Greater Morristown YMCA

Beautiful, massive pool is the main draw for me. There are two other gyms nearby with a pool (The Club and Gold’s) and only the one at Gold’s can compare to this. If you are the wake up before work and do some laps kind of swimmer (or your kids are already taking lessons or on a team that practices here) this is your only option.
The fitness floor is cramped and the equipment, though well maintained, shows a lot of wear and tear. Memberships are priced like a luxury gym, and other than the lack of towel service it ticks all the luxury gym boxes — pool, hot tub, classes, sauna, steam room.
Parking is definitely an issue. Between swim lessons/​teams, child programs, and regular gym members there are not enough spaces to go around. Weekend hours are limited. Worth it if you can take advantage of the all the amenities.

I use this gym mainly for lifting weights and occasionally for the treadmills. Unless you are going to attend classes or take advantage of the other amenities it has to offer it is very expensive. I continue to go because of the close proximity to my home.
The facility is always very clean and the staff are friendly enough. Depending on when you go parking can be somewhat of an issue, especially after 5pm.
There are not a lot of meatheads that attend this gym which is a plus for me. You very rarely hear grunting, screaming and the other machismo ridiculousness that often pervades weight rooms. The couple very serious lifters who attend are generally polite and inoffensive
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Everyone is entitled to a safe, clean place to work out in and I understand being new and needing help. But many of the patrons don’t work out so much as they use the various machines and free weight benches as gathering places to sit and chat. It can be frustrating trying to get a quick workout in while constantly asking people if they mind if you use a space or finding out your weights were moved somewhere else while you grab a drink at the fountain. Some patrons have been attending since I have and in that period of time have never learned how to properly use equipment, they just go to socialize.
If you know what you are doing and are on a time crunch you will be frustrated. If you are just looking for a place to maybe work out a bit and socialize it will better suit you.

I’m a not a member of the Morristown Y, I’m actually a member of a Y in NYC but I was spending time in the area because of work. I travel a lot and use local YMCAs for their pools. This one ranks among the top 5 of pools I’ve been to in terms of how nice and clean the pool is, how great the women’s locker room is and how friendly everyone who works there has been. It’s a 25m pool which can be hard to find and they only have a couple of hours a day without lap swimming so the hours are fairly easy and convenient. I don’t know what it’s like to be a member, but as a visitor it’s great. Oh I should add that it’s 6 $ a day for visitors (every Y has a different policy on this), but given the quality of the facilities I don’t mind paying it.

I was first a member of this gym in high school. I graduated college this spring, and at the beginning of this summer I was looking for a nearby gym I could workout and shower at before my new job I was starting. I went to the Greater Morristown YMCA, signed up, and everything was fine for 2 months. I took a month off after some knee pain, but continued to pay my membership. After my knee healed I went back to workout before work again but I had forgotten the locker room code. I went to the front desk to ask for the code, but being that I’m 22 she told me I’m not allowed in the locker room because the age requirement is 23. When I initially signed up earlier in the summer I was not told about this age requirement, and I was given the code to the locker room. However, when I asked her why it wasn’t an issue when I signed up she had no answer for that. I immediately cancelled my membership since I need a gym that allows me to workout, shower, and change before work.

I have bad gym karma. Let me explain. Golds Gym on route 10 has finally collapsed into a heap so after 2 months with no classes and childcare there in late 2013. So providentially, I received a trial pass to check out the Greater Morristown YMCA. The women’s locker rooms at the Y are a revelation and very nice. You can actually go in there, unlike Gold’s. The classes at the YMCA seem pretty good, the main complaint would be that yoga room floors were pretty dusty and maybe a little hairy. Well a little more than dusty, my feet got filthy dirty after walking on the yoga room floors. But I can live with that after years of low standards at Golds. Great joy reigned in our house hold as the years in Golds gym purgatory seemed to fall away. We decided we would join the YMCA and we told the front desk people that we planned to join as a family. The $ 100 intro membership fee would be waived they said. Laaaaaaaa! However on what I thought was the last day of my trial pass the woman at the front desk at the Y, someone I had not seen before, was pretty heavy handed. She took my guest pass and tore it up into little pieces in front of me. Far enough, the card was expiring but it just doesn’t feel good when someone cuts a card up in front of you and everyone else. Then later she gave me a talking to about how the Y has «maintain safety» and be «careful who is allowed in.» I felt maybe, just maybe this was a coded message that they didn’t want my kind as a member. I called the Y membership director, and tried to figure it out. But it was kind of «meh» on the phone, trying to be helpful but not really. So I give the Greater Morristown YMCA a «meh» rating and we’ve decided not to join there. This is what I mean about bad karma in gyms. All I want is a gym that is basically clean, provides classes and a place where I don’t get profiled for being a security risk at the front desk because of my accent. Please help me end this bad karma.

One of the better and cleaner YMCA’s I have been too.
It’s clean and offers lots of classes.
Gym itself is suffice for a decent workout.
Friendly staff.
The run track above the bb courts is a big bonus. Most gyms just have treadmills.
It’s not overly busy and the price range can fit most people’s budgets.
No café but a few vending machine’s.
It’s no frills.