Information about Chetwynd & Area Recreation Centre

4512 N Access Rd
V0C 1J0, Chetwynd
+1250-788-2214

Opening hours

  • sunday: 10h-17h
  • monday: 6:30-20:30
  • tuesday: 6:30-20:30
  • wednesday: 6:30-20:30
  • thursday: 6:30-20:30
  • friday: 6:30-20:30
  • saturday: 10h-17h
Recreation facility

Our comment from FitFit Canada about Chetwynd & Area Recreation Centre:

The Chetwynd & Area Recreation Centre is a fantastic destination that offers a variety of activities for all ages and interests in the midst of a charming small-town atmosphere. Visitors consistently rave about the beautiful facilities, including a well-maintained pool, hot tub, and a rock climbing wall. The centre is also equipped with ample fitness options such as a gym, squash court, and ice arena that caters to sports enthusiasts. Guests have highlighted the amazing dining experience at Don's Diner, where great meals await.

Families particularly appreciate the inclusive environment with options for swimming, skating, and even birthday parties. The facility also boasts art installations, like the impressive chainsaw carvings, which add to its uniqueness. The friendly staff and welcoming atmosphere contribute positively to the overall experience, ensuring that everyone feels at home.

While some users have expressed concerns about the pricing and limited gym space, overall, the feedback reflects a well-loved community hub that is clean, organized, and full of potential for fun, fitness, and relaxation.

Chetwynd & Area Recreation Centre: Opinions

4.2/5 (64 Opinions)
Don Kowal 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Is the place to be all the bases covered. Weight room pool hot tub sauna hockey etc .

Darcy Forster 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: What a great place. Beautiful set up.and Don's dinner has excellent food

Kelly Abram 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Has the best sani dump with easy access and by donation. Sculptures are pretty cool too.

A. Black 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facilities! Great pool, rock wall, cute diner. The gym looked great too. I will definitely come back!

Alex 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Pool water was very nice and they turned on this cool wave thing I really enjoyed it

Ellen Hook 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a birthday party

Allison Gauthier 1 year ago

Negative experience: Was ok

Hanz Fischer 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Ron's Diner in the complex, great breakfast,large portion reasonable price. Highly recommend

Ouma - 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: There’s so many things to do in the Rec Center! They host events, birthday parties, or you could just go there to have some free time. There’s swimming, volleyball, badminton or tennis practice, a hockey rink, and even a gym! A great place to go in your free time.

Jason Doucette 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Don's Diner is amazing!!

Laurie Roberts 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Beautiful clean facility.

Carrie Bergum 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility, wonderful swim instructors.

Denise Shaw 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Loved the chain saw carvings! Finally made it this year to watch, brought grandchildren along, awesome experience for them

James Cairns 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went for the 17th annual chainsaw carving with lots of people there. It was a good time. Very interesting seeing them carve of the figures they do

Teegan Langis 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really old school Rec Centre with much history and lots happening inside. Pool, Hot tub, Squash Court, Walking Track, Punching bag, Curling Rink, Ice Arena, Rock Climbing, Jungle Gym, Fitness Gym and even a Cafe. Pool looks small, but any place with a Hot tub is worth going!

ninjacookie33 2 years ago

Positive experience: Nothing spectacular, but it serves it's purpose

Sara Whitney I 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: So many options for some physical activity. Love the pool and hot tub the most. Admission is more than reasonable for the amenities and atmosphere it offers.

Craig Goulet 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good for a stop in and enjoy ppl places and things

Josh Bedell 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The Chetwynd rec center is amazing for such a small town! The new splash park is an amazing addition, and it's exciting to see the foundations being laid for the new library!

biao chan 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Happy

Liam your beloved 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: amazing! friendly staff, the place is clean, the slide is super fun! great place to hangout, not to far from a gas staion too!

K B 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean, welcoming facility with many fitness options :)

Shale Watson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: For what I saw of the place its very nice.

Adam Chadwick 3 years ago

Positive experience: Place is good

Tamara-Lea Gray 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is typically quiet. It’s a lovely little community gym. Staff is friendly and accommodating. I’d recommend this facility.

Brian Schierer 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean facility. Friendly staff Would like this facility in Vernon

Daniel Boyle 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great place with lots of options

Travis Anderson 4 years ago

Positive experience: Has what u need for a rec center ,just on a smaller scale, covid really making it hard to go enjoy the facilities,but how it has to be,

Rose Schmidt 5 years ago

Positive experience: There is a gym, a pool and hot tub, and hockey arena they turned into a gym for covid. Super friendly people, limit of 10 people in the gym, so go on time or wait for an hour. Over all lively feeling and very clean!

peter gillis 5 years ago

Negative experience: Over priced for the gym big time for what you have to go thru to actually get to work out such as try and get there before their 10 person limit applys while trying to make their two hour time limits and deal with snobby staff Steve the manager.....you can do better

Taylor S 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great family pool

J & M Farrow 5 years ago

Positive experience: We enjoyed an hour in the underused squash court. Nice facility.

