Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre - Cold Lake, Alberta

John S.

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.

Nosho

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.

Ninja D.

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. ☹

Gerry R.

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!

Joshua G.

In major need of renovations. When i went to the pool you couldn't use the diving board, hot tub, or waterslide. The staff didn't notify me and I ended up paying full price for myself and son and we couldn't really do anything. No activities and nothing for kids his age. Major disappointment.

Mel P.

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!

Troy C.

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

Calm O.

I will speak for the Aquatic Centre. It is a disaster. It has gone to the dogs as a result of lack of funding.
Leisure pool, hot tub, water slide and sauna are not in service.
On top of that every patron to use the deep end of the main swimming pool must pass a competency swim test.
Do us all a favour and just shut this joke of an Aquatic Centre down.

Don’t waste your time and money paying an admission that only gets you a small fraction of use of the facility.