Yes I am also a gym snob.....I love Dowd hands down compared to Uptown, Johnston, and Gateway. If you know when to go you wont have trouble parking, there is a lot of parking behind the building too. The treadmills with the no time cutoff and tvs are my favorite. Last resort if the place is totally full are the treadmills upstairs. There is a huge variety of machines, old school and the newer ones that are easier on your joints. The thing I love about this gym is that the majority of folks that go here are pretty consistently conscious about the machines' cleanliness.
I wish that they would get on the ball and start tweeting - especially when we had the snow/ice delays last week! Grrr!!!