Boulder Rock Club

A good gym that has been part of Boulder for many years. Very nice that they have autobelays.

Homegrown hometown gym. No frills just great setting and plenty of routes/auto belays/boulder spots/gym equipment

A fun place to wall climb. It has kids' areas, auto-belay, and bouldering. It's my favorite climbing gym so far.

Great place! Lots' of auto-belays allow climbing with no belay partner. The routes are pretty interesting too.

A really nice place to climb. Routes are well done and diverse. People are friendly and the place has a welcoming vibe.

So rad. Good variety of sport/boulder problems with a lot of auto-belays for solo climbers. Kind staff, and a friendly community of climbers to boot.

My partner Petra has been a member of BRC for fifteen years and climbed there 3-4 times a week. Today she was "banned for life" by the manager Kevin Bains because she was having trouble breathing through her mask with her asthma while climbing and had it under her nose. Several other people in the facility were doing the exact same trying to breath while doing difficult climbs and were not treated this way or even asked to pull their masks up. When she was asked to pull her mask up over her nose she simply stated she could not breathe. That is all she said and was not rude as Kevin is claiming.The email she sent BRC mentioned by Kevin was sent on Aug 25 before the Boulder mandate was even put in effect. At that time, BRC was requiring already for weeks that just their employees wear masks as a business decision not a mandate. Several employees told her they did not want to wear them but were being forced by management so she wrote an email on their behalf - a full week before the county passed the mandate and at a time when almost everyone in every public venue was going maskless.Many other activity oriented centers in Boulder have mask exemptions in place because they and the city reasonably understand that these activities should be in a different class than shopping at Whole Foods. Given that obvious fact and the intensity of the cardiorespiratory system during climbing, BRC should show some understanding to a person briefly wearing a mask under their nose in a big open space and not ban them permanently for doing so as many, many people are doing this now.I will also say that the staff there should spend time on something else besides this type of nonsense. I have climbed there for years and they 100% of the time just camp out behind the front desk and do absolutely nothing to check on safety, patrol the facility, help people, interact with climbing members in any way or provide guidance to anyone other than their quick primary belay check for new people.

The BRC is a Boulder tradition. People of all ages and abilities climb here. The staff is top notch and the route setting team never stops. The BRC also has a weight gym, yoga campus board and auto-belays, helpful for climbing solo. If you haven't climbed here, you're missing out.

I have been a member and supporting this business for over 15 years. