Buckner Fitness Center

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, pickleball courts.

Fantastic experience: Good hours, especially for the pool

Positive experience: 100% Military ID Checks

Negative experience: Wings were overcooked

Fantastic experience: Love it

Fantastic experience: This gym is huge, and it has literally everything.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym on base. I love the turf area and the upstairs treadmills.

Positive experience: 24 hours fitness is great and so many accommodations great gym overall

Fantastic experience: Most of the equipment is well maintained, clean and everyone is very helpful

Negative experience: Lifeguard staff are extremely rude and all have different expectations. They make any swimming experience miserable if you have children under 10.

Positive experience: No WiFi. Would benefit all gym members to have wifi - even if it's a $1 per member/per year to have it supplied

Fantastic experience: I go with my daughter she's in the army there's everything sauna and steam room as well as swimming pools basketball courts I enjoyed it.

Fantastic experience: Great area for military members to exercise with a wide range of options

Fantastic experience: Well equipped

Fantastic experience: Nice place to do gym pt.

Positive experience: For a military gym they have a lot of stuff.

Fantastic experience: Huge facility with a lot of useful equipment.

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment for different workout needs.

Fantastic experience: Probably the nicest Base gym I've ever been to

Positive experience: Bring your own headphones. The music here is like a Planet Fitness and kills the vibe

Negative experience: Dont believe their sauna/steam room hours. They close 30 minutes before the actual closing time.

Fantastic experience: A great gym with all the fitness equipment you ever want! I like the indoor track! I really enjoy the river walk!

Fantastic experience: 5 effing stars this place rocks (literally there's a rock wall) 1000/10 employees what a bunch of Gs. And the rquipment is shiny and good. And... there's a pool

Fantastic experience: Hands down awesome gym.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

Fantastic experience: Clean! Loved it.

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym for military members and family!

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need! Large gym with swimming pool, free weights, smith machines, rock wall and more.

Fantastic experience: What a beautiful facility!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Anchorage.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly staff. Plenty of equipment to choose from!

Positive experience: The open swim pool is very very cold. My child had blue lips after 5 minutes

Positive experience: Love the facility but not the limited open swim times. Wish the hot tub was connected to this one.

Negative experience: Loved it until they turned me away! M-F 5-8am is for ACTIVE DUTY ONLY!! this is not on the site...no where posted in the gym..THEY DON'T HAVE A FAMILY ROOM..so the only time I can come is when my husband gets off during homework time,dinner time or bath time and I have 5 kids!! Spouses sacrifice so much career ,constantly having to start over,adjust everywhere we go, raising children alone etc... and we almost ALWAYS get the short end of the stick..Elmendorf gym does not have this policy only buckner fitness smh.

Positive experience: Buckner Fitness Center is hands down the best gym in Alaska, if you can get access to it. From crossfit areas, rock climbing wall, basketball and volleyball court, to swimming pool, hot tub, sauna, and steam rooms; this gym has it all. The only downside is that they are short staffed right now, and really fall short on cleaning the courts to make them playable. Other than that, I highly recommend this gym. ID card is required to gain access.

Positive experience: Can someone explain how you can get your 24 hrs access removed on a Monday at 739 pm when the staff are there to check IDs to make sure people can be there. I think this is a very laughable review process with no review or oversight on how people are removed, just if it suits what the screen is saying then it's gotta be true. Wish there was a place to place a formal complaint bc I know plenty of people that should have easily been exonerated but there isn't a review process, so they get thrown away without a second look. So it's either the staff aren't doing their job, or the system is just there for show.

Fantastic experience: Kids had a great time at the polar pool. The number of lifeguards was phenomenal. I’m appreciative that they make the kids do a swim test to know they have good swimmers in the deep end of the pool. Lots of places for a little kids to play. Price was phenomenal. Highly recommend overall.

