Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre

Expérience négative: Dont waste your money here. Smelly, Ridiculous capacity limits, so much people in the pool that you physically couldnt swim, and were constantly getting kicked, hit, etc in the back of the head by everyone else. This forced us to have to leave early. Wont be coming back. Bud miller park in lloyd is well worth the drive. They have a slide, wavepool, lane swim, and often have swimming open almost all day.

Expérience positive: The fitness classes are great!

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

Expérience positive: It’s ok though they have to renovate the bathrooms.

Expérience positive: I dealt with the ladies at the Front Desk. Very polite and helpful. Complex was clean and well-kept. Would be nice to see the upstairs cardio equipment repaired in a more timely fashion. One treadmill has been broken for roughly 5 weeks. All staff have continued to be polite and helpful.

Expérience positive: Decent weight room, friendly staff

Expérience fantastique: Word

Expérience fantastique: Very good facility. Awesome service. With all equipments & well maintained.

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

Expérience négative: 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. ☹

Expérience fantastique: Great place and I have only been to the pool

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

Expérience positive: 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.

Expérience fantastique: 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!

Expérience positive: Has everything. Pool. Rink. Gym. Squash courts. Outdoor gym.

Expérience fantastique: 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.

Expérience négative: Garbage

Expérience négative: Great hockey game but the arena had a horrible smell.

Expérience négative: 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,

Expérience positive: 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!

Expérience fantastique: Good size gym. Could have newer equipment.

Expérience fantastique: 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.

Expérience négative: Pool and Hot Tub... Poor Poor... Cold Tub when it is open.

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

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

Expérience négative: 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.

Expérience fantastique: Love taking the family here

Expérience fantastique: Great view of the ice from the bleachers

Expérience fantastique: Well I work here but excellent facility! Great atmosphere

Expérience fantastique: Great

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

Expérience positive: The centre for sport's

Expérience positive: Decent gym but the equipment is old.

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

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

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

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

Expérience positive: 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.

Expérience positive: 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.

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

Expérience fantastique: Great pool facilities.

Expérience fantastique: Amazing facility, with almost everything you could need

Expérience fantastique: Excellent facility and friendly staff

Expérience fantastique: Always a great place for family activities

Expérience fantastique: family friendly

Expérience fantastique: Awesome place, has all kinds of activities to physically train yourself

Expérience fantastique: Very nice people

Expérience fantastique: Great facility with friendly staff as long as long as your respectful.

Expérience fantastique: Where kid's go...

Expérience fantastique: Great happy friendly staff, host lots of activities and events.

Expérience fantastique: Great place!!!

Expérience positive: Has all that I need!

Expérience positive: Good

Expérience positive: Great modern facility.

Expérience fantastique: Great ice

Expérience positive: Great hockey rinks. Weight room decent.

Expérience négative: 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.

Expérience fantastique: 10/10, would work out again.

Expérience fantastique: Great ice

Expérience fantastique: I enjoy our school trips to the pool.

Expérience fantastique: Great friendly place to swim with the little one

Expérience négative: 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.

Expérience fantastique: The pool is wonderful.