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Gyms and Trends 2022

Gyms and Trends Report 2022
Despite a lower net climbing gym growth rate in 2022, there are still plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the industry’s long-term outlook, including the fact that over 40 new climbing gyms―such as Movement Design District (pictured), the largest of these new gyms―opened across North America last year, the tenth consecutive year of 35+ new climbing gym openings on the continent. (Photo courtesy of Movement Climbing, Yoga & Fitness)

“Building anything from scratch is hard,” keynote speaker Kevin Jorgeson told a packed audience inside the Salt Palace Convention Center at the 2022 CWA Summit in Salt Lake City. Jorgeson’s speech had a hopeful tone, but there was no denying that the climbing gym industry was facing some hard challenges; it was rebounding from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was continuing to adapt amid rising inflation and supply chain issues that had plagued industry-related manufacturing for months.

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