The Flesherton Pond provides safe (but unsupervised) family swimming with a sandy beach, change rooms, toilets and picnic tables. Similar facilities are at the Markdale Pond (west at the lights on Main St.)

Lake Eugenia public beach provides a safe place to swim for children and adults. Trees providing shade and a wide shallow swimming area is perfect for the young ones. (follow Canrobert St. east from Cty 13 in Eugenia, to the boat launching parking lot).

For those more adventurous or seeking the proverbial country swimming hole, there are many places on the Beaver River, such as at the canoe access point just north of Kimberley, left off Cty 13. Another even less frequented place is below the old Bailey bridge where Cty 30 turns south after leaving Cty 13 just south of Kimberley. Where the road bends there is a track straight ahead, through a barricade, that crosses a branch of the river and then, at the river itself, there is a pool (with a bit of a current) that is deep enough to dip in.

West of Priceville, north of Cty 4 on the unopened part of Bootjack Ranch Road, there was once a bridge over the Saugeen, long gone. The road is rough, but can be driven then walked, to a deep pool directly within the legal road allowance. Unfortunately yahoos visit the place and leave beer bottles and other garbage and the owners do try to prevent public access. In return for learning about the place, maybe you would take in an empty garbage bag and remove some of the junk to help redeem the bad guys.

Possibly the ultimate personal, private swimming hole is the Grotto in the Feversham Gorge. Not much bigger than a decent-sized swimming pool, it has 20' cliffs on one side, a small waterfall on the other, gurgling rapids feeding into it, a rocky bottom, clean clear water shared only by trout, cedar and hardwoods surrounding it and is the sort of magic place you expect to find a wood nymph taking a dip. The only problem is, the water is largely spring-fed and therefore cold even in late summer when other ponds and rivers have become soupy warm. For directions, see the Hiking section in this site.