Turkey Thicket Recreation Center

★★★★★Mickey C

Pool is large, deep (goes to 12ft), and clean. There are multiple roped off sections to divide lap lanes from classes and free swim area. The staff is also very friendly and welcoming :)

★★★★Brandon Hargraves

The play ground area has a water play area as well! Tennis, pool, and cooking out is also available! Parking is provided free indoors bathrooms must show I.D when rec is open.

★★★★Alice and Mila Dinarte

Love this park/ rec center. It has pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, a running track,gym, a splash pad for the kids and a huge playground! Tables for picnics, and are much more! Definitely a great spot if you have energetic kids .

★★★★★The foodnews

It’s a wonderful playground it’s provides fun all year long . It’s in the same place as the community center and indoor pool in Brookland DC . Has a huge area for entertainment. Tennis court and community garden.Spray park in the summertime . I had enjoyed this place with my kids and every time we like it more. Beautiful . I wish that the vandalism would end it’s a incredible space unfortunately not everyone respect it. I have found a lot garbage and graffiti.

★★★★Michael Singletary

My experience with the recreation center is currently limited to the pool where my son goes for swimming lessons, but it has almost completely blown away my expectations. This center is clean and well-staffed with mostly friendly workers that almost always pleasantly greet us when we come in. The temperature inside is the opposite of whatever it is outside, meaning that it’s comfortable. The whole place reeks of chlorine, though, because of the very large indoor pool. The pool itself is big, clean, and safe with a number of lifeguards that are watching from their perch and others in an office close by. They all have been very attentive, never straying from their mission. There is a wonderful kiddie pool section with a spray tree so the tots can have some fun, and the entrance to this pool is a slight slope that allows kids to get in at their own pace. Within this area is the spa, which is often used and seems to be pleasant. The kiddie pool feeds into the larger pool through a narrow channel with the depth slowly increasing, giving parents and kids the option of how deep they’d like to go. There is only a couple of feet of water in the kids area, and the channel to the bigger pool area goes to 4 feet before you’re free and out in the main pool. The lane lines are tight and properly maintained, keeping swimmers from drifting too far and hitting others or moving into shallower waters. The pool is heavily chlorinated like all public pools, and the pool enclosure is very warm and humid. The pool is not hot, and my little son is chilly when he’s done with his lessons. You’ll sweat if you’re sitting out of the pool in anything more than a t-shirt and light pants. There is a very loud hum present, making it hard to talk to others around you. The locker rooms are large and clean, with nice showers to help you rinse off all of the chlorine. In addition to the swimming pool there is also a large basketball court area with clean floors, a small gym with well-kept equipment, a billiards table in the lobby, and other rooms that I have yet to explore. There’s also tennis courts outside. This is a really nice community center that you should definitely visit if you live nearby or have thought about coming!