Fantastic experience: Blessings

Fantastic experience: So I’ve been to most of the places you can go in the military, around the states and overseas. This is the best gym, that isn’t specific to a SOF unit, I’ve ever been to. It has all the equipment. Every combination of machine. Every bar and specialty bar. Entire rogue line. All the strongman equipment. DBs up to 150 KBs 100+ Curve treadmill Assault bike Traditional cardio A pool Multiple basketball courts Oly bars and eilko plates Wall balls, sand bags, ropes Every cable attachment ever made Lifting platforms Squat racks with and without mirrors Climbing wall It’s kept in good order and staffed most of the day. It has 24 hour badged in access too. This gym wins it. I wish I was up here longer to start building full in depth workouts using all the equipment. Whoever thought of this as an investment was a good leader. Keep your joes motivated to workout. The military can afford one of these on every base and should make that investment with the new ACFT being implemented. They have an entire indoor turf set up to run the acft indoors on a standardized course. You could even do the 2 mile run on the indoor track if you really had to. 10/10

Fantastic experience: We absolutely love going to the Paradise Pool with our kids and friends.

Fantastic experience: Showers were clean and gym was not too busy. Had hair dryers available.

Positive experience: The open swim pool is very very cold. My child had blue lips after 5 minutes

Fantastic experience: They have a clean and well set up gym. There are family areas, an are for crossfit type workouts, a row of squat racks, above there is a running/walking track, pool looks nice and there is also a spin class type room... never used it so not sure of the deets. I really enjoy it. Huge place.

Fantastic experience: Has a pool, sauna, free weights and machines, and cardio machines. Cycling rooms and a smoothie bar. Sometimes crowded during peak times so plan accordingly

Fantastic experience: 10/10 I married a servicemember just for access. (What, BAH and Tricare? Never heard of them until we got married sweety). Well and he wanted to get out of the barracks lol. Edit: no longer have access since he caught me with my best friend Jodie. But I get half his stuff, half his income for life, and half his pension! What a great deal! Oh and when I won my court case (because I hired a fancy lawyer and he didn't "to save money") he had to pay my attorneys fees anyways!

Fantastic experience: Outstanding fitness center. It has everything needed and the equipment layout is well-organized. Staffed with personnel on weekends is a big plus!

Fantastic experience: Had a great work out, facility was clean and not over crowded

Fantastic experience: Lots of equipment, clean and modern, and they have a STEAMROOM!!

Fantastic experience: Phenomenal place to workout. It gets really busy, and it's a little spread out but it has all the equipment you need.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful equipment, large classic Olympic weights, crossfit area, indoor track, climbing wall, and fitness coaches who will build a plan to help reach your goals. Excellent place.

Fantastic experience: This is probably the biggest gym in Anchorage. A huge selection of equipment, an upstairs indoor running track, pool, cardio, and circuit traing rooms. Surprisingly, during this heightened COVID period, it is still open. The number of patrons is limited, the pool requires reservations and the facility has alot of equipment down to provide for social distancing.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym, it has everything you need from an indoor running track to an extensive weight training area. The pool is high quality and the juice bar makes a wide variety of drinks.

Fantastic experience: Pretty good gym. Variety of equipment. The self-powered treadmills are my fave. They keep it clean! Currently, you need to make reservations to use the pool. They have a capacity limit on the GYM as well, so be prepared to wait if you go during peak hours.

Fantastic experience: Very nice indoor pull. Clean and variety of equipment. Professional customer service.

Fantastic experience: Awesome facility, always a great time.

Fantastic experience: It is great place to workout on base. Just make sure you have a 24/7 access and get there before 5 am

Fantastic experience: Indoor track, fitness pool, weights, cardio. What's not to love.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic. Always clean, always helpful, friendly personnel.

Fantastic experience: Love the polar paradise pool & the gym is fantastic!

Fantastic experience: Great gym to go for a swim ‍♂️ with the family

Fantastic experience: It has pool tons of machines and is really clean

Fantastic experience: Love this place, love swiming and reservation,, knowing a lane waiting for me ! Very clean.

