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Gyms and Trends 2024

By Climbing Business Journal - February 9, 2025February 16, 2025

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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