The Spot Bouldering Gym

Information about The Spot Bouldering Gym
Opening hours
- Monday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Thursday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Friday: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Saturday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Our comment from FitFit United States about The Spot Bouldering Gym:
The Spot Bouldering Gym is a climber's paradise located in Boulder, Colorado, known for its vibrant community and exceptional route setting. Visitors have praised the gym for its friendly staff and fun atmosphere, making it a welcoming place for both beginners and experienced climbers alike. The range of bouldering problems is diverse and creatively set, ensuring that there's something for everyone. Many climbers enjoy unique features and the historical feel of the gym, which contributes to the overall charm.
Some highlights include:
- Old school vibes combined with modern amenities.
- A full gym area equipped with workout equipment.
- Weekly events, such as trivia nights, which foster a sense of community.
- Access to discounted day passes on specific days.
While the gym is generally well-received, a few visitors have mentioned issues like loose holds and occasional inconsistent grading, which the management is actively seeking to improve. The price point of $25 for a day pass has also received mixed reviews, with some finding it a bit steep compared to other local options.
Overall, The Spot Bouldering Gym remains a highly recommended destination for climbers seeking a quality experience in Boulder. Whether you are looking for a fun place to boulder, connect with others, or improve your skills, The Spot has it all!
The Spot Bouldering Gym: Opinions

Fantastic experience: Fun climbing gym for bouldering! The staff seems friendly and the standard gym on the second floor is fully equipped with workout equipment that you would typically want. Would recommend to anyone!
Thanks for the review Rob! See you again soon.
Fantastic experience: Always a nice fun atmosphere, super amazing trivia nights and nice climbs and training area with everything you could need
Thanks for the review Seb, and see you soon!
For those of you who don't know...Trivia Nights are every Thursday at 7pm at The Spot Denver and The Spot Boulder!
Fantastic experience: Had a great time! The bouldering routes were fun and diverse, I could see my self coming back here again during future vacations. The employee working at the front, Miles, was very kind and helpful. Definitely recommend coming here for a good workout and an enjoyable time.
Thanks for the review Mitchell, and we'll pass along the compliment!
Negative experience: im a member at the spot. This location had 4 loose holds and one loose volume last time I went. I didn't bother even telling them after finding the third loose hold- they clearly do not care enough for me to trust that they fill properly fix it.
Hi Cole, we're passing this feedback along to our routesetting team. The team is working hard to set awesome routes every week, and holds in Boulder need to be carefully hand-tightened, so some spinners slip through the cracks. We'll try to do better, and we do appreciate you reporting the spinners when you see them. Thanks for being a member!
Fantastic experience: This is such a great bouldering gym, honestly wish every one was like this.
Stoked you like the gym Davis! See you again soon!
Negative experience: Passive aggressive employees
I am sorry to hear this Netzach—That's not the culture we strive for here. If you're willing to tell us more about your experience, please reach out to [email protected].
Fantastic experience: Old school vibes. Fantastic route setting on walls designed like real rock. Easily one of the best gyms I’ve been too across the U.S.
Amazing! Thank you for the review Michael. So glad that you had a great time!
Negative experience: “closed spinner” - cost: increased - employees socializing at front desk: 2 - employees maintaining facilities: 0? Why is it easier to tape a sign and leave a route closed for days than just fix the route once a spinner is found? And why are unstable routes so frequently set here? I have never seen this practice anywhere except in the last 6 months at this location. I’d get it if membership were not more expensive than luxurious health clubs, but enough is enough. Please be mindful of your business and respectful of your customers, divas
Thanks for the honest feedback TR—We've passed it along to our desk and routesetting teams. While our desk staff does fix some spinners, many are strange/difficult to fix, and may require ladders or screws, which is why we sometimes leave it to the setters. Our desk team is expected to be ready to help with any concern you may have while you're in the gym, to the extent that they can. We did increase our prices by 2–3 dollars last year, and we think we offer a lot of value for our rates—Access to five gyms, community events, beer on tap, guest passes, discounts on gear, snacks, classes, etc. Totally understand if we're not for you, but we hope you'll give us another chance!
Fantastic experience: I've been climbing at The Spot for a few years and it is definitely the best bouldering gym that I have been to. The route setting is fantastic and all of the staff are super friendly. I highly recommend checking out The Spot if you want try climbing for the first time or if you are a long time climber looking to try a new gym.
Thanks for the review Owen! We're stoked have you around the gym.