Positive experience: Nice facility. Has more than enough for anyone to get a good workout in. Unless you're there during peak hours and it seems like everyone is working in groups of 5 or more. Other than that the equipment is nice. I haven't used the pool or sauna but those are great features as well...so I've heard.

Fantastic experience: My son and I really enjoyed the toddler swim lessons here. They did a great job teaching and really working with the kids, each and every one individually. Learned some great skills for both my son and myself! We will definitely be back for more later on. I have not used Buckner for anything else though.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've ever been. Kudos to the staff, keep up the good work.

Fantastic experience: Love Buckner even though it gets very crowded at times. You definitely need to have a workout plan to save time just in case someone else is on the equipment you want to use.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve been to out of military or civilian. It has everything you can possibly imagine for a gym.

Fantastic experience: Best gym on base, clean, has 24 hour access (limited due to covid at the moment) has a ton of free weights and equipment, track and treadmill upstairs as well as pools saunas and steam rooms

Fantastic experience: The strength and conditioning room is great. The Coach is world class. Love working out here especially now that there is 24/7 access available.

Fantastic experience: It was my 1st time going to the Buckner fitness center today and overall I had an awesome experience. I felt Comfortable. Don't be shy. If you do not have 24/7 access they open exactly at 5:00am so don't show up any sooner then that as you will be waiting.

Fantastic experience: Best gym on base

Fantastic experience: gym!

Fantastic experience: Good but always crowded

Fantastic experience: 65 people max big gym tho

Positive experience: Its cool gym covid sucks

Fantastic experience: 24 hr gym that everything you can want in a gym

Fantastic experience: All the fitness gear you would want and then some

Fantastic experience: Extremely clean and well taken care of. The staff has been wonderful all week and everyone has been very helpful and friendly.

Positive experience: One of the better base gyms I've been to in my 8 years. Plenty of equipment, good space for CrossFit, lots of machines upstairs with an indoor track. And the pool has a hottub

Positive experience: The gym is pretty nice, has a lot of machines to work out on, however I feel it is mostly focused on lifting. Second floor is equipped for cardio, cant say anything about the pool area. Overall I like it, one big downside - it is always packed.

Fantastic experience: This gym is huge. If you have ever been to Smith gym at Benning. Buckner gym puts it to shame. There is a massive crossfit side, 2 pools, stand up tanning beds, awesome free weight section and indoor track.

Fantastic experience: Great place for a workout to rock climbing and a fun pool plus the hot tub.

Fantastic experience: What can I say that you don’t already know, right? Great gym, even greater customer service. I love the 24 hour access, swimming schedule and pool availability. The huge selection of cardio and strength equipment is really nice making it so you don’t have to wait in line to get a workout in. I recently found out that there’s even tanning. I am gonna have to give that a try.

Fantastic experience: Polar paradise is great! Kids need to have passed a swim test for larger pool area, so plan ahead

Fantastic experience: Well it's a gym lol. The set up is weird with the equipments in separate rooms. There's a track upstairs along with other cardio equipments. There's also the pool downstairs.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Has everything you need and more. The swim coach, personal trainers and staff are amassing.

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Get your swole on

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym with a variety of options.

Fantastic experience: Can't beat there Variety of equipment and Activities nowhere in Anchorage

Fantastic experience: Can be better if the hour can be extended on weekends

Fantastic experience: Massive gym really nice and clean.

Fantastic experience: Love the friendly staff and the fact that they are kid friendly

Positive experience: I hope these guys spray down the sauna at the end of the day or I'd say this could be contagious and disgusting.

Positive experience: Excellent. Just wish it had some ropes to climb.

Negative experience: They need to update their hours on here. I am not trying to wait till almost noon to work out on the weekend.

Positive experience: Little crowded and loud But if you want to work out then it is worth it the noise Wish the steam room is opens early

Positive experience: Waaaaay too many meatheads, nice facilities now that they redid it though.

Fantastic experience: Well it's a gym lol. The set up is weird with the equipments in separate rooms. There's a track upstairs along with other cardio equipments. There's also the pool downstairs.