Facilities
Welcome to the Meriden YMCA!
Our complete fitness facility downtown includes:
(Click red links below to learn more and to see photos)
- a 6-lane, 25-yard indoor heated pool
- sauna; air-conditioned fitness center with a complete array of Precor Cardio, Cybex Strength Training Equipment & Free Weights
- two racquetball courts
- an indoor track
- a gym with 6 basketball hoops
- aerobics studio with free unlimited drop-in aerobics classes for full members
- free spinning classes for full members in our spinning studio
- free water aerobics classes for full members
- locker rooms
- child watch babysitting service - free while you workout during our Child Watch hours for those with family memberships
- our Exergame Fitness Arcade!
Our Mountain Mist Outdoor Center at 576 High Hill Road, which is available for use by full members, includes:
- a beautiful outdoor pool;
- 66 acres of hiking and walking trails
- basketball and tennis courts
- playscapes
- horseshoes
- softball fields
- sand volleyball court
- picnic grove and pavilions
- Our Outdoor Center is also available for rentals for school and corporate events, birthday parties, picnics, reunions, and wedding receptions.
- Click here to see photos
"We had our daughters birthday party this weekend at the y outdoor center... It was awesome and the y staff was so helpful!!!" - Kimberly Andersen
" Thank you for hosting the Girl Scouts at the Mountain Mist facilities for their Bridging Ceremony. The staff was very helpful. It was a very generous gesture. As parents of a girl in the troop, we wanted you to know that your kindness and support, as well as you staff's, are very much appreciated. " - Ruth and Matti Lilback
Contact Steve Markoja at 203-235-6386 x17 or smarkoja@meridenymca.org for rental questions and contracts.
Please note: GPS directions for 576 High Hill Road are not always correct and may take you to High Hill Road in Wallingford. Please be sure to enter High Hill Road, Meriden, CT 06450.
Our Y Arts Center at 14-16 West Main Street is home of our Meriden Youth Theater and other art programs, cooking classes, Yoga Studio, drum, keyboard/piano, and guitar lessons, and massage therapy room.
In South Meriden we have our Little Hounds preschool program located in Hanover School and our
The Meriden YMCA also has the following child care facilities:
- Infant & Toddler Learning Center at 95/99 Main Street in South Meriden.
- Meriden YMCA Little Rascals Daycare Center at 43 Swain Ave.
- Meriden YMCA Head Start at 398 Liberty Street.
- Meriden YMCA Martin A. Gaffey Child Care Center at 66 Crown Street.