★ 5

Lovelybfacility with attentive staff. Weight room, machines, classes to preschedule your attendance, pool, swim classes, Aerobics, multiple adilt exercise classes, hot tub & sauna, customer appreciation events in summer. Free membership for seniors with health insurance.

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★ 5

Ceiling is a touch low in the gym for volleyball, but it works reasonably well. Smart use of space for family showers, smaller pool but the warm pool is popular. Sauna, forced water river, splash pad, are great. Hot tub is a bit small. Workout space upstairs is great. Track is a little weird for running (lots of 90 degree corners) but great for walking.

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I am able to go here because of my age and I have Silver Sneakers! If you have Silver Sneakers on your insurance plan then I highly recommend the YMCA for water aerobics and the Lazy River. For my health needs I go against the flow to build up leg and back muscles.

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★ 5

Very nice

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★ 5

A great place for all ages.

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Walked in and asked for pricing and if was able to get a discount because of my employer. The employee said no sorry unfortunately. Andy turned his back and started helping someone else that arrived after me. One of the other two people behind the desk should have help them, or even me. I guess that took care of my inquiry. Thank you.

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Great facility, clean, friendly and well-equipped. What you want your Y to be.

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Started walking the resistance river and riding the recumbent bicycle about a month before i had my hipped replaced to strengthen the muscles, boy that river is a good lower body workout and the facility in itself is very nice with a lot to offer.

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The building is beautiful and perfectly maintained. There are some older parts of the building, but they have been fixed up and seem well cared for. The Essential waiting room was quiet and had a short wait for an appointment.

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Clean friendly and nice equipment. The free tour with the trainer was very helpful with the equipment I was unfamiliar with.

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★ 5

Great, kind, helpful staff, friendly community, amazing free weight and good machine/cardio sections of the gym. The first year or so of my lifting journey was entirely at this gym and I would highly recommend it for any beginner-advanced intermediate lifters.

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★ 5

An excellent example of what a Fitness center is. Physical therapy & training, swimming facilities, indoor track, studios for classes, free weights and machines are all located in one building. Ontop of all these items this community based center excels at making members feel heard. Incredible place.

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Nice facility, new equipment, I appreciate all that… But something needs to be done about the locker room situation. Is there no boys locker room?? I’m a single, childless, 34 y/o male and today after my workout I return to a bunch of little boys screaming and running around naked in the locker room… I don’t want to be around that! It’s uncomfortable and annoying as can be. I know they have swimming lessons and what not and it’s a family center but I’ve never had an issue with children in the MEN’s locker rooms at any other Y’s around.

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We’ve attended swim lessons at Hermantown and are members for 2 years. Today a substitute swim teacher Barbara combined 2 swim lessons due to staff shortage. 3S and 2P were combined in one group. There were 11 kids in one group. This is appalling and unsafe. This is not what I expected from YMCA. We will have to reconsider continuing our YMCA membership and definitely find safer alternative swim lesson locations. I will have to see how their lead Lilly responds.

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★ 5

This place is the most. Unbelievable. Literally saved my life.

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★ 5

My physical therapist has really helped me feel better. She has worked on ne and gave me exercises to help me at home.

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★ 5

Fancy place; well maintained; wide variety of ages welcome from children to seniors; exceptionally helpful and friendly staff; great and challlenging classes for 55 and above; no judgement

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Little bit of everything in the pool from little kids to adult swimmers, except I would have liked to see dedicated walking lanes for those of us with bad knees that swimming won't work or older people that's the same depth the entire lane, the do have a resistance river that ravages the knees when you walk against it or sweeps you off your feet if you walk with it, plus gas a tendency to have younger people in it just flying around

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★ 5

Our favorite branch in the area. Excellent services and facilities, great schedules, and very clean!

My only complaint is the overwhelming swim lesson pool use at times - many pool room features closing at once to accommodate lessons leaving the room inaccessible to other users.

Be sure to check schedules before arriving.

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★ 5

I don't want to leave such a positive review for fear of everyone going here, but the fact is, this is a well-polished, well run establishment with a wide variety of offerings at a very fair price.

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★ 5

Very great facilities that are clean... New favorite place to workout.

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They had everything I needed for a workout. The resistance river was great! Staff is very helpful and friendly. Very glad I joined.

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★ 5

Really nice club for a Y, and in Duluth. Clean with a fair amount of group fitness offerings, although a few more in the late afternoon would be nice for working people. Enough equipment and weights plus a nice pool area. Would recommend as a great health club choice in the area.

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I come here for work and leisure. The gym is nice and I love the pool.

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Very friendly staff!

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I love the classes, the machines, and the atmosphere. They have childcare, and the spaces are inviting and open. The pool looks fantastic, and i am excited to try it out .

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We utilize both the Essentia and the downtown Y's and both are great for a healthy lifestyle.

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★ 5

Clean, open, lots of things for the family to do.

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Really nice place. Pool is one of the best in the area.

