Rocky Top Climbing

Fantastic experience: Fun old school bouldering gym, super friendly staff and neat sets

Fantastic experience: Not a big space but the staff are always friendly and the community is fun. Its a climbing gym built by climbers for climbers

Fantastic experience: great facility, the setting was spot on, had to get adjusted to a color based grading system, but it worked nicely with the setting style. accommodating for climbers of all skill levels and a 2016/2024 moon board. Will definitely be coming back/recommending friends!

Fantastic experience: super welcoming, comfy, and cozy.

Fantastic experience: Rocky Top Climbing is an incredible gym for climbers of all levels! The route setting is creative and well-balanced, offering a great mix of challenging problems and fun climbs. The staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and always willing to offer tips or encouragement. Whether you’re a beginner looking to get started or an experienced climber pushing your limits, Rocky Top Climbing is the perfect place to train, meet fellow climbers, and have an amazing time. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: What a great climbing gym! The pictures don’t do it justince. A good sized main bouldering room, a nice traverse wall in the mezzanine, two sections of weight, cardio, and plyo room, and a more horizontal wall area with some hang boards and a moon board. Craig was awesome and the atmosphere was outstanding. Will definitely be back many more times.

Negative experience: Not kid-friendly

Fantastic experience: This is a great bouldering gym. They have a lot of variety with the routes, It's bouldering only (which is great if you're like me and only do bouldering). Everyone was friendly, and they had people of all skill levels, which is great for people new to rock climbing. If you're in the area, definitely check it out!

Fantastic experience: Great gym, lots of wall variety for a relatively small space. High quality route setting. Extra bonus for the steep room and 2024 moon board.

Fantastic experience: Great experience

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to climb. You can get a 10 punch pass to try it out. Employees are very helpful and knowledgeable. There's something called "the bat cave" that's a traverse wall on the second floor, great for kids.

Fantastic experience: Recently got into bouldering and found that the routes are always very rewarding here. Always love going! A great atmosphere for sure

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Fantastic experience: this place is goated. straight up!

Fantastic experience: Nice small gym, locally owned

Fantastic experience: I'm not much of a climber, but I came here with friends a few weeks ago... And I still had a lot of fun here. They do have a lot of options for beginner and intermediate routes (which I appreciated)-- and other types of workout equipment. So it should be a good time for anybody looking for a workout, regardless of your skill level with rock climbing.

Fantastic experience: Big fan. Both elementary age kiddos have a great time during each visit!

Fantastic experience: Great vibes.

Fantastic experience: Fun Climbing Gym and Staff is Great

Fantastic experience: It is a very good climbing gym with a great sense of community!

Fantastic experience: Super fun indoor climbing gym. Lots of different sections to climb. They provide many different sizes of shoes too. Along with chalk.

Positive experience: Need more beginner wall space, but good overall.

Fantastic experience: O ginásio de escalada que eu frequento. Aberto nos anos 90, tem uma vibe old school. Parte dos problemas são renovados toda semana. O único porém é que é um ginásio apenas para Boulder, não tem Top Rope. Há também uma academia com pesos e esteiras.

Fantastic experience: Had a really fun time climbing for the first time! An excellent facility with a really friendly staff. Just a really fun time.

Fantastic experience: Fun + Challenging Gym!

Fantastic experience: I love this place! This is where I first started bouldering! They change the routes on Wednesdays, and never disappoint, ranging from all levels. The people who work here are awesome and very attentive. 100% recommend if you're into or wanting to start bouldering!

Positive experience: Nice little bouldering gym with varied walls and a lot of overhang. Unfortunately, like many gyms, the grades are tough and a bit random, and the setting doesn't favor smaller people.

Fantastic experience: I've been to many climbing gyms before this is by far my favorite. It's 17 dollars per person as well as 3 for shoes. 20 dollars for a day pass is fantastic. The climbs never get old as they change them on a regular basis I strongly recommend this climbing gym

Fantastic experience: Let me start out by saying I am new to bouldering. Very friendly staff. Eager to help and answer questions. Very laid back atmosphere. Everyone is super willing to help and offer tips. It's been a great place to start bouldering! A lot of people are commenting about the size of the gym as a con, but honestly, it's been nice, as I think I would feel more intimidated in a bigger gym.

Fantastic experience: Small gym, but great climbing experience. Nice staff and community, interesting and regular sets.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and fun climbing with a welcoming, non-judgmental community. This is a great place to come and boulder.

Fantastic experience: I'm a fan. Nice to have a place to climb.

Fantastic experience: Great climbing gym in Charlottesville. Friendly staff and good sets. Just bouldering here but there's usually plenty wall to go around unless you catch them on a busy weeknight.

