Birthday Parties
Hey Kids of All Ages! The Roeland Park Aquatic Center offers a fun-filled venue for your next birthday party for any age! We offer a fantastic 25-meter-by-25-yard pool, “zero-depth” entry, with fun fountain sprayers for all ages. There must be a minimum of 10 guests and please register at least one week in advance. All parties take place during open swim times. Call for details (913) 432-1377.

50 Meter Pool
The RPAC features four 50-meter lap swimming lanes and a “zero-depth” entry area including sprayers and fountains and a diving well for one-meter board . Other amenities available throughout the year include a bath house complete with men’s and women’s locker rooms, a family change room, a concession area, expanded parking and a convenient drop-off circle drive, as well as staff offices and a control area.

The Dome
Thanks to an air-supported dome which covers the main pool from September through May, the facility is available for use year-round. For approximately two weeks prior to Memorial Day, the RPAC is closed while crews remove the dome and convert it into an open air facility. It takes 40 to 50 people, working on tarps used to temporarily cover the pool, to handle the 6,800 pounds of fabric which makes up the dome.

Aquatic Theme Park Feature
With the dome’s removal, the Roeland Park Aquatic Center becomes an aquatic theme park featuring not only the main pool, but a number of other facilities located outside the dome which are only operated during the summer months. These include: a 120-foot water slide, an eight-foot wide group slide, and a separate youth pool with whale slide and "lemon drop" sprayer. The dome is reinstalled each year after Labor Day.

A Cooperative Venture
The Roeland Park Aquatic Center officially opened on Sept. 20, 1997. Discussions between the City of Roeland Park and the Johnson County Park & Recreation District about the possible construction of a new facility began nearly four years earlier and were triggered by the closure in 1993 of an obsolete city pool. An intergovernmental agreement allowed the City to sell the District the approximately four acres the complex sits on. The city in turn agreed to lease-purchase the facility back from the park District over 20 years. To construct the facility, the District issued $3.3 million in revenue bonds, which freed the city from adding to its bond indebtedness.