KCUR Courtney Richardson stands outside Parkwood Pool, where she grew up swimming on Quindaro Boulevard. It's currently closed. Everyone deserves a safe place to swim, but we live in a region of pool haves and have-nots: This summer there are zero public pools open in Kansas City, Kansas, while Lenexa has three pools for a third of the population. For more stories like this one, subscribe to Real Humans on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Kansas City, Kansas, only has one public pool. It's closed this year — but not empty. With temperatures hovering at or above 90 degrees for weeks, Parkwood Pool at North 10th Street and Quindaro Boulevard shimmers like a blue jewel at the edge of the road. Filled with water, and nothing but a chain link fence keeping wishful swimmers from the promise of the other side.