Eddie Lui 5 years ago

Positive experience: Swimming, Gym, Skating, Rock Climbing, etc. under one roof

Emms Franks 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean building. Customer service is amazing. Always greeted with a smile. Restaurant is so yummy pool is fun weight room is always clean and sanitized walk track is clean and fun! Love it!

Jennifer McLennan 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Mama G's food is soooooooo good!

Emma Macdonald 5 years ago

Positive experience: Food and rooms are both good

Andrew Munn 5 years ago

Negative experience: Their after hours pass is more like a practical joke than a way to work out when the facility is closed. Different times for weekdays, weekends, stats, and seasons. This all while the facility is unmanned (you use a scan card system) most people who keep this facility functioning work shift work and have very few hours in a day to work out. The backwards and outrageously priced facility is a direct reflection on how the town treats themselves and their residence permanent or not.

Peter N 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great wave pool, water slide, climbing wall and rink.

Avocado Toast 6 years ago

Positive experience: Decent facilities. Not the biggest gym tho and it can get busy when everyone gets off work. Great pool and hot tub

Glennis Bailey 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: We visited the center to see if there was a blood pressure machine to use. The young lady at the front desk was extremely friendly and helpful. She told us we could find a machine at the library and checked to see if they were open as it was Sunday of a long weekend. She left us with a very fine impression of herself and her town.

Julie Melnychuk 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The restaurant was awesome

Vishana Venkatasami 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is well equipped and the pool is always clean and warm.

Brock Eaton 6 years ago

Positive experience: Had to work in the area for awhile. The pool area seems very new. It was a good place for a soak.

Steph Killam 6 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent facility, great people.

Tyler Palmer 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice facility. Lots to offer for a small town.

Marvin McMurray 6 years ago

Positive experience: Seems pretty nice. Clean

mizzfalon 6 years ago

Negative experience: Unfortunately have lived away from Chetwynd for the last fifteen years and upon my return have been very disappointed with the gym wages and hours. Wages are ridiculously over priced, and of course they want more money to get an after hours pass because the regular gym hours suck!! Sounds like a money grab for people trying to be healthy! Which is all wrong in my eyes! After being a member of Planet Fitness for so long and paying 23bucks a month with unlimited tanning salon use, massage chairs, body enhancement machines, and open 24hours guess it's hard to go from that to this! Not to mention no music??? What's up with that? You are a gym!!!! All equipment is old and out dated in a very small tiny room! Praying for a bigger gym or franchise to come along to Chetwynd I'd be first to join!

Jason Schmold 6 years ago

Positive experience: Fun

Sem M 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility offering a wide range of activities- fitness center, ice arena, climbing wall, food, etc. The facility is kept well and it also offers an after hours pass for those who prefer to work out early in the morning/late at night!

Shane Lybbert 6 years ago

Positive experience: Great weight room, good curling and hockey rink. Great climbing wall, nice snack ,burger bar. Indoor walking track

Saaad Nexsus 7 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent

Zabida Chehade 7 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty descent gym here. All the equipment youd need. Maybe some upgrades with equipment would be nice as it seems fairly well used but it's fit for purpose

David S 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice facility

T Mos 7 years ago

Positive experience: Decent all around

Jesse Sanford 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Way more than you would expect

Joe Yousufy 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice setup

Jaime White 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Our favorite swimming experience with our young children

andrew Hoard 8 years ago

Negative experience: Overall staff are very unprofessional. This is a small town pool ran by friends and family and there's a lot of nepotism and cronyism going on. The facility itself is excellent. The women's staff seem to have a lot of issues.

Ashley Henry 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great small town rec center. Small, but well equipped.

Michel Buitendyk 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice center with various rooms and area to serve the Chetwynd district.

Kaleb Myers 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: So much things to do! Always love visiting it here. And the cafe is good too!

Cody Field 9 years ago

Negative experience: would never go again, uneducated staff, mixed with an extremely small gym full of poorly maintained and dated equipment that follows in the steps of other 'fake' gyms that consider any noise made when exercising warrants being asked to be quiet and being told you can't do exercises because they make 'excessive' noise . If you want a good workout here you might as well pick up rocks outside as that will yield better results then attempting to workout in this hole, however if you are looking to workout in a library look no further.

C__ R 11 years ago

Negative experience: 8.25 drop in for a terribly under equipped tiny gym. Save yourself the time and joke of entering this hole in the wall

Terry Cameron 11 years ago

Positive experience: The climbing wall is small, but its great to see. Went bouldering here since I didn't have anyone to belay me. Looking forward to coming back to climb.

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