Olathe Community Center

One of my many favorite spots in the Kansas City Metro for family portraits and senior pictures. There is a giant tree that creates great lighting anytime of day with awesome framing and great colors...even in the winter! Several paths including some bridges and covered areas that are great for family shots or traditional senior pictures. Small playground with a net that is great to get pictures of little ones climbing. You can schedule photos at the location! Just email me at [email protected]. You can visit me on Instagram at shirk_media

I was confirmed to book an event on June 29th. After finalizing the details with the rental representative, I was contacted and told I couldn't have my event there bc they said my event would be too loud and interfere with the event next door. They said it was a celebration of life. I am celebrating life as well with a Princess Theme birthday party. As a resolution, they offered to move my party up so it could end before 3. They also asked me to change my date, select a location outdoors with June heat, or use one of the centers that did not have a pool. I feel like their actions are discriminatory in nature and not business oriented. When you are renting a venue, you have to be flexible and understanding regarding concurrent events? If the venue expects quietness then perhaps they should have offered the other party a time frame where the venue would be empty. This facility has a great indoor pool and will be packed in the summer!!! It's unfair to cancel my reservation due to them not believing I should be next door. I am extremely disappointed, hurt, frustrated, and confused. I have made plans for family for all over the US to be in town this day. I am simply pressing this matter to the highest level possible. You can't treat consumers in this way and think that sending them away is the best solution. Again, I was prepared to sign my contract and was within my window to pay for it. They chose not to pick me. I want be silenced. It has taken too much planning on my part. Be aware of discriminatory behavior and complain all the way to the top.

Great area to work out. Can do a one day pass and use pool area to walk the river walk or swim laps. Walk the padded walking path upstairs, full work out area with all the machines and courts for pickleball or basketball. Very nice facility.

The place to have fun for all ages. Workout, pickleball, pool, hot tub, meeting & party rooms, etc.!

This is a nice facility! I love bringing my kids to swim at the pool here. It's so fun! They do not have towels though. I've also taken several drop in classes here and they're great too! I do not have a gym membership though because I often need child care when I work out and their child care is very weird, like they only allow 5-10 kids in there at a time, and they have to be under 7. I mean I don't know the rules but its something weird like that. I've rented rooms here for several occasions and it's all been a very smooth process.

Our family has been coming here for about a year now, mostly to use the pool facilities, but we've also experienced some of the other amenities as well. In our experience, everything has been top-notch about this lovely new(ish) rec center!Olathe Community Center won our business due to it having the first available opening (out of three facilities in the area) in a Saturday swim lessons class for our daughter. That was last summer, and we just recently wrapped up our third session, if the repeat business tells you anything about what we think of their lessons. The teachers are all fantastic. Most of them look to be high school and college-aged individuals, and they've all been fantastic with the kids. Even with the difficult ones, who mope or try to avoid the water like last month's leftover Brussels sprouts.There is a large family-dedicated locker room with both dry and wet private changing rooms, the latter being equipped with showers, sinks and toilet facilities. In between kids' lessons (sometimes we've had up to an hour between kiddo 1 and kiddo 2), we've played in the "tree house", as they've come to affectionately refer to it, which is a padded-floor play area just off the front door to the center. On warm days, we go out front and play on the incredible playground that's about 100 feet west of the front door. There are a bunch of spinning apparatuses, a spider web to climb, a "slide" of sorts, and a couple other things to hang and spin on. Call it an above-average playground for kids aged 3-8. It, too, is soft on the ground.Lastly, our daughter loved the pool and swim lessons SOOOOO much that she decided she wanted to have her birthday party here last year. For said party, you are assigned (at least) one proctor for your dedicated room, who helps you unload stuff from your car (cart provided), prepare the room, moderate the party, clean up, and help you on your way out. Ours even helped make a list of who brought what gifts! For the party, you spend a bit of time in the room celebrating (i.e. eating CAKE!!!), and then you make your way down to the indoor pool complex to allow all the kids to cramp up properly after eating CAKE!!! For the parties, all the water features in the pools come alive! There's a huge water table with a fill-up-and-pour-down splash feature, eight or ten spouts (4-6' high), and a couple rain features. There are tons of seats around the pool for you to bear close witness to the numerous lifeguards diving in after kids who wade a little past their depth every 2 or 3 minutes. There's a discount for Olathe residents, which we are not. That, too, ought to help you understand just how highly we regard most everything and everybody at this facility - for the past year, we've paid 10-20% more than Olatheites to be there. Come on, OCC - can I get some sort of positive Yelp review discount?!?!??

My review is based on my experience as using the OCC as my gym. I have been a member of the Olathe Community Center for over two years now and I use it about 3-4 times per week during my lunch hour to swim or workout. I have never had any issues since I started going and in reading the negative reviews, it sounds to me like those people were not proactive in either calling ahead or checking the website for open swim times for their kids. The pool schedule does change based on the school year so it is wise to always check out their website and they are very good about posting updates/changes to the pool and group exercise schedules. The facility itself is very nice and clean with good equipment. The locker rooms are nice and have everything you could possibly need. I have no complaints at all about the OCC and think it has to be one of the nicer public community centers I've ever been in.

I've been here 3 times; one was on a tour with Olathe Civic Academy. We got to tour the entire place. It is perfect for families. The pool area is amazing; rock wall, 2 water slides, lazy river, hot tub, kids bucket dump! The workout location is nice, all the necessary equipment and machines. Party rooms are well equipped. The meeting rooms are nice, each with a full service kitchen if needed. GREAT place to have an event (even a wedding reception).Staff is very friendly and helpful. Even when they are busy, there's always a "hi" or a friendly smile.

I have been going to the gym and pool here for over a year. I have met so many nice people, but after today I canceled my membership. I have been wearing the same similar gym clothing for 6+ months. 3-4 mornings a week. This morning I stretched my back out before starting to lift and some of my mid drift showed while stretching. (I had on a sweat shirt, a high neck tank top and pants) I was told I was making people uncomfortable and I would need to put on one of their shirts to continue to workout. I have seen far more scandalously dressed woman than myself there and no one has said anything. I guess low cut shirts and short shorts are acceptable though. Will never go back. Good luck to woman who go there. You never know when what your wearing will get you kicked out.

They wouldn't let me workout with somebody watching me and I've worked out here before and it's absolute bullshit