SIU Student Recreation Center

Fantastic experience: SIU swim meet - awesome venue!!

Fantastic experience: Excellent place to get your sweat on.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place that has everything I need and more. The people there are so nice and helpful!

Fantastic experience: Visited SIUC for a short weekend to meet my friends. They are very generous and allowed us to play inside Rec center. It’s huge and has lots of facilities.

Fantastic experience: Plenty of Exercise equipment for students. I love that they have Neutral gender bathrooms as well!

Fantastic experience: The pool is well managed during Covid, with one person to a lane. Helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Good place to workout. Fitness night.

Fantastic experience: Love the Rec center pool and work out facilities!

Fantastic experience: So big and has awesome equipment! Best gym facilities in all of Carbondale and surround areas. On top of that, it is welcoming of the whole community.

Fantastic experience: The SIU Rec Center is a good option if you’re looking for a lot of space. The Rec Center has more equipment and activities than any other gym around here. It’s also much easier to cancel your membership here than it is at Gold’s Gym in Carbondale in my experience.

Fantastic experience: Kind staff, cool temperature, sanitary conditions, plenty of attractive people.

Fantastic experience: Really nice here. Fully outfitted with everything you could possibly need to get fit at any level. The cardio room is amazing. The lower track is my favorite. I do wish the dumbells were more organized in the weight rooms. The mates can be hard to find.

Fantastic experience: Good equipment and facility

Fantastic experience: First Class expertly managed health and fitness facility

Fantastic experience: Nice complex with a variety of things to participate in.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place and best place to be in while studying in SIUC

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place Layout very good.

Fantastic experience: Always a great experience at the rec. If you can't find something to do here there is something wrong. What a great asset to our community. There is some work that needs to be done in the locker room, but that is the only negative.

Fantastic experience: Couldn't find a better gym for the price.

Fantastic experience: I've been going to the rec center since 2010ish. It's a fantastic facility with everything you could ever need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I use the sauna routinely.

Fantastic experience: My daughter is a student at SIUC. I went to her concert and was blown away by the beauty of the building. The music was fantastic. The John Logan's choir sang, amazing, and SIU band played, amazing. I absolutely loved it.

Fantastic experience: Great place to hang out and meet new people !

Fantastic experience: The gym here is a winner, they have so many machines and free weight, one of the best gyms in Carbondale. Two running circuits and several basketball courts and one futsal court. There is always programs to join where you get trained by a trainer. I recommend this place for health and well being by sports and workout.

Fantastic experience: Very organized & convenient. Prices for membership are reasonable. I got my boyfriend a semester pass & he loves it!

Fantastic experience: I love this place! It's everything a rec center should be!

Fantastic experience: Highly recommended, if you find a trainer, that would be better. But I think you should pay or attend team work hours.

Fantastic experience: An excellent place to work out! Great facility and helpful people.

Fantastic experience: I love playing basketball here, I also enjoy all the many workout equipment they have. Overall a great place.

Fantastic experience: love the rec:) my favorites are the Zumba classes! all instructors are so fun and the people there are very fun as well:)))

Fantastic experience: Great facility with everything you might need from a rec

Fantastic experience: I really enjoyed the Community Day.The flyers and health/nutrition materials were really helpful.

Fantastic experience: Larger and superior to private facilities. Olympic-size pool, reasonable pricing with discounts for alumni and emeritus, well-managed and safe.

Fantastic experience: Excellent place! Have a really good structure for a big variety of sports.

Fantastic experience: Great equipments, very spacious and neat.

Fantastic experience: Best gym within 100 miles.

Fantastic experience: Good Gym just needs some minor repairs to the weight room. A little more organization to the weights. But overall the facility is got a lot to offer.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful interior & excellent programs & equipment

Fantastic experience: Ive been trying to get into the habit of going early in the morning before work. It's so nice to walk to the gym in the morning workout then shower before heading to work. I prefer going early in the morning because at night the gym is packed!! I mean it's a great thing, everyone who's there is there for self improvement. The women's locker room is big and has showers and a sauna! I wish they had a nice lounge area with couches and mirrors kind of like the bathrooms at the student center. But it's wonderful the way it is. I wish they had more ellipticals And a food court with healthy food... But I guess that's why I go to the gym now because I eat too much. I love the rec!!

Fantastic experience: Clean, bright , well organized. Great place to work out!

Fantastic experience: There's so many cool things to do!! Also there's good food sold there now.junk food that you'll need as you burn calories.And the faculty is IN POINT!!

Fantastic experience: Very fun and diverse! Great interactions with people. And a great place to show your talents and practice perfection!

Fantastic experience: Amazing facility providing nearly everything you might need. Just wish they had a bit more marital arts resources like a ring or wrestling room. Also they have new hours and close earlier but they're still open nearly all day.

Fantastic experience: The Rec's a very nice facility.

Fantastic experience: Great place to walk work out hit the weights

Fantastic experience: Has all the exercise equipment necessary for anyone to workout.

Fantastic experience: Excellent equipment, large facility, and friendly staff. The hours aren't always the most convenient, but overall this is a wonderful university gym/fitness center.

Fantastic experience: wonderful. I used it as a student and as an alumni. well equipped. Good value for the price.

Fantastic experience: so far I have had a good experience using the rec as a student at SIU. I know some ppl here in their reviews have complaint that it's not fair that the fee is part of their tuition since they don't use it, but don't most universities count Rec stuff in as part of the tuition?

Fantastic experience: They best place in Southern Illinois to workout.

Fantastic experience: I have been coming here for six or seven years. I highly recommend the Rec, the amenities it has for the cost is incredible. I love the variety it has to offer I can swim in the pool one day, play basketball on one of many courts another, racquetball another, lift weights in one of the multiple weight rooms and I could go on. I will continue to come as long as I am in the area. It's a great facility for the community and for students.