Ladner Leisure Centre
Ladner Leisure Centre is a City of Delta recreation centre in Ladner, on Clarence Taylor Crescent about 2 km east of the village. It has two pools and a swirl pool, an arena, a weight room and two fitness studios under one roof.
Please note: LadnerBC.com is a privately owned local guide with no affiliation with the City of Delta, which runs the leisure centre. Hours, drop-in times and admission change, so this page links to the City for all three.
Hours, drop-ins and admission
What's inside
The aquatic centre has a main pool and a leisure pool whose zero-depth entry slopes in like a beach. There's a swirl pool (the City's name for its hot tub), a sauna, a diving board and a climbing wall over the water, and an inflatable obstacle course comes out at set times. Public swims and lane swims both run here.
Depending on the season, the City sets the arena up with ice for skating and hockey or with a dry floor for other sports, and its page for the centre gives the months. During public skates you can rent skates or get your own sharpened. The City's arena page has the skating and hockey programs and the details for booking the arena.
For cardio, the weight room has treadmills, stair climbers, rowers, ellipticals, and stationary and recumbent bikes. For strength, it has free weights, squat racks, a Smith machine, a bench press and an Olympic lifting platform. The City asks weight-room users to fill in the PARQ+ health questionnaire first, and teens aged 13 to 15 do an orientation in their first session. Both are on the City's fitness page.
There are two climate-controlled studios as well: one for fitness classes, with full-length mirrors and a sound system, and a spin studio with a glass wall that opens.
The building also has a coffee shop, meeting rooms and a Customer Service Office. Besides recreation programs and admission, that office hands out the stickers for green cans and extra garbage bags, along with blue and yellow recycling bags. It's also where people collect the water barrels and composters they've ordered, and drop off old batteries.
Outside, a covered multi-sport court (a lacrosse box with a roof and lights) stands beside the building, and a skate park sits on the grounds just north of it. For basketball and other gym sports, the City's Ladner gymnasium is at the Ladner Community Centre, near the village.
Getting there
The address is 4600 Clarence Taylor Crescent. The centre sits between Clarence Taylor Crescent and Highway 17A, about 400 m south of Ladner Trunk Road and about 200 m north of Delta City Hall, in the part of town the City calls its civic precinct.
From Ladner Village it's about 2 km east. By car, take Ladner Trunk Road east, turn south on Harvest Drive, then follow Clarence Taylor Crescent east to the parking lots.
The Ladner Exchange bus loop is about 300 m away, and TransLink's Trip Planner has the routes.
Parking
OpenStreetMap maps three lots on the grounds. One runs along the north end of the building's west side, where the driveway comes in from Clarence Taylor Crescent. A bigger one is to the north, beside the Delta Gymnastics building, and a small one is on the east side, toward Highway 17A. The City's page for the centre says nothing about parking, so the map is the source for all three.
Two of them have electric-vehicle chargers: a two-car FLO station by the west lot and a BC Hydro site in the north lot.
Hours, schedules and admission
The City posts the hours on its page for the centre, with this season's drop-in schedules for the pools, the fitness classes and the arena. Drop-in swims, skates and classes can be booked ahead through the City's online drop-in system, and Fees & Admissions has the prices and passes.
Holiday hours and closures go up in City news. The City says its aquatic and fitness centres close for maintenance every year, and it posts those dates there.
The City's recreation access page explains drop-in check-in and the Facility Admission Card, along with its code of conduct and its help for people on low incomes.
The City's aquatics page has its supervision rules for young children, along with the rest of the pool and changeroom rules.
Accessibility
The City describes most of the building as accessible to wheelchair users and people with limited mobility, and it reports that the centre holds Rick Hansen Foundation accessibility certification. Its list of features runs long: large family change rooms, hand-held shower heads from the front desk, pool lifts and a sling lift for transfers, water wheelchairs, walkers and carts, the zero-depth leisure pool, adapted weight and cardio equipment, an elevator, and sledges to rent at the "Everyone Welcome" skates.
The City's Accessibility Support Program pairs trained volunteers with people with disabilities who want to take part in recreation.
What's nearby
The centre sits among Ladner's civic buildings. Rotary Park borders it to the south. Past the park is Delta City Hall, and past that the City's local-history museum, the Douglas J. Husband Discovery Centre, which also holds the Delta Archives. Delta Gymnastics is next door to the north, Delta Hospital is about 250 m west, and the fenced off-leash area in Paterson Park is about 300 m to the northwest. Across Highway 17A are Association Park and Holly Elementary, with the Holly Park synthetic field.
About 1.7 km west, near the village, are three more City recreation buildings: the Ladner Community Centre, the Ladner Outdoor Pool and the McKee Seniors Recreation Centre. The Ladner Pioneer Library (about 1.8 km) and the Genesis Theatre beside Delta Secondary (about 1.9 km) are a little farther, and Ladner Village itself, home of the village market, is about 2 km away.
History
The building went up in three stages. The arena came first, in the 1970s. The aquatic centre was built onto it in the early 1990s, and a fitness addition with an elevator followed in the mid-2000s.
In 2014, about two-thirds of the stucco on the arena's east wall pulled away from its steel frame, and the City replaced that wall's entire facade. That rebuild also moved the spin studio to a room beside the pool and put new dehumidifiers in the arena, and it won the Recreation Facilities Association of BC's Bill Woycik Memorial Award. The centre's waterslide, a 75 m run the City called the Whirlwind Willy, came down with its tower the same year.
The covered court beside the building opened in 2022, five years after the Delta Lacrosse Association asked for one. In 2023 the pool hall closed for more than six months for roof repairs. That year's work also replaced its windows, roofing and cladding and updated its mechanical and filtration systems, and work on the roof's exterior went on after the pools reopened.
Questions and answers
Does the Ladner Leisure Centre have a hot tub?
Yes. The City calls it the swirl pool, and there's a sauna as well.
Does the Ladner Leisure Centre have a gym?
It has a weight room with cardio machines and free weights, and two fitness studios. The City's gymnasium in Ladner is at the Ladner Community Centre.
Where is the Ladner Leisure Centre swim schedule?
On the City's page for the centre, which links this season's pool, fitness and arena schedules.
Can you rent skates at the Ladner Leisure Centre?
Yes, during public skating sessions, when you can also get skates sharpened.
Where do you park at the Ladner Leisure Centre?
OpenStreetMap shows three lots on the grounds: on the building's west side, to the north beside Delta Gymnastics, and on the east side toward Highway 17A.
Is the Ladner Leisure Centre wheelchair accessible?
The City describes most of the building as accessible and reports Rick Hansen Foundation certification. Its features include pool lifts, a sling lift, water wheelchairs and an elevator.