Fantastic experience: Perfect little gym

Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere and cool climbs

Fantastic experience: There was a homeless man who entered in a tizzy and as time went on he overdosed. It was a very scary experience and the staff didn’t really seem to care. Anyways the climbing gym was fun kids loved it and I think the homeless might be in the storage closet

Fantastic experience: Great gym with helpful staff!

Fantastic experience: This is the first place I ever went bouldering, and now climbing is one of my favorite things! People here, both the staff and the other climbers, were very friendly to me as a newcomer and helped me get used to the scary feelings of falling! The climbing problems are always varied and fun challenges. This is a great place to bring new and experienced climbing friends, just be sure to note the busy hours because it can get kind of hectic when classes are going on in the early evening. FOR NEWCOMERS TO CLIMBING: bouldering is climbing short (13ft here) walls with no harness or ropes, but with a very safe and thick foam pad at the bottom to catch you when you fall. Rocky Top is a bouldering gym and does not offer top rope or other climbing except in very specific circumstances - they do have a top rope and a silk hanging from the ceiling, but they’re always pulled to the side and I’ve never seen them in use.

Fantastic experience: Fun gym to climb at with lots of interesting routes. They make a good use of the space.

Fantastic experience: I go here to do rock climbing every once in a while, I'm kind of good at it, it's fun, and you should give it a try.

Fantastic experience: I go here to do rock climbing every once in a while, I'm kind of good at it, it's fun, and you should give it a try.

Fantastic experience: The kids really enjoyed there

Fantastic experience: I came here with some friends I was visiting and it was my first bouldering experience, and I had a ton of fun! I’m not the best at climbing, but there were plenty of beginner climbs that I got to try, and I completed each one! It wasn’t too crowded, but this gym overall had a lot to offer. My friends mainly utilize the climbing walls, but there was also space for workout equipment. I had such a great time and would definitely go climbing again!

Fantastic experience: Great climbing for people of all levels of skill. Also, whoever is on the aux has a bop of a playlist.

Fantastic experience: What a great hidden treasure. Good for all ages, very reasonably priced and super friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Excellent route setting and always a great time.

Fantastic experience: So fun and a great whole body work out for all ages. Clean. Challenging.

Fantastic experience: I went with my 8 year old daughter. It was a blast. There were a lot of places she could climb, especially in the upstairs room. It was great to see her confidence building. It was also a great workout for me.

Positive experience: coming from a bigger city, the climbing gym seemed really small at first. but the staff changes up 1/4 of the gym on a weekly rotation so there are always great courses. evenings are busy but if you have a flexible schedule there are times where it’s just a couple people. the staff are friendly and the community is warm. overall enjoying my experience

Fantastic experience: They are great! Staff are helpful, and they change climbing layout frequently so that regular customers can keep enjoying.

Fantastic experience: The staff here are super nice and the sets are awesome. Check it out!

Fantastic experience: Wonderful, clean space, with friendly supportive climbers!

Fantastic experience: Great climbing and atmosphere!

Fantastic experience: Awesome bouldering gym, support your local gym!

Positive experience: Great climbing gym, change the routes often, friendly staff. Only has bouldering and a small gym, but worth checking out!

Positive experience: It’s all relative and as cville’s only rock gym you can’t be too picky. It’s small and they do ok with what they have. Don’t go in with big expectations and you’ll enjoy the laid back, at times cramped, student heavy atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Very good place. I enjoyed the experience, I would highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, great walls that are constantly redone so you never can get bored, and a great gym attached to it for lifting. Totally fantastic and the price is great.

Fantastic experience: This place is amazing. The staff is very friendly. Our first time he was great in explaining how things work and how to be safe. Great place and they did a great job with following masking and social distancing recommendations.

Fantastic experience: Small, yet fun.

Fantastic experience: This is the best gym I have ever been to. The route setting is topnotch and the staff is always friendly and helpful. Wonderful facilities with everything you could ask for in a bouldering gym.

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym with excellent setting and wide variety of styles! I was impressed with the variety of training equipment for a smaller gym

Fantastic experience: We went here yesterday because my 6 year old daughter has been asking to go rock climbing. After comparing a few places we decided to to here. The staff was incredibly welcoming and kind. They showed us around and explained how things worked. They make a small space really work well here! No space seems wasted. My daughter had a lot of fun climbing and we will definitely visit again.

Fantastic experience: 1st ever visit to a climbing gym. Very impressed with facility and staff. 1q

Fantastic experience: Small, yet fun.

Fantastic experience: Challenging.

Fantastic experience: Great place to everyone who wanna learn or practice the climbing, you will love this place

Fantastic experience: A lot of fun and very supportive atmosphere. I've been told it is "easy" for a climbing place there is a decent range from easy to difficult. There is also a small gym you can use.

Fantastic experience: If you love to climb, this is the place! I had a good time and the staff was really cool. I usually climb for fun, but you'll find all levels of challenge here. A day pass is only $15! And there's a gym too (if that's your thing). Check it out!

Fantastic experience: They have a great bouldering room that is set up to work on your dynamic movements.

Fantastic experience: This place has done some serious renovation work in the last 2-3 years. They've added more climbing space and generally increased the niceness level. It's focused on bouldering because it's just not that tall but there is a good mix of skill ratings on the climbs. There are a few top rope climbs but most people boulder. They've also added some nice programming like after school kid's clubs and adult competitive leagues. It is on the smaller side of climbing gyms I've been to, but it's not the smallest! This gym also has showers and some lockers, some cardio machines and a decent but smallish weight room. I like that they have things like olympic rings and kettle bells and other functional training stuff in addition to more pedestrian weight equipment. It can be a little crowded on a rainy afternoon/evening but it's kind of fun to hang out with the climbing crowd.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic indoor climbing gym. Has a great community.

Positive experience: Great Rock climbing gym. There are a few roped climbs, but most of the gym is boldering: climbing under 15ft high. There are super thick mats to cushion your fall from the limit. Really fun, kid friendly, (for better or worse) happy to host parties.

Positive experience: A great alternative and trending activity to stay fit. I would not recommend this place for children under the age of 10 due to high heights, older people, and difficulty of the rockwall. I would also not recommend older folks for similar reasons. The place is pretty expensive, with a one time pass, rental shoes, and chalkbag being close to $20, 11 time pass being a little over $100 and a monthly membership being $64. So not cheap, but very thrilling, very fun and exciting, and great music to go along with you climbing experience. I cam here with my cousin Max and every time we would climb a wall we would fist bump. It was our first "bonding moment" since we had never truly spent time with each other before. So definitely a great place to experience more than just climbing up a wall. Very friendly staff, and an even more friendly community. I myself was climbing up a difficult wall, and had Max, and three strangers cheering me on. Sure enough I got that fist bump! The cost is worth is, and the 11 time pass never expires, so although Max is all the way in California, he can still come back and climb with me!

Fantastic experience: I started climbing here with zero experience, the staff was super helpful and the people that climb here tend to be friendly and offer help and encouragement to new climbers. They also constantly change the routes to keep it fun and interesting; I'm nearing a year of climbing here, and every week I find something new to work on. I wish I knew of this place sooner during my time in cville.

Fantastic experience: Great climbing experience

Fantastic experience: Its great and super cheap

Fantastic experience: Always have good bouldering, walls are updated regularly with challenges for every skill level.

Positive experience: If you're into rock climbing and you live in or around the Charlottesville area you should visit this place. Excellent facility for training experienced climbers as well as people who want to get into climbing. Also as a bonus they do an excellent kid's birthday party for boys or girls. One thing to note if you call them they are slow to respond but very eager to help

Fantastic experience: Laid back friendly bouldering gym.had some top route problems, but not very long ones.

Fantastic experience: Climbing/bouldering is great exercise. Enjoyed going while visiting my friend.

Fantastic experience: They change the climbing routes often to keep it fun and challenging. Nice people running it.

Fantastic experience: Skrt skrt

Fantastic experience: Had a good time. I don't care for rock climbing but the racquetball is always great fun. Bit over priced for just racquetball though

Fantastic experience: Great place to climb, the staff are really nice and gave me a run down my first time bouldering. They have various difficulties and are always creating new courses. The people who frequent here are friendly and supportive, there's no pressure to be perfect and no judgement if you mess up.

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering!

Positive experience: Great gym with a very welcoming and friendly staff. Awesome bouldering rooms with walls that are regularly changed, set with problems for all skill levels. Small gym with limited top rope possibilities, but the reasonably priced membership rates make it well worth it for any Charlottesville resident trying to get into climbing.

Positive experience: Decent people all around. Not always sure what their policies are and neither are they.

Positive experience: Very cool place,

Positive experience: I climb here regularly, but this is no huge gym for anyone looking to top rope or get in some sport route training. But it's an excellent and growing bouldering gym with challenging and creative route setters. Plus they offer weights, cardio equipment, a single racquetball court. Also offers a small selection of climbing shoes and accessories. Great if you love the small hole in the wall kind of gyms. I'd love to see more kid sized routes for my kids though.

Positive experience: This place is very small with only a couple problems but the staff seems friendly. The top area with the cave/upside down problems was very musty and the mats were kind of gross.

Fantastic experience: Rocky top is rad. The member base is super welcoming and the staff are friendly. The route setting is creative and high quality. The space is small, but they pack into it everything you'd need to either have fun climbing (if climbing's not your regular thing) or to make training progress (if it is).

Fantastic experience: Mainly a bouldering gym but have top ropes if interested. Staff and patrons were all very friendly.