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Lots of walking to get anywhere

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Great atmosphere

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I am not from the area, so I have only been to this YMCA a few times. The YMCA memberships are valid no matter which location you are at which is very nice however the guest pass is $12 I believe. Anything you can think of, this place pretty much has! The pool is very very fun for a little kids at the running track is better than usual.

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★ 5

This place is always clean and had something for everyone.

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Review for gym junkies/lifters:
Clean, spacious environment but LIMITED free weight section and only one of each for machines/benches - so during busy times you will be waiting! Younger demographic at this facility, some that sit on their phone on equipment.
4pm-6pm are usually very busy times.
Parking is no problem here vs the downtown branch.

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Always disappointing for the kids. Pool is always full and they don't let anyone one else in. Even if you call ahead to check and then you tell your kids they get to go swimming and you drive all the way there just to get turned away. It's not fun disappointing your kids like that.

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Overall, it's great. Good quality machines, clean locker room, great variety of classes. On the downside, there are a lot of people who do not wipe down the machines after use, especially the older teens. I have brought this forward, with no change. That is nasty. There are a lot of children who are unsupervised running about. There is also a loud trainer who works with some kids, that's great, but not everyone wants to listen to your training session.Finally, if something breaks, it's down for a long time. Showers, sinks, and machines, for example.

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Very clean and nice staff

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Great staff. Very clean. Locker area is a little small but that's the only downside. Great place for young families

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★ 5

My daughter went here for physical therapy. They are excellent!

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Aways is clean and the people that work here are awesome

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The basketball court is often occupied with children running around. It is a play pen for kids after school to be dumped off and run wild unsupervised. Avoid from 3-5 pm. Typically the floor is wet and dirty due to outdoor shoes and lack of cleaning upkeep. It is one of the few fitness centers in the are with a full gym, so I painfully pay the membership fee despite the issues. Emailed staff to no avail. The weight center is a better are compared to the gym. Overall not an enjoyable experience oftentimes when I go.

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★ 5

Clean facility, friendly staff, ample parking, and a variety of gym equipment.

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welcoming environment, great equipment, clean facility, kind employees

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Has everything you need

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I just went in for Essentia Health business.

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Just love the Hermantown YMCA. The people are so kind, friendly and very helpful. The locker rooms are nice and clean as is the rest of the facilities.

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Great all around, actually has a good basketball court. Could expand and make a volleyball/tennis/pickleball court.

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The best Y in the Twin Ports

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Nice facility but limited hours. Sometimes over crowded and the hot tub only has an occupancy of 3 despite being able to comfortably fit more. Not well thought out.

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Excellent classes. Instructors, and staff.

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Love it here so far! These guys have been so good to me while recovering from back injuries.
Thank you!
Great facility, they've got everything. Best staff anywhere!

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Very clean and great staff!

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Top notch facility with a wide range of equipment and offerings. Friendly staff, clean and modern.

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Very much so a clean , nice, well lit “wellness center”. Locker rooms are clean. Equipment is clean and always in working condition.

If you’re a looking for a good “weightlifting” place… this certainly is not the place for you.

Certainly has its perks over other gyms in the Duluth/Hermantown area

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★ 5

Great atmosphere and excellent staff! If your looking for a gym or kids extracurricular activities this is the place to come to.

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This is one of the nicest YMCAs I have been to. There is a lot of great equipment, nice fitness studios and a beautiful indoor pool along with a therapy pool, a hot tub and a small water park for kids. But the best part is the staff - they are incredibly nice and helpful. I really enjoy going there and love the classes!

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★ 5

Very handicap accessible was so fun taking my resident here

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Love this facility! So nice!

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The good: Equipment is modern and installed correctly (good plates/barbells/racks). Bumpers for only lifters on platforms which you wont find many other places around here. Locker rooms clean.

The bad: Gym needs more equipments. Any gym worth their salt needs atleast 3 squat racks and there are only 2 here. Racks will fill up and you will be waiting even off peak hours. Also only one bench and it's entirely too small (narrow bench / short distance from ground) this bench is not safe to use for man with a decent sized frame, and there is only one. Scale in the bathroom is an ancient rusty mechanical scale despite the gym being relatively new, and is not calibrated or properly maintained.

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Really like the swimming pool and kids loved it

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Love how kind the staff is and the cleanliness of the facility.

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Love the gym, but wanted to go to the therapy pool after but was filled with little kids and their parents. Wish they would use the "kiddie pool" instead.

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Love the Y & my classes I take & the instructor is awesome, Heidi.

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Finally got an opportunity to check this place out. All equipment is very nice and there is plenty for everyone. Courts, pool, and meeting areas were spotless. Great facility.

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Clean and spacious. Could use a few more lockers

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Great place for having birthday parties.

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This is a good place for kids....not adults.
I've come here soo many times looking to use the therapy pool and hot tub to find it continually out of service or filled with little kids. Not adult friendly, dosnt matter what day of the week. Very unimpressed

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A great addition to the community, it's not very expensive and there are so many things to do here.

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Its a nice Y with updated facilities and everything you could want in a gym.

