Upcoming Events
At Grottoes Pool Preservation Foundation, we believe in bringing the community together through exciting events and activities. Keep an eye on this space for updates on our upcoming events, including fundraisers, volunteer opportunities, and community gatherings.
2025 GRAND REOPENING OF THE GROTTOES POOL
LOCATED IN GRAND CAVERNS PARK
We had so much fun celebrating our accomplishments and showing off our beautiful pool to the community. The water might’ve been a little chilly, but we still jumped in!
We have now raised over $90k! We paid for the necessary repairs/remodeling to fix leaks, donated $30k towards a brand new pool deck, purchased $10k worth of brand new pool furniture, and will continue to support the pool by replacing the pool fence and saving to assist the town with future repairs/renovations to the pool building.
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our efforts and the pool! Annual passes are for sale at the office/lodge at Grand Caverns Park. Hope to see you and your families at the pool this season!
Swimming into Summer Bingo & Silent Auction Update
We had SO much fun at our Swimming into Summer Bingo and Silent Auction!
With the help of our community members, the foundation, the wonderful businesses and supporters who donated items, time and resources… we raised over $11,000! This was our biggest bingo yet! Our goal for this bingo was to fundraise enough so that we could purchase and provide all of the necessary pool furniture. Safe to say we’ve met our goal
After this $11k, we’ve now officially raised $77k! This has allowed us to pay $30k on the leak repair, we have committed $30k towards the concrete deck repair and we are purchasing $10k in pool furniture (includes updating picnic tables and purchase additional seating for the pool). The remaining funds will go towards future pool house repairs. Don’t forget, the pool still needs lifeguards! This is a great job for any students out for the summer. Please apply through the town website.
THANK YOU to all of our supporters, community members, our fantastic foundation members and volunteers, and to all of the businesses and individuals that donated their time, money, resources, and items.
A Night Out at Alpine Goat Brewery
We had SO much fun celebrating our pool and people last night at our Night Out event! We raised $4,060 because of YOUR support! As Maite, our President, mentioned last night, “our mission for the Grottoes Pool Preservation Foundation is twofold. One to preserve and reopen the pool— which we’ve done. Two is to rejuvenate it with events like tonight and future fundraisers.” We want to see the pool thrive and will continue to raise money for the different projects that will support our mission.
Now time for some very important thank yous! It takes a village for our events and fortunately for us, we have the best one.
Thank you to our wonderful venue The Alpine Goat Brewery for hosting and working with us. A beautiful event space with yummy beer! Thank you to our caterer Log Cabin Barbecue for the delicious BBQ dinner and making it all so easy. Thank you to the comedians The Funny Womacks for your hilarious show and support of our cause. Thank you to Rocked by Redbeard for such a fun night and all of the dancing! Special shoutout to our live auctioneer Rachel Crawford Jackson! We think she’s found a new career!
Special thank you to our live auction donors - Hannah Mary Wills (local artist) and her beautiful painting, Rachel Jackson for the men’s sweater and Yeti rambler, Karen Michael’s Airbnb, Lil Gus’s for the gift certificate, Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport for the travel voucher, Nadina Pupic for the travel accessories, Tyler at Massanutten for the family passes, Sarah Parker for the beautiful wreath, and Zlatko Pupic for the handmade wooden planters!