Update: DCR has extended pool hours during the heat wave! The pool will now be open until 7:45pm. For how long, we don’t know…
The FREE Olympic-sized swimming pool is open and will be open daily, 11:15-6:45pm, through August 18. The spraydeck is open 8am-8pm daily. Come cool off at the park! DCR won’t be hosting swim lessons, alas, but the pool is hosting lap swimming from 11:15-12:15pm, Monday-Friday.
Now that it’s summer, Mass Audubon’s drop-in Nature Center will be open Monday-Friday, 3-7pm and weekends 12-7pm. For a list of (mostly free) summer programs, go here.
Many thanks to the Charles River Conservancy for recent cleanups and invasive weeding at the park. It’s looking great and the red Adirondack chairs are out. Come picnic, stroll, lounge, commune, splash & exercise.
Update from DCR: Work on Phase II-2 (turning the sunken parking lot between the pool and river into a grassy beach) won’t begin until 2025 because of permitting delays. More as we know more.
Magazine Beach 
Dear Julian,
When you give us adults a lap lane
we will send joy full gratitude to you and your staff with each stroke
michael koran
Will there be times / lanes available for lap swimming?
Lap swim:
11:15am-12:15pm, Monday-Friday! See you there!