Centennial Beach

On a HOT HOT day in July few things are more refreshing than cooling off in the local pool. Downtown Naperville has concerted an old quarry into a pool. It is huge - A large sand beach, located next to the shallow end, is perfect for toddlers and digging in the sand. The Beach is within an abandoned, double quarry alongside the DuPage River. The facility covers almost 6 acres (24,000 m²) of land with a full two acres (8,000 m²) or 6.2 million gallons of open water from lake Michigan, all tested, re-circulated and chlorinated on site - to quote wikkipedia.


A few of us went over and cooled off exquisitely well. The pool is about six blocks from the house making it very convenient.