However, they dont use a queue for the pool, or even a heads up. It’s out in the edge of forested land, and has a fancy awkwardly luxurious 5-star hotel (wasteful) gas heat fire place as part wall/hallway decoration and cozy spot for 2 chairs...

...meanwhile, the downtown Y is trying to serve 10 times the density of people per square mile, has the least parking access, facilities that are in great need of updating, and a growing user base that needs that Y to expand and increase access.

This Y, while quite nice, even luxurious... is calling into question the intent and commitment to YMCA mission goals and spirit of service to community.

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★ 5

Very kid friendly something for everyone 🙂

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Nice, clean facility that promotes healthy lifestyles for the young and old. Highly recommend!

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Love the new YMCA , it is a beautiful new place that we really needed.. the pool is beautiful.

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The facility is great and the staff are even better! So happy I finally got a membership, worth every penny.

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Good place to exercise

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We love the YMCA for family time, swimming lessons, a very clean workout facility and we are very glad they are expanding their hours Jan 1st, 2022! Wish they would expand their kid care hours-

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Best Y in the Midwest that my family and I been to. Great pool for adults, kids and even infants. The therapy pool is bathwater and the cycle-jet pool is by far one of the best cardio sessions you can get. Innovative and impact free, yet you can still lunge, sumo hop-squat, and even "sprint"!

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It's a blast to go there and work out and swim

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Super nice pool

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Good gym. It costs $5 for a day pass and $20 a month for a youth pass (ages 0-17). I only go here for the basketball court which is closed half the times I go for soccer practice or volleyball league. The pool is nice. The gym has a bunch of machines. Customer service is very good, but they have given me wrong information about the courts being open and then when I show up they are closed. The staff also gets mad at you very easily for doing simple stuff like dribbling a few times in the hallway. Overall this is probably the best gym in the Duluth area. I would recommend going to check it out for only $5.

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Nice YMCA

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I wanted so much to join the YMCA. I learned however, that there are very few hours that the THERAPY POOL was open to be used for THERAPY. There are only pool therapy appointments available 12-3 and many of the "open therapy pool hours" are over run by kids either having, waiting for, or just finishing swim lessons. I would ultimately have to quit one of my jobs to make it worth the money. My doctor told me to find a therapy pool. The "Essentia" name is on the building. Turns out it is all about money and not the THERAPY! If you are a family with young kids it is a wonderful facility. If you are looking for a THERAPY POOL, don't waste your money. or your time trying. Especially if you have a job and can't go smack dab in the middle of the day.

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Has great potential to be an awesome facility but the hours if you work 9 to 5 arent good for working people during the day. Awesome basketball court and pool. The weight room needs alot of equipment and accessories. For example there are no belts for squatting that anyone can use or dipping belts. They have a giant TRX system that rarely anyone uses and just takes up space that a bunch of other stuff could go in that place. I've asked the director personally if they were getting any and she just said she had a list and would add it to it. That was several months ago. There isn't very much cables and barely any back row type machines. The sauna hours are only open if the pool is open and that is difficult to figure out on a daily basis. The locker rooms are great but the 1 temperature button sucks because its blazing hot and when you get done with a hard workout and looking forward to a nice cool shower its impossible. So you basically continue to sweat throughout getting dressed. The people are great and helpful with everything but the lack of accessories and equipment need fixed. I will continue to keep going to the downtown duluth or superior ymca.

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Beautiful facility!

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Wished they had longer hours on weekdays and weekends. I work 10 + hour days and it is hard to get there. Love the gym and the atmosphere there but longer hours would be amazing!

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Beautiful YMCA! Thanks for an awesome experience for an out of state Ymca member!

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★ 5

Well i signed up but then cova hit. I did get to get a walk through the YMCA. It has a beautifully walking track, weight lifting machines. Pool and Jacuzzi is nice. They have classes of yoga. You can go and leave a class dont have to stay the full session . The staff is very nice. I highly recommend this place.

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Big pool and cheap entry!

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I love this place. Love the walking track and the resistance river!

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Awesome facility

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Beautiful

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It’s clean and employees are super friendly and helpful. Many different machines and work out areas. The first workout and health fitness place that I have felt comfortable and enjoy going too. A+

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Nice clean modern facility. Friendly staff

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Beautiful family friendly fitness facilities and community center with cafe, childcare, and therapy clinic on site!

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New, nice place. Lots of activities and friendly staff.

**Don’t expect any cell signal or strong wifi.** Who would have thought everyone wants this when it was built just a few years ago.

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This place is great! It can be obnoxious when a class takes over the weight room instead of a designated workout room.

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Nice pool and shower/changing rooms.

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Like the facility but the gym rules along with weekend hours have to change. Saturday and only open until 2?

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I love coming here with my son! Its a beautiful facility with very nice staff!

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Clean and safe

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It was not a good experience

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LOVE having a YMCA close to home with proper parking unlike the downtown location. I only gave 2 stars because the main reason we joined was for the kids and they dont offer many youth classes. I'll update my review once classes are added to the schedule.

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The summer camp is amazing for kids under 12. They have done an excellent job adjusting to COVID and keeping all the children and staff with a safe environment.

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