Climb Nashville

I met my husband at the original Climb Nashville in 2011. This place is definitely near and dear to our hearts. We have loved being part of this awesome climbing community!

I absolutely love Climb Nashville! We have been climbing for just under a year, and we always enjoy our visit. They do a great job setting routes for all skill levels with a nice mix of belay, auto-​belay, and bouldering. This makes it possible to come in on your own or with a group. The staff is very friendly, attentive and helpful. The facility is always very clean and well-​maintained. If there’s an issue with a hold or a route needs a cleanup, they take care of it immediately. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, Climb Nashville is a wonderful place to be!

Awesome gym. Love that they have workout classes in addition to their climbing walls. It’s also great that they change their climbing and bouldering routes often. Absolutely worth the price.

I go here fairly regularly to boulder, and I always enjoy the variety of routes that this place offers. Staff is pretty friendly and the location serves its purpose so there’s not much to complain about, except perhaps the prices. The day passes here are some of the most expensive I’ve seen out of the several climbing gyms I’ve been to in TN, GA, and SC. Climb Nashville does offer some fun social events like Pint Night or bouldering competitions, and those are fun to attend now and again.
Very glad that this place exists in Nashville, and I prefer the West location over the East location (although it does get pretty crowded on weekends).

This place is AWESOME! I have gone like 4 times in two weeks. It’s really not that pricy either. If you want to belay each other you take 1 lesson (like 15 minutes) and you can come in and do it anytime you want. So much freedom to just go about as you please. Love this place! I’m newly addicted to rock climbing

We went to the East location first, before stopping for lunch and then heading over here. It’s nice that the day passes you buy allow you to move between gyms. This is what a typical to me rock climbing gym looks like. Lots and lots of climbing walls. They have a lot of the auto belays. Decent sized bouldering section. I like how there are fitness classes. If you want to use their lockers in the bathrooms be sure to bring your own lock. I plan on coming back here as soon as possible! :)

We have now been to Climb Nashville 3 times with our kids, both under age 11. Each time we have visited, we have been treated so well by every staff member we have encountered. The staff are patient, kind, and extremely thorough when providing instructions and training for all of us. They seem to love where they work and they genuinely care about helping people learn to climb. Our family has had a blast every visit. Go with your family! Even if you don’t want to climb, you can assist your kids or just watch them, too. It is great fun!

Came here for my first time this weekend and had a blast. I came with a member, so my day pass, gear rental, and belay lesson all cost me $ 10. The lesson was short and sweet, and the staff was super nice and informative. They helped me with my harness and explained the different forms of climbing and levels. It was a lot of fun. The place is huge with a ton of options in climbing. I will definitely be coming back and buying a day pass from time to time.

I have been to only two climbing gyms in my life. The first place I went to was pretty cool. I watched my husband climbing. The second one I visited was Climb Nashville. My friend has a membership and brought me along to give it whirl.
I am so glad she did! Because it was AWESOME!
The sheer size of this place is breathtaking! It is a huge building, but the climbing walls are several stories tall. Which is super cool!
I took my belay class and off we went. It was only about a 10 minute demonstration making sure that you understand what to do, and what NOT to do. (Both are very important!)
Since I don’t know much about climbing, I don’t know all of the proper terminology. But there was a section upstairs that had routes for belaying with a partner and for auto-​belaying. This seemed to be the beginner area. Downstairs were the more advances routes, also with auto-​belay and climbing with a partner. Another area that looked super intense for pro’s. There was another section for bouldering.
There is also a gym. They offer yoga classes.
Even though the parking lot is big, there is overflow parking. Whenever I drive by it is always packed. And it should be, because it is just that cool.
You’ve got to go if you are even vaguely interested in rock climbing.
The best part? Because our family did the Nashville Public Library Summer Challenge we won discounted admission! How cool that Climb Nashville participates in that!

I can understand why so many people just give this place 5 stars for the wow effect. Yes it is pretty awesome with a good staff, large amount of climbing options, and combination gym and yoga…
YES… this will offer you hours of endless energetic and clean fun. However… I’m giving this place 4 stars because it hits two of my pet peeves…
The entire place (especially the Yoga place) smells essentially like feet.
ALSO… the staff is super friendly… but they don’t exactly exude the up-​most confidence. At the ones I dealt with. I DON’T mean with the safety side of the house… but every time I go someone doesn’t know how to operate some system or the instruction seems as if the person just started being a professional (despite years of amateur time).

This place is awesome. Brought my 11 and 14 year old and they loved it. The staff was very helpful and friendly.

We went for the first time tonight! Very fun! Helpful staff and not too long of a wait.

Took my 7 year old daughter there today. What a great facility. The staff was very helpful with getting the gear she needed. They went over the whole layout with us. The routes she chose were fun for her. The patrons were also very friendly. You never felt like you were stepping on anyone’s toes. Especially the pros. It was a very friendly community. Needless to say, she loved it and we will be going back a bunch.

I love their hours here. Open at 5am. So cool. I wish my climbing gym at home was open that early. I popped in while on holiday and feigning for a climbing session. The staff and members were friendly and the climbing hit the spot.

I’ve been attending Climb Nashville for about 2 months and couldn’t be more impressed with the staff and class selection. I take the Tues/​Thur 5am class and the occasional 6am class. The instructors have been knowledgeable and innovative at each session. I’m hoping to start climbing more at the new facility.

Climb Nashville is my go-​to place for indoor rock climbing. The staff are always friendly and extremely knowledgeable about the sport of rock climbing, and they’re always willing to help you out with whatever you need.
Climb Nashville is really great about running membership specials throughout the year, especially their annual Mayhem Membership sale which happens every May. There is also always gear that is discounted and on sale at any given time. Climb Nashville has recently expanded and built a new gym in East Nashville and in the next year or so should be opening another West gym. There’s no stopping Climb Nashville from growing.

