There are three Council swimming pools across the Wingecarribee Shire offering the community opportunities for fun, fitness, and recreation.
Bowral and Bundanoon Pools are seasonal outdoor pools that are only open through the summer months. Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre is an indoor venue and is open all year. Pool facilities differ between venues and detailed information on what each pool has to offer can be found on the individual pool pages.
Admission costs for the 2024-2025 pool season available in our brochure below.
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Visit a Council pool to cool off, relax, enjoy water play, swim laps, attend an aqua fitness class, learn to swim, improve your stroke, or join a swimming club.
Bowral and Bundanoon pools are managed by Wingecarribee Shire Council, while Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre is managed by Bluefit Pty Ltd.
All Wingecarribee Shire Council swimming pools adhere to the Royal Lifesaving Society’s Keep Watch at Public Pools program to ensure the safety of all children and non-swimmers.
Outdoor swimming centres remain open until their advertised closing times unless weather is not conducive to swimming, at which times pool supervisors may close the pools early.
The admission costs can be found in this Season's Swimming Pool Brochure - coming soon.
On inclement days or where temperatures fall below 18 degrees, one of the swimming centres will be closed from 9 am. Signage at pool entrances will provide details of any open pools.
Please check with your local pool for availability during school hours as our pools are heavily used for school activities including swimming carnivals.
During times of elevated bushfire risk, some pools may be closed in accordance with Council’s Closure of Public Facilities Due to Bushfire Risk procedure.
Bundanoon Swimming Centre
Update: Bundanoon Swimming Centre is now closed for the 2024/2025 Outdoor Pool Season. Details of the 2025/2026 Outdoor Pool Season and events will be shared here once available.
Season Opening: Saturday 9 November 2024
Season Closing: Sunday 9 March 2025
Hours: Monday/Wednesday 6:00 am - 8:00 am & 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Tuesday/Thursday/Friday 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Public Holidays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
(Closed Christmas Day & Boxing Day)
During the School Holidays the Bundanoon Pool will be open from 6.00 am – 6.00 pm on Monday and Wednesdays and 10.00 am – 6.00 pm on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday.
Address: 70 Erith Street Bundanoon
Phone: (02) 4883 6464
Bowral Swimming Centre
Update: Bowral Swimming Centre is now closed for the 2024/2025 Outdoor Pool Season. Details of the 2025/2026 Outdoor Pool Season and events will be shared here once available.
Season Opening: Sunday 6 October 2024
Season Closing: Sunday 23 March 2025
Hours: Monday - Friday 6:00 am - 7:00 pm
Saturday 8:30 am - 7:00 pm
Sunday 9:30am - 7:00pm
Public Holidays 10:00 am - 5:00pm (Closed Christmas Day)
Address: 152 Mittagong Road Bowral
Phone: (02) 4861 2598
Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre
The indoor aquatic centre is managed by BlueFit on behalf of Council and operates throughout the year.
Please see the aquatic centre's official website for the latest information on opening hours.
Address: 8 Kirkham Street Moss Vale 2577
Phone: (02) 4868 1967
Email: mossvale@bluefit.com.au
Website: mossvaleaquatic.com.au
Features and accessibility information
Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre is a fully accessible indoor venue with Changing Places change facilities, aquatic wheelchairs and ramps into both pools.
All Council pools honour the NSW Companion Card, allowing free entry for anyone accompanying a person with a disability who requires attendant care support.
- Indoor 25 m swimming pool
- Kids splash pad with water toys
- Wide stairs with rail into 25 m pool
- Aqua wheelchair and sling available for use
- Health club including weight and cardio equipment, group fitness area, and classes
- Meeting room available for hire
- Merchandise available for purchase
For more information, please visit the aquatic centre's official website:
Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre
Features and accessibility information
Update: Bowral Swimming Centre is now closed for the 2024/2025 Outdoor Pool Season. Details of the 2025/2026 Outdoor Pool Season and events will be shared here once available.
Bowral swimming centre has a motorised mobility hoist to assist patrons to access both the 50 m and 25 m pools.
All Council pools honour the NSW Companion Card, allowing free entry for anyone accompanying a person with a disability who requires attendant care support.
- All pools heated to 24 degrees
- Outdoor 50 m swimming pool
- Outdoor 25 m swimming pool
- Covered toddler wading pool
- Fully equipped kiosk including a range of accessories
- Shaded grassed area for picnics
- Relax with a cappuccino on the pool deck while enjoying the view
Swimming Lessons
Find information about our Bowral Swimming Centre - Intensive Swimming Lessons program that is running this school holidays.
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Features and accessibility information
Update: Bundanoon Swimming Centre is now closed for the 2024/2025 Outdoor Pool Season. Details of the 2025/2026 Outdoor Pool Season and events will be shared here once available.
- All pools heated to 24 degrees
- Outdoor 25 m swimming pool
All Council pools honour the NSW Companion Card, allowing free entry for anyone accompanying a person with a disability who requires attendant care support.
In order to maintain a safe and fun environment for all users, customers are asked to adhere to the following conditions:
- Children aged 14 years and under must be accompanied and directly supervised by an adult aged 16 years or over.
- Observe pool rules, warning signs, and instructions displayed around the centre.
- Follow the instructions of lifeguards and staff at all times.
- Foul, abusive, or inappropriate language or anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.
- Smoking, alcohol, and illicit drugs are strictly prohibited.
- No photos or video recordings are to be taken in the facility without approval.
- Admission fees must be paid or visit passes must be shown prior to entry.
- Patrons must not damage pool property or facility equipment.
- Recognised swimwear must be worn at all times.
- Glass and sharp objects are not permitted.
- No pushing or rough conduct in or around the pool.
- No bombing, running, or flipping.
- Please stay off the lane ropes.
- Mermaid tails or Mono Fins are not permitted.
- Do not litter, please use the bins provided.
- No ball games, water pistols, boogie boards, surfboards or unapproved inflatables.
Keep Watch at Public Pools
All Council swimming pools enforce Royal Life Saving Australia's Keep Watch at Public Pools guidelines, and users of Council’s swimming centres must observe and abide by this initiative. Parents and guardians are reminded that supervision is required when children are in or out of the water.
All children aged 14 years and under must be accompanied and directly supervised by a responsible adult aged 16 years or over.
Children aged 0 to 5 years old and non-swimmers must be supervised at all times by parents or guardians. Parents/guardians must maintain full attention, stay close to the child or non-swimmer they are supervising (within arm’s reach) and watch them continuously.
Children aged 6 to 10 years old must at all times be accompanied by a parent or guardian, who must be close and be prepared to enter the water at any time, and maintain constant visual contact.
Children aged 11 to 14 years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, who must maintain visual contact.
Hygiene at our pools
Our team works hard to ensure the environment is as hygienic as possible. Please assist us by using good hygiene whilst visiting our pools:
- Do not swim if you have had diarrhoea in the last two weeks.
- Please shower before entering the pools.
- Children under 3 and non-toilet trained toddlers and infants must always wear a tight-fitting swim nappy in the pool.
- Nappies should be changed regularly in the amenities and disposed of in the bin provided, do not change nappies beside the pool.
- Take children and toddlers to the toilet frequently whilst swimming.
- Anyone with an infectious/contagious disease or skin complain must not enter the water or change rooms.
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Over the summer school holiday period Bowral Swimming Centre offered a program of intensive swimming lessons.
The intensive course included 5 x 30 minute lessons across a 5-day program.
Program information
Course dates: Monday 13 January - Friday 17 January
Time slots (30 minutes): between 9.00 am - 12.00 pm
Cost: $84.50 for 5 lessons across the 5-day program. Conditions apply.
We will provide information next Outdoor pool season if this program will be offered in the 2025/2026 Season.
Bowral Pool Inflatable dates 2025 - 2026
Update: Details of the 2025/2026 Pool Season and events will be shared here once available.
| Inflatable event date |
Times |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| TBC |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Our popular Summer Inflatable Events have ended with the close of the 2024/2025 Outdoor Pool Season. Details for next seasons events will be updated here once available.
Please note the inflatable pool events are weather dependant and may be rescheduled or cancelled. Watch this space for additional dates which may be added at a later time. You can check with Bowral Swimming Centre to confirm if inflatable events will go ahead as scheduled 02 4861 2598.
Please note an additional charge will apply to attend inflatable events in addition to a standard pool admission fee.
Frequently asked questions
| Inflatable event date 2024/25 |
Times |
| Friday 11 October |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Saturday 21 December |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Monday 6 January |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Sunday 19 January |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Saturday 8 February |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Sunday 23 February |
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
|
Yes, a swim test conducted by a lifeguard is required to go on the inflatable toy.
The inflatable is located in deep water, so children need to be able to confidently swim to side if they fall off the inflatable toy or when they slide off the end so they can safely move out of the way of other users.
If children are not able to swim to the side, they will not be permitted to go on it.
No, there are no separate time slots for the inflatable toy event.
Parents and supervisors are requested to monitor their children when they are on the inflatable. Our life guards will also do their best to monitor the inflatable to ensure any little ones are not overrun by bigger children.
Wingecarribee Shire is home to three swimming centre and pool facilities:
- Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre
- Bowral Swimming Centre
- Bundanoon Swimming Pool.
Mittagong Pool was permanently closed October 2023; however it had not been operational for several years prior.
Bowral Swimming Centre opened in 1971, with construction funded through a combination of State and Council funding sources and community fundraising.
Yes. It was through community fundraising efforts that Bundanoon Swimming Pool was constructed in 1960. It was then operated by the community for a period of time, but management was handed to Council after it became too difficult.
At the Ordinary Council Meeting of 18 October 2023, Council resolved that that Mittagong Pool is to be permanently closed. This was because repair and retainment of the existing Mittagong Pool is not a sustainable outcome. The facility is constructed directly within the High Hazard flood extents of the Nattai River – and is therefore subject to flood waters that are both high depth and high velocity during large rain events. Since 2016 over $6M has been expended, almost 50:50, on asset renewal and repairs to the facility following flooding events.
The construction and operation of aquatic facilities is a significant financial investment – and therefore a high value needs to be placed on striving for financial sustainability in these facilities.
There is no immediate plan to close either of these pools.
Moss Vale War Memorial Aquatic Centre, Bowral Swimming Centre and Bundanoon Swimming Pool all remain open, and everything is business as usual.
Final consideration of the Aquatics Plan, Regional Aquatic Centre and Multipurpose Indoor Centre Business Cases will be by the newly elected Council following the NSW Local Government elections in September 2024. This is anticipated to be at the 11 December Council meeting.
Should the Aquatics plan be approved by the new Councillors the new Regional Aquatic Centre and Multipurpose Indoor Centre would not be constructed until at lease 2030 and the current pools will remain in operation until this time.
Visit our Wingecarribee Participate site to find all the latests information and news about the Draft Aquatics Plan, Regional Aquatics Centre & Multipurpose Indoor Centre.
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