Help design our new community pool
Friends of the Campbell Pool helps neighbors shape and advocate for Campbell's future aquatic center. Share your priorities, explore ideas, and add your voice to the public conversation. Pick features, arrange a layout, set your priorities, and leave feedback.
Tell the City of Campbell that planning and delivering a new aquatic center should remain a priority.
Community momentum
19 neighbors have earned a designer badge.
Let’s get to 25 pool designs!
New game
Dive into the design
Take a swim through the pool ideas neighbors care about, collect the fruit rings that sink to the bottom, and help Campbell reach 5,000 rings together. It takes a few minutes and is fun for all ages.
50 rings collected
You can design freely — sign in when you're ready to submit and vote.
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Before the city pool, there was a school pool.
Look back at Campbell High School's pool through photographs preserved by the Campbell Museums. These scenes connect the place we remember with the community pool we are imagining today.
Who we are
Our mission
Friends of the Campbell Pool is an independent volunteer group helping neighbors advocate for a modern, welcoming, and accessible aquatic center at the Campbell Community Center. We gather resident input, advocate for the project, and help make sure the new aquatic center reflects what our community actually wants.
Get involved
Help make the pool happen
Sign the petition
Add your name to the Change.org petition supporting a new, accessible aquatic center for Campbell.
Sign the petitionShare your voice
Design your ideal pool and submit it. Your feature picks and priorities are aggregated into community results that Friends can share to support the public planning conversation.
Design your poolShare an official comment or design with the CityDonate
The Campbell Parks and Recreation Foundation accepts donations through Zeffy, Zelle, or check. See the official donation options.
Donation detailsCome to a meeting
We meet monthly to review progress and plan next steps. Everyone in the community is welcome to join.
Want to pitch in? Contact us and tell us how you'd like to help.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is Friends of the Campbell Pool?
Friends of the Campbell Pool is an independent community initiative created to help Campbell residents imagine, shape, and support the future of public aquatics in our city.
Our goals are to:
- Share accurate and understandable project updates
- Encourage broad community participation
- Collect stories, memories, needs, and ideas
- Advocate for an inclusive and financially sustainable aquatic center
- Help maintain community support throughout the lengthy planning and funding process
We believe Campbell should have a welcoming public aquatic facility for swim lessons, water safety, fitness, recreation, social connection, and community life.
Is this an official City of Campbell website?
No. Friends of the Campbell Pool is not operated by the City of Campbell.
Official project decisions, budgets, schedules, meeting notices, and public documents come from the City. When we share official information, we will identify the source and link back to the City's materials on the City of Campbell Aquatics page.
Questions about City programs, refunds, passes, staffing, or formal project decisions should be sent to poolproject@campbellca.gov.
What is the difference between the City project and the Friends project?
The City of Campbell is responsible for the official aquatic center project, including hiring designers, approving plans, applying for grants, identifying funding, obtaining permits, constructing the facility, and determining how it will operate.
Friends of the Campbell Pool supports the community side of the process. We encourage residents to participate, make project information easier to understand, share community-generated ideas, and advocate for the project to remain a priority.
How is my design used?
Every submitted design and priority ranking is aggregated into the results page, giving a clear picture of what the community wants. We share these community-generated ideas to support the City's official planning process.
When will the pool be built?
Timelines depend on funding and City approvals, and official schedules come from the City of Campbell. Join our newsletter to stay up to date, and check the City of Campbell Aquatics page for official milestones.
Around the pool
A shoutout to the public art at the Campbell Community Center
The sports murals around the pool and gymnasium bring color, movement, and imagination to the place where Campbell gathers.
Sports murals
Color and movement around the pool
Around the walls of the Community Center swimming pool and gymnasium buildings
Created by Niles Palmer of Sportsart in Whittier, California, these murals capture the energy of sports in playful, imaginative scenes.
Photos and artwork details reproduced from page 5 of the City of Campbell's Public Art Locations guide . Artist attribution: Niles Palmer / Sportsart. Friends of the Campbell Pool is not affiliated with the artists or the City.