do other than swim, which we could have stayed home for.