Skoufis announces $750,000 grant for Warwick pool complex upgrades

State Sen. James Skoufis announced a $750,000 grant on June 24 that will let the Town of Warwick expand and enhance its town pool complex, putting fresh state money into one of the community’s most visible summer assets. For Warwick families heading into the season, the funding points to concrete upgrades at a place that already anchors daily recreation in Mountain Lake Park.

The grant builds on an October 2024 recreation package in Orange County that sent more than $2 million toward pools and splash pads. That earlier round included $600,000 for improvements to Warwick’s existing pool in Mountain Lake Park, $720,000 for a new Goshen Aquatic Center and $750,000 for a new splash pad in New Windsor. Local reporting at the time said Warwick’s share was aimed at water quality, infrastructure and technology, showing that the town has already been working to modernize the pool complex before this new award.

Mountain Lake Park sits at the center of that investment. The Town of Warwick says the park is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and offers walking and hiking, pickleball, passive boating, fishing, picnicking and rental facilities for community use. The town’s 2026 pool-pass notice says membership for the Mountain Lake Park Pool is limited to Town of Warwick residents and employees working within the town, which makes the facility a tightly focused local amenity rather than a regional draw.

That local focus is part of why the grant carries immediate practical weight. The town’s pool complex serves families looking for an affordable place to cool off, gather and spend summer days close to home. With the new $750,000 award, Warwick now has additional state support to keep the pool complex competitive and usable as demand rises during the hottest months of the year.

The new funding also highlights Skoufis’s continuing role in steering state capital to visible projects across Orange County. Warwick has now been a recipient in consecutive rounds of recreation aid, and the result is a clearer pattern: public money targeted at a town asset that residents can see, use and measure each summer.