Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre

Fantastic experience: They addressed the issues and seem to take more care with the children now. Thank you

Positive experience: It’s ok though they have to renovate the bathrooms.

Positive experience: I dealt with the ladies at the Front Desk. Very polite and helpful.

Positive experience: Decent weight room, friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Word

Fantastic experience: Very good facility. Awesome service. With all equipments & well maintained.

Positive experience: Great service friendly staff. Underfunded, so it's not up to its full potential.

Negative experience: I do like the place, but you guys are not really as family focused as one may think. Toddler swim is at typical baby/toddler nap time, from 1-230 and then family swim is in the afternoon 230-4 only 1.5h which is not very long but having little children wake up every day at 6 with nothing exciting for them to do allllllll day is really quite depressing on a poor mum with tiny ones. It is the same with the entire base and city, most craft or family events are catered to older kids, not really younger ones who need just as much fun interactive things to do. It could just be so much greater if the times were better. ☹

Fantastic experience: Great place and I have only been to the pool

Fantastic experience: Clean bright environment to meet people and get some exercise. No matter what your fitness level is.

Positive experience: Large facility with a swimming pool, wooden floor gym, weight room and rock climbing wall. If you're posted to Cold Lake and you want to better yourself as a soldier or an athlete, you will be visiting here a lot. Staff is friendly amd lots of local recreational teams and events happening. Great place to build and join communities if you are into sports.

Fantastic experience: A older facility but never the less a very clean and well maintained facility. I liked reading about why it was named after Col J.J. Parr. The building is a fitting tribute to an outstanding officer of our Canadian Armed Forces. It will be nice to an end to COVID 19 and see this building rocking again with athletics!

Positive experience: Has everything. Pool. Rink. Gym. Squash courts. Outdoor gym.

Fantastic experience: Ive only been on the outside but its great, it has a great outdoor Gym for people looking to workout, the outdoor gym includes instructions for each machine and how many reps you should do, beside the gym is a Shade structure with tables and garbage cans for eating and hanging out, next to the structure is a Play structure and a splash pad to let your kids go wild and have fun, the sport's center also includes a volleyball net, a Tennis court, a hockey Rink, and a Skate park, lots of fun, lots to do, 5/5.

Negative experience: Garbage

Negative experience: Great hockey game but the arena had a horrible smell.

Negative experience: Meh, it's okay. Vending machine food is expensive. The drinks are normally sold out, bummer. The coffee vending machine thing didn't work when I used it and just gave me warm water, disappointing. It's okay,

Positive experience: This gym could use a lot of upgrading. The pool is often shut down for maintenance. The weight lifting room is lacking. The machines are limited in selection, there is no a/c, the ceiling is often leaking, etc. There is no running track indoors or outdoors. Also, swimming lesson registration is ridiculous!

Fantastic experience: Good size gym. Could have newer equipment.

Fantastic experience: Great facility with everything you need for sports and recreation. Friendly staff to answer any and all questions, and well kept. Very clean and well maintained.

Negative experience: Pool and Hot Tub... Poor Poor... Cold Tub when it is open.

Negative experience: Far to old and antiquated. Designed for administration rather then the troops who require it.

Positive experience: Relaxed atmosphere with a good selection of machines in the weight room. They have recently added more squat racks and an additional Stair Master.

Negative experience: In the winter, the place is usually very dirty. The pool gets closed for maintenance or other unforeseen circumstances about 20% of the year. The weight room is usually a mess. Fault here lies just as much on the users as on the lack of employee involvement. The squash courts are in pitiful conditions, and on any cold winter day, the temperature in this section of the sport centre drops ridiculously low. This is a problem that comes back year after year. Most JJ Parr employees (front desk, maintenance, and the PSP staff responsible for programming classes) seem to have very little interest in improving the centre in any sort of meaningful way. Exception made here for the pool, which, when it's actually open, is very well kept. The rock climbing wall was also a positive highlight of the centre, but it seems like the willingness to invest in it for maintenance and route setting has dropped quite a bit over recent months.

Fantastic experience: Love taking the family here

Fantastic experience: Great view of the ice from the bleachers

Fantastic experience: Well I work here but excellent facility! Great atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: It's a great place to swim at because of the rope and slide

Positive experience: The centre for sport's

Positive experience: Decent gym but the equipment is old.

Positive experience: A great way to spend family day if you opt to have physical activities because they have great facilities.

Positive experience: Always friendly staff at the front desk with helpful advice & knowledge of the facility and what it has to offer.

Positive experience: It’d be a nicer if the facility was open a little later in the evening

Positive experience: Great during our hockey season. swimming lessons are great, when you can get into them. The pool could us an upgrade.

Positive experience: It’s a great facility with friendly staff and service. The squash courts are great and a number of good programs are run out of the rec centre.

Positive experience: 4 Wings Sports Centre to workout, shoot hoops, swim, ay squash and of course play hockey. Hot tub is rarely open and sometimes the gym is disorganized but over a great place to go to workout and play sports.

Positive experience: Great place for squash but you have to pay for all amenities even if your only using one

Fantastic experience: Great pool facilities.

Fantastic experience: Amazing facility, with almost everything you could need

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Always a great place for family activities

Fantastic experience: family friendly

Fantastic experience: Awesome place, has all kinds of activities to physically train yourself

Fantastic experience: Very nice people

Fantastic experience: Great facility with friendly staff as long as long as your respectful.

Fantastic experience: Where kid's go...

Fantastic experience: Great happy friendly staff, host lots of activities and events.

Fantastic experience: Great place!!!

Positive experience: Has all that I need!

Positive experience: Good

Positive experience: Great modern facility.

Fantastic experience: Great ice

Positive experience: Great hockey rinks. Weight room decent.

Negative experience: The weight room is the worst I've ever seen in any military gym, there is no field house or outdoor track, the pool is usually closed due to maintenance issues.

Fantastic experience: 10/10, would work out again.

Fantastic experience: Great ice

Fantastic experience: I enjoy our school trips to the pool.

Fantastic experience: Great friendly place to swim with the little one

Negative experience: The equipment is old. The machines are too close to the free weights. The weight room is cramped and the obvious is no running track. They need a field house.

Fantastic experience: The pool is wonderful.