Reader suggests , Ridgewood’s time-honored source of relief for summer heat is a cool dip at Graydon.
Reader suggests , Ridgewood’s time-honored source of relief for summer heat is a cool dip at Graydon. The bike rack is in the parking lot.
The Village Council and the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation announce that memberships are on sale for the upcoming summer season and all are invited to join the Graydon Pool facility as season members for the 2013 summer season. Come enjoy fun in the sun so close to home!
Pool features include a shaded playground, water play fountains, shade kites, Adirondack chairs, picnic area, sheltered pavilion, charcoal grills, and The Water’s Edge Café. Additional amenities include a lending library of reading books, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong tables, shuffleboard, four-squares and hop-scotch. Special programs include “Storytime Under a Tree” for the little ones on Thursday and swim instruction for children and adults, as well as an adaptive swim class. The Graydon Swim Team welcomes youth members, ages 8 to 14.
Resident fees are $110 per adult, $100 per child (ages 2 through 15) and $20 for seniors (62 and older). Non-resident adults will be charged $175 and children, ages 2 through 15, will be charged $155 for the13 week season.
Badges are on sale and can be purchased from the comfort of home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted). In person registration assistance is available at the Graydon Pool Badge Office, 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges may be purchased daily throughout the operating season, June 1st through Septemer 2nd.
Details are available at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon or you may call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
My time honored tradition is to go to the beach!
We all do not have the time to go to the beach, so Graydon is a good choice.
If Graydon had more privacy it would be perfect.
Even with this scorching heat, Graydon never seems to busy when I drive by.
People still love their air conditioners.
Joined Graydon with my family last year (wife is life long Ridgewood resident). Would be nice if the bottom didn’t feel so disgusting. Won’t join again.
My family loves it. The kids have a ball there.
The bottom is disgusting because the water is disgusting. It’s too small a body of un-chlorinated fresh water for my liking. I get that you can’t salt it, and you can’t chlorinate it, both for environmental reasons. I generally avoid it but it’s fun for my kid and probably good for her immune system. I swam in worse when I was little, but by the time I was 12 or so I figured out that fresh water is only good for mosquitoes and alligators (grew up a little to the south of here).
If some people like Graydon, good. Hopefully their dues can sustain the majority of the park. I’m ok subsidizing it a little. It’s good for the image of the town. I used to drive down Maple many years ago, when I worked in Allendale and was avoiding 17 on the way home and would see Graydon and think “how cool”.