--- title: "Oak Park Active Living Centre | Have Goggles, Will Travel" description: "Friday morning swim not too far from home.. 25m indoor pool. Located in Walsall, UK. Rating: 55/100." canonical_url: "https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood" meta: "og:description": "Friday morning swim not too far from home.. 25m indoor pool. Located in Walsall, UK. Rating: 55/100." "og:title": "Oak Park Active Living Centre" --- ![Oak Park Active Living Centre pool photo](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=1280,h=544,f=webp,q=30,fit=cover/pool/113/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood-square.jpg) 113 # Oak Park Active Living Centre Walsall, UK Friday, 21 April 2023 ![Oak Park Active Living Centre pool photo](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=1856,h=788,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/113/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood-square.jpg) ## Friday morning swim not too far from home. Typical UK weather, shorts and t-shirt yesterday, miserable, wet and grey today! (and now sunny again as I write this, four hours later). Would usually head to my regular Wyndley swimming pool today for a Friday morning swim, but as I'm on a mission to add two pools per week at the moment, I'll make the 20-minute drive to what I initially thought was a brand new pool - which happens to be not too far from my local saltwater fish store where I but frozen food for my fish! The pool was split into three lap swim lanes, divided by speed, with a public swim session in the other half. The pool deck is surprisingly large and well-lit. Still, it would benefit from some natural light through the large windows surrounding the pool, each heavily tinted to the point that it looked like a cold winter evening outside, not a (cloudy) Spring mid-morning! The water has a slightly weird, saline taste and is quite 'murky' below the surface. I don't actively drink the pool water, but this was the sort of dry-your-mouth-out water! Completed an initial 1km at what I thought was a decent pace, but the watch clocked in at 15:04, which isn't great - it makes me wonder if my usual Wyndley swimming pool (my benchmark for swim times) is actually shorter than we think! Finish up a total of 3.2km, then head to pick up some food for the fish on the way home. The pool and facilities were great, however (unless I got the wrong end of the stick), an older lady in the slow lane was moaning about me having a fast lane all to myself whilst she had to make 5-minute there-and-back-head-up breaststroke trips with two other people in her lane! She was still going on about it after I finished another 300m. The car park features a coal mine headstock monument, I beleive the centre is built on the site of the once Walsall Wood Colliery, a coal mine that closed in 1964. - ![Oak Park Active Living Centre gallery image](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=640,h=480,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/113/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood-square.jpg) - ![Oak Park Active Living Centre gallery image](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=640,h=480,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/113/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood-sign.jpg) - ![Oak Park Active Living Centre gallery image](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=640,h=480,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/113/oak-park-active-living-centre-walsall-wood-coal-mine.jpg) ### Pool Review (55 / 100) I thought this was a brand new pool during the swim; everything was clean and looked like new, I've now found it's seven years old - which isn't old, but it still looks new-new! [Follow me on Instagram →](https://www.instagram.com/havegoggleswilltravel/) ### Swim Stats - 3200m swim distance - 1:29 pace / 100m - Garmin Swim 2 Watch ### Pool Details - Indoor pool - Pool length 25m - 6 lanes Oak Park Active Living Centre [Coppice Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall WS9 9BH, UK](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/map?pool=113) [←Backwell Leisure Centre](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/backwell-leisure-center) [Chase Leisure Centre→](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/chase-leisure-centre-pool-cannock-uk) ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.