Blue Ridge Swim Club, Historic swimming pool in Ivy, United States

Blue Ridge Swim Club is a swimming facility in Ivy, Albemarle County, featuring a concrete pool approximately 100 yards long and 10 yards wide. The water depth varies from about 30 inches to 10 feet, allowing swimmers of different abilities to use the same facility.

The facility was built in 1913 as part of a boys' camp and ranks among the oldest outdoor swimming places still in use in Virginia. Over the decades, it evolved from a camp setting into a family-oriented swimming club.

The pool was dug in 1913 for the Blue Ridge Camp for boys, and the club keeps that camp name rather than one taken from the mountains. Its concrete basin, 100 yards by 10 yards, is fed by Ivy Brook through a gravity system, so bathers swim in brook water rather than a treated municipal pool.

The pool lies at 1275 Owensville Road in Ivy, off the road through the Blue Ridge Camp property. Its concrete basin is 100 yards long and 10 yards wide, with a sloping floor from 30 inches to 10 feet, so shallower water sits at one end. Water arrives from Ivy Brook by gravity feed rather than a pumped system.

The pool is fed by Ivy Brook through a gravity feed system, not by pumps. The concrete basin is 100 yards long and 10 yards wide, with a sloping floor from 30 inches to 10 feet deep. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 mainly for the pool itself.