This is a fantastic gym, not just climbing gym, but gym. The entire facility sports some great walls with various difficulties and is great for newbies and experienced climbers alike. They also offer fitness classes and yoga, so they are pretty much a full-​service gym. If you’re like me, and love to climb occasionally, you can purchase a day pass (complete with equipment rental) for $ 20 that lasts you two visits. Perfect if you want to try the walls out or just come hang with some friends. They also offer packages for memberships that are very reasonably priced. The staff here are extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and care very much about your safety.
Sidenote: Climb Nashville moves to a new and larger facility later this year, so keep a look out for my updated review once I get to try out that new place!

What I loved about Climb Nashville: great walls, good routes, Ok prices, great atmosphere and awesome bouldering routes. My husband, my 6 year old daughter and I LOVE rock climbing and we had a lot of fun!
What I did not like was, first off, when we first checked in we told the staff person my daughters age (6). We paid and went on about our business. THEN, 3 HOURS into our climbing fun, another staff member comes by and tells me my daughter cannot be on the boulder routes (even though she was doing better than some and I was right behind her watching her every move)… but OK, moving on. I then take her back to the wall (auto-​belay), I clip her in and she did her thing. Halfway up the route this chick comes up and tells me my daughter can’t climb! Now I’m pissed, I call my husband over and then she explains to him that my daughter can’t use the auto-​belay (we had to belay her). I’m not mad about them having rules. I was mostly upset that we were not told the rules and regulations BEFORE we paid.
I would love to come back again with my husband, but with their highly strict rules against children bouldering or climbing (with adult supervision), we will most likely not go back (unless we find a babysitter, but that is unlikely).
It would be nice if the staff informed you of their rules and such before you pay.

Clearly, I am a massive fan of Climb Nashville as I am (yet again) giving them the coveted 5 Unilocal star review.
However, I wanted to clarify that this update is based off of their yoga and other class offerings. Don’t count out Climb Nashville if you aren’t into climbing…
I attended the 7am yoga class (free class due to National Yoga Month promotion) and was impressed with the layout of the class as it was on the mezzanine overlooking the entire gym. Very cool. The yoga instructors are brought in by Sanctuary Yoga so you know that you are learning the practice from someone well-​qualified.
While I was waiting for to get started, I watched what appeared to be a circuit class hustle and skyrocket their heart rate. Although, it looked intense… I am totally curious to try it!
Climb Nashville also offers core conditioning, circuit, and kick boxing classes, along with personal training too. Who would have thunk, eh?
Classes are free to Climb Nashville members who opt for a 1 – 12 month membership or can be purchased individually for around $ 15 per class.

I had one dream as a fat child, and that was to climb a tree. My friends when I was a wee little one would scamper up trees like monkeys and I would stand looking at the tree never understanding how this was to be.
I settled back then for climbing very lame trees and getting about as high off the ground as I could safely jump. I put the dream of climbing away fairly early on as I became a very heavy child very quickly after I started biking everywhere — much of my fat was replaced by leg muscle, but no upper body strength and the dream of reaching up and grabbing something and pulling my weight up was gone.
Cut to a bit ago — I discover Climb Nashville… the odd thing is I had a class here years ago in Improv back when this was a bunch of recording studios. I’d forgotten this is where that dream started. I thought this was now where my climbing dream would die again.
See, although I am older and much more fit, I have a random fear of heights… as in, I don’t know why it kicks in some times. I can be looking at a 3 story drop and not thinking much of it but a fall of 10 feet might kick me into alarm mode. I don’t know why this is or what the deal is, but when it hits I usually find my rational mind wondering why in the world my illogical fear response is going mental over something minimal and containable.
I saw a wall of more than 20 feet high and I knew immediately this had all the required factors to set my fear off. I went before my wife did, I held tight, climbed the baby wall, and got about 4 feet from the top and realized I was not particularly afraid, however I wanted to klnow before I went any higher how one got down.
I looked down at the belayer and said I think I would like to come down now. He mentioned that it was just a couple more feet to the top, I said yes, I can see that but I would like to reach the bottom now. He left me down easy, I let my first climb sort of sit and watched Kim Y haul up the wall and go down.
Took a break, and did it again… I think the second one I failed on as I just ran out of juice (was having remnants of a sinus infection working on killing me) — third wall was harder, higher, and I did it. Beat my 4^th and 5^th attempts, try 6 my body let me know I was done — the belayer asked if I wanted to just hang there and rest and I told her that was not going to help.
I stopped, grabbed a drink and rested for what seemed like an eternity… I was actively looking forward to climbing some more. Did another wall, fizzled, did one more and rocked it and by that point I was totally shot.
My fear of heights never really manifested, my arms I discovered were more than adequate to handle me (you do most of your lifting with your legs) on most of the walls I tried. I’m pretty sure some of the walls that come out over you need a lot more arm power, but I actually feel confident that I will tackle them next time.
Maybe that’s because when you let go you don’t fall, you just sort of hang there, and the harnesses you’re in don’t give you the world’s worst wedgie but are in fact very comfy — you can really just hang there if you need to without feeling like you’re on anything worse than say a backyard swing.
This wasn’t exactly the tree climbing I dreamed about as a kid, but it’s satisfied that childhood dream in a different fashion, and I’m so glad I found it… I never would have assumed I would like this in the least. As soon as I’m completely over winter sickness #3 I am back there like it owed me money.