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Gyms and Trends 2024

By Climbing Business Journal - February 9, 2025February 12, 2026

CBJ Gyms & Trends 2024 — The number of climbing gyms in North America rose to over 870 in 2024, driven in large part by the ongoing bouldering boom; bouldering gyms accounted for 73% of the new climbing gym development on the continent last year. (Photo courtesy of Ontario-based RockHaus Climbing; all graphics and charts are by Climbing Business Journal)

At the risk of sounding a bit too general, 2024 could perhaps best be described as somewhat of a mixed bag for the North American climbing gym industry, in retrospect. On one hand, when surveying feedback from industry insiders and crunching CBJ’s Gym Map data, the development of new commercial climbing gyms in 2024 was up from the previous year (2023). Sentiments of new climbing gym developers shared last year largely reflected that upward trend, and many suppliers also looked back on 2024 as a positive year. (Visit CBJ’s Gym List Awards to find out which manufacturers and new gyms led the way from January 2024 to November 2024.)

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Member Exclusives Acquisitions Closed Data Diversity Equity Inclusion Expansions Finance First Gym Gym Projects Innovation Management News Operations Risk Managementmovement centennial rich johnston rise above consulting american alpine club jerad wells tension naomi stevens the climbers crush mardi roberts cbc.ca bouldering gym cbj gym list awards rock gym pro francis larose maverick climbing bolt & revolt scott rennak movement lincoln park 5.life walltopia kristin horowitz the block sender one gym expansion andrew coffey movement gyms jackie hueftle quartzite mack maier veronica baker javier diaz onsite lucas kovalcik movement the hive climbing the b.i.g. initiative bouldering crux climbing center pay what you can muta climbing gyms and trends the gravity vault rose bloc flux training center adamanta lee hansche climbing collective (CO) boulder bear climbing centre kilter board adam koberna john burgman sender one lakewood graniteworks gym bouldering project elevate climbing walls crux climbing center pflugerville rocky mountain outlook ian mcintosh tomo bouldering club climbing wall association expansion health and fitness association momentum climbing ryan studio olympics expansions rock jungle climbing gym wes shih muta vertical world climb pass the blok climbing.com chris ryan tension board 2 market analysis bomber boulders usa climbing babacar daoust-cissé the gravity vault westbury onsite climbing walls joe hardy oso climbing gym central rock gym joe robinson paris olympics us census bureau jose saucedo ep climbing nomad walls american community survey the global climbing initiative mexico movement wriggleyville the pad stone summit tokyo olympics market analysis tools rodrigo alonso kilter ed hardy allison justice gavin heverly jon manz workers united mesa rim lemur canada

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