Fantastic experience: The wonderful employees of The Spot made my daughter's 11th Birthday so special. Thank you, Saturday crew are thee very best!
Thanks for the review Mia! Glad your daughter had a good time—We'll pass along the feedback to our instructors!
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and climbers, lots of fun routes, cheap shoe rentals, and beer. What more could you ask for?
Appreciate the review Suraj!
Fantastic experience: The Spot - is unreal! Really quality climbs, nice atmosphere, and respectful people in this gym. Pretty rad the history of the gym! They also have the new Dwoods Board, good reflection of their investment into the climbing future. Cheers!
So glad you had a great experience, Antonio! We're pretty stoked on the Woods board. Thanks for coming by!
Positive experience: Good gym, but needs to re set more often
Thanks for the review Talon. While we aim to keep a 6-week rotation on routes, we did fall a bit behind through the competition & holiday seasons. We hope to be quicker moving forward, and hope to see you again soon!
Fantastic experience: The Spot is great. The location in Boulder is the original, i.e. oldest, location and it shows but it's still great. Unlike BRC, The Spot Boulder is bouldering-specific. Other Spot locations have rope climbing and auto-belays but this location does not. There's a gym area upstairs which is a little dingy but it has a rack, weights and overall super solid. Compared to BRC I found the crowd steered younger. Whether that's a positive or negative depends on the vibe you want. No complaints. I've had a membership for over a year and plan on continuing to have one.
Thanks for the review Chase! See you again soon!
Fantastic experience: Awesome places to climb! Very challenging routes but super fun to climb on. I enjoyed projecting a hard boulder here as much as I enjoyed projecting an outdoor boulder. There aren't many volumes or volume settings, granted that the kind of wall they have is not permitting, I would still love to see some more creative way of using volumes around here
Glad you had a good time Huy! Definitely check out Louisville location for some awesome volume problems—The walls here are much more suitable for volume setting!
Fantastic experience: My favorite gym in town. So helpful, friendly, and fun. Sarah and Bella have been awesome. We love starting out day there!
Thanks, John. We hope you'll come back again soon!
Negative experience: I wanted to cancel my monthly recurring membership with them. I messaged them through their website chat messenger, but they never responded. I ended up losing my debit card, cancelled the card, and soon began receiving multiple borderline harassing emails that they could not process the payment and that my account would be frozen and a penalty would be need to be paid to reactivate my account. At that point, I was under the impression my account was closed. I eventually received a new debit card, but The Spot continued trying to charge my old debit card, and Visa eventually pushed the charge through onto my new debit card. I was given no notice from The Spot that my card had been charged and that my account was reactivated. I had been paying for the past 2 months without any type of notice, and I thought my account had been frozen. My friend also had a poor experience trying to close his account. This company has poor business pratices
Hi Austin, we're sorry for the confusion. Our membership team will be reaching out shortly to sort this out. We don't intend to make it difficult to cancel your membership, and we do intend to do right by you. We hope you'll climb with us again!
Fantastic experience: Great staff and a really chill environment.
Thanks, Shane. Glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic experience: I work at a climbing gym over in Burlington, VT, and I feel like a lot of gyms I go to outside of Vermont have kinda inconsistent grading. Some V5s feel like V2s and vice-versa. The spot kills it with all of their boulders. The grades feel right in line with what they’re marked as, and there’s a really cool variety of climbs there! Also the back wall with all of the natural features is super rad, I’ll definitely be recommending this gym to all of the climbing homies!
Thanks for the kinds words, Carter. We'll share this with our setting team!
Fantastic experience: Visited while on travel, and this gym is officially tied in first place for the most fun climbing gym I've ever been to. Every route, regardless of whether or not I knew I was going to flash it, was an absolute blast. The walls and holds were suitably clean (the fastest way to lose stars in a review!), and the pseud-realistic texture of the walls is a unique touch. As a whole, the gym itself is an excellent bang for your buck. In particular the discounted day passes on Fridays. Should I find myself in the area again, I will absolutely be returning.
Thanks for the kind words, Evan! Glad you made the most of our $15 Fridays, too - hope to climb again soon!
Positive experience: This is almost a historic place and rightfully so -- people here are chill but some are strong AF, and staff is very friendly, setting is nice. It's unusual to have the classic taped holds setting, so might take some more effort to read problems and follow the right holds. After my visit, I do think it is a bit overhyped, though. It's evident that the gym is rather old by today's standards. I did not find the hold selection to be very modern, there are almost no volumes. I also couldn't find any telescoping brushes to clean the (very dirty) holds. While the setting is good, I did not find it much better compared to other gyms I've been to.
Hey Lukas, thanks for the kind and constructive words! We'll pass the feedback along to the team and hope to climb with you again soon.
Negative experience: This climbing gym is not a good climbing gym. It was 25 dollars for a day pass which in my opinion is a little pricey for the quality of the gym. The holds do not seem to be cleaned in between resets the staff is friendly but overall one of the most underwhelming gyms I’ve been to.
Hey Kat, thank you for the feedback! Our routesetters consistently wash holds between each set, using a power washer. We hope you'll give us a try again soon, but no hard feelings if not!
Fantastic experience: The Spot Boulder will always have a special place in my heart! My husband and I have made many, many lifelong friends here. Thank you!!
Thanks for climbing with us, Leah!
Negative experience: Attendant named Alex needs a phone etiquette.
Fantastic experience: This is an amazing place to come and boulder. The place is huge and complete with nice restroom facilities and a place to store your gear. And then the walls - they have everything from lower walls, to a cave, and a massive wall that is downright scary to drop from. The route setting is well done with unique holds and appropriate ratings.
Fantastic experience: My favorite climbing gym in the world. Amazing route setting and even better people. Love the old school taped routes and high density of boulders. Can’t say enough good things about the spot!
Glad you're enjoying, Michael! Thanks for the kind words.
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. The walls and features are so unique and pretty. You’ll find every hold you can think of in this gym. The setting here is some of the best you’ll find. Every Boulder in this gym has so much thought put into them which guarantees fun for all levels of climbers. Their music is also always on point, every song is the perfect send music. Staff are very friendly and welcoming. Can’t wait to be back!
Thanks, Vishnu. Hope to climb with you again soon!
Fantastic experience: The spot Boulder was my home gym for nearly 5 years while I was living in Colorado and I miss it terribly. I had another gym down the street and I still drove the 20mins 3-4x days a week to climb here. The variety of routes is unparalleled and the staff is just fantastic, really can't say enough about these folks. I've been to a lot of climbing gyms all over the country and this is one of the last bastions of the old style of taped hold setting. The walls have higher hold density and the routes overlap giving you infinitely more variety in style. On that note: the route setters do an absolutely fantastic job creating interesting and unique climbs for all levels. It's also still home to a lot of the old school van-life climbers and the regulars are really down to earth. It's just got a great overall community. Much love from NC ✌Keep crushin'
Thanks for the kind words, Tristan. Hope to climb with you soon!
Fantastic experience: Service is everything. I appreciate the kind staff and clean space.
Thanks, Eric!
Fantastic experience: Everyone very welcoming and great to be back climbing after an arm injury! Thanks for the first great experience back!
Thanks, Michelle.
Fantastic experience: Super classic gym, features and route setting are great, staff is friendly, great community
Thanks, Jason!
Fantastic experience: Gym made for fun. Great bouldering area and setup. Has a bar.
Thanks, Eduard.
Positive experience: I was a little bummed when I climbed, because the main bouldering island had no climbs set and the majority of the back wall was being reset. The most frustrating aspect for me was the grading system. I’ve seen four grading systems inside bouldering gyms and this is by far the most complicated to understand. The staff were very nice, especially Nathan. Overall, a nice bouldering gym, but could be remodeled and ideally use the V scale grading system.
Sorry to hear this Jesse. We will pass this information along to our routesetting team!
Fantastic experience: This is a great all-bouldering gym in Boulder. The routesetters set some of the most fun and creative bouldering routes you can find in a gym. The environment is relaxed and chill. Great music too
Thanks, Alex! We'll pass those kind words along to our setting crew.
Fantastic experience: I had a great time! First day pass is free which was a pleasant surprise!! Looking forward to coming back, this is definitely the spot!!!
Glad you enjoyed, Andrew! Hope to climb with you again soon.
Fantastic experience: For anyone wondering what the gym looks like. Like I was before I joined. Got everything you need.
Thanks, Aristotle. Glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic experience: Stopped by for a climb and shower on my road trip. Was pleasantly surprised to have a delicious cold beer or two on draft to match the cold shower! Herbal shampoos and body soap. Friendly and helpful people and staff. FREE your first time day pass!!! can't wait to come back through!
