Climbing Gyms and Trends 2019 - Climbing Business Journal

Climbing Gyms and Trends 2019 - Ascend Youngstown — Bouldering walls of Ascend Youngstown, which opened in 2019 as Transcend Bouldering Lounge and was acquired by the Ascend brand in the same year. Photo from Ascend Youngstown

The elephant in the room this year is the surprising fact that the 2019 growth rate of the number of commercial climbing gyms in America was the lowest since our annual Gyms & Trends report first began in 2013. The net number of climbing gyms in the US grew by 5.21% in 2019. 34 new gyms opened their doors for climbing last year, the fewest since 2013 and a drop which follows the most successful year on record in 2018 (those 34 gyms are listed separately in the new CBJ Gym List Awards).

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