Thanks for stopping by, Savannah! Cold beer + cold shower for the win.
Fantastic experience: anyone complaining about the tape doesn’t know what they are talking about. The tape is a BONUS. It gives the routesetters way more freedom when they have access to every hold in their arsenal vs if it’s only one color pffft. More hold variety per route = cooler routes duh. The routes here are some of the coolest of any gym I have been to keep doing what you’re doing!
Thanks, Evan! We'll pass along the kind words to our setting team.
Fantastic experience: Great climbing instructors! Overcame my fear of heights and got a great workout. Not only is it rock climbing gym but also has a bar full of beer!
Woo-hoo! Thanks for sharing, Katie.
Fantastic experience: The facilities are great, and the instructor, John, was super helpful! Learned a lot and will definitely be back when in the area.
Thanks, Emmie! Hope to see you soon.
Fantastic experience: The climbing walls here are perfect for upping your bouldering skills, and the gym is organized so well!
Thanks, Audrey. Glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic experience: Such a great community, we’ve made lifelong friendships here :)
Thanks for sharing, Leah. We're happy to have you!
Positive experience: For $25 per day pass (more than all the other front range gyms, including movement), they could at least buy matching holds and get rid of the tape. I have only been one day since the merge with Evo, and was not impressed. Overly loud, bad music that screamed 23-year old dude + the new high price tag ruined the vibe for me. Pro: definitely not busy!
Thanks for the feedback, Annie. We hope you'll give us another chance soon!
Fantastic experience: Staff is chill, knowledgeable ,and routes are fun not much else to say.
Glad you had fun, Zain. Thanks for stopping by!
Positive experience: Okay gym. Good warmup and weights area. Staff are really nice! However tape design for boulder problems is super clunky, better to stick to the colour coding.
Thanks for the feedback, Tom. We'll pass this suggestion along to our routesetting team!
Fantastic experience: It's great for beginners and experts. There's lots of versatility in the routes. The staff is really nice and helpful and they even have beers on tap for after your climb.
Thanks for stopping by, Stephen!
Fantastic experience: Nice there theres lots pf walls and ways to climb and get to the top.
Thanks, Keanu! Glad you had fun.
Fantastic experience: So good. Back Friday deal until the 29th... $25 for two weeks! Get in and tell them I sent you. Brandon at the front desk was very kind and patient with the kid I dragged in.
Woo! Thanks for joining!
Fantastic experience: Best bouldering gym around. OG.... But that's why it's great!!!
Fantastic experience: Great gym! Beware, the ratings have gotten harder lately
Positive experience: Great spot for some in door boulders, wish there was more rope climbs but thats just preference.
Fantastic experience: One if my favorite climbing gyms. Been coming here for a couple years and never gets old. Excellent problems and great vibes.
Thanks, Travis. We'll keep the vibes coming!
Fantastic experience: Great route setting. There was a great diversity of style and grading. All of the routes were authentically hard, not difficult because they were awkward. Everyone was very nice as well!
Thanks, Rachel! We'll pass that feedback along to our awesome team.
Fantastic experience: Great local bldring gym. Can't beat a beer off the tap when your pumped out.
Thanks, Mikael! A beer is our favorite way to end a session
Negative experience: While we enjoyed the actual gym we found the staff unprofessional. My wife felt harassed by the owners wife. My wife asked a simple questions and then felt embarrassed in front of other climbers.
We're sorry to hear about your experience, John. We hope to create a fun and welcoming climbing community for everyone, and we're working to be better.
Fantastic experience: Staff is great, excellent climbing gym for beginners or experts
Fantastic experience: Super fun bouldering gym! Interesting problems, lots of neat holds, chill atmosphere. Good for fun!
Fantastic experience: Great facility! Love the layout, challenging but fun! Staff was super friendly! Would love to go back!
Positive experience: Friendly staff. Very good route setting.
Fantastic experience: Diverse and interesting setting, great music, and shout out to Austin for being super welcoming!
Positive experience: Overall a decent climbing gym (3 star compared to Seattle Bouldering Project or other top tier gyms). Grades are a little all over the place (5 dot system, but a 3- feels equivalent to a V0, so they only use half of their scale). The walls types are overhang dominated (they have maybe 2 small slab sections that don't get any love from the setters). The setting is its main redeeming quality and has been great so far. Culture-wise, maybe a little bro-y; significantly more male dominated than BRC. S&C is definitely nicer at BRC, but they do have all the essentials.
Fantastic experience: A great bouldering gym with fun problems! Good taste in music being played as well.
Fantastic experience: Friendly people and tons of routes for all ability levels
Fantastic experience: I love the spot. Team ascent forever of course, but the spot is defiantly my favorite gym in Boulder. Psychedelia is a como which absolutely cannot be missed, the tape art is beautiful.
Positive experience: Good climbing with nice route setting. + : wide with different profiles and some very nice problems - : Unfortunately too dense and complex coloured tapes. Some routes are polished
Fantastic experience: Avery beer, 2.50 during happy hour for members. There’s a climbing wall too.
Fantastic experience: Visited on Monday January 6th 2020. The staff was amazing and welcoming, the routes where fun and the atmosphere good. I would Highly recommend it if you are visiting boulder and need a place to climb!
Fantastic experience: My go-to hang out place. Good tunes and people.
Fantastic experience: Great gym, great setting, some really amazing climbers. Gets crowded and chalk-filled in the evenings, stays calm and quiet during the day.
Fantastic experience: Awesome gym - my favorite in boulder
Fantastic experience: Great routes, not very crowded during the day but at night it can get busy as one would expect. Helpful and cheerful staff, nothing to complain about. If you want to start climbing and don't know where to go, here's a good place.
Fantastic experience: Came with family. Great place to bond with kids. My kids loved this place.
Fantastic experience: Still a 10 in my book. Of course, there's always a flat iron or several that one can just go do it by self sustained steam power, LOL. And then ice climb on the offseason, as if! Or with a partner and ropes. Or just bouldering how about what you can of course move Boulders anywhere along the creek path...
Fantastic experience: I love this spot!
Fantastic experience: Had a great time bouldering with my daughter.
Fantastic experience: The classic. Can't go wrong.
Fantastic experience: Best bouldering gym in the world.
Positive experience: Fun place to climb filled with awesome people. May be busy a lot, but that just helps when ya cany figure out a route on your own!
Fantastic experience: Really awesome bouldering spot. Lots of new routes every week or so!
Positive experience: Fun gym. Super dense route setting, unfortunately it is tape instead of monochromatic setting. It was a little funky smell wise buy it is bacause the climbers go hard here! I will be back next trip through CO.
Fantastic experience: Comps are always fun here!! Always super fun.
Positive experience: They are horrible about cancelling membership, and are forcing me to overdraft despite the fact that I haven't been in a month and don't have time to climb. Find a different gym. Edit: changed 1 star to 3. I ended up getting help after plenty of effort.
Fantastic experience: Excellent bouldering for all ages and experience levels. So much fun! Highly recommended!
Fantastic experience: Great place. Varied routes for climber levels, well marked and easy to follow.
Fantastic experience: An extremely friendly environment for climbing. I've been coming for over 2 years and it's my favorite spot in Boulder for bouldering. Kid friendly too.
Fantastic experience: Great place for the young and the ropeless
Fantastic experience: The best bouldering gym!
Fantastic experience: The Spot is an old school, chalky, no frills bouldering gym. The main attraction is the route setting and it is phenomenal.
Positive experience: Bouldering gym, friendly and fun, fair variety of routes... A bit expensive.
Fantastic experience: Boulders best SPOT for bouldering, fantastic setting, tons of boulders, great vibe
Fantastic experience: I really like coming here to challenge my bouldering skills every once in a while and the slack line they have set up is pretty sweet also.
Positive experience: Personally I feel as if they have the best route setters in boulder. I mainly climb outside and the only reason i go to the gym is to get stronger, the spot is definitely the spot to do so!
Fantastic experience: This place has become my second home. The staff is amazing, the vibe is great. People always willing to help with problems and give advise. I highly highly recommend checking it out.
Fantastic experience: The setting is incredible at this gym. The staff are all very helpful and friendly. There are many family friendly events, usually at least once per month. They also have weekly trivia, although the questions are pretty basic from my experience.
Fantastic experience: Very Good Bouldering Gym. Offers nice climbs in every grade.
Fantastic experience: Who knew bouldering could be so fun?
Fantastic experience: hella cool bouldering really fun always some fun problems
Fantastic experience: Fun relaxing place to climb.
Fantastic experience: Relaxed fun climbing experience.
Fantastic experience: Training area upstairs with equipment and many hang boards. Routes go by dot system. Helpful staff and clean facility. Went later at night when it was not so busy, not too sure about other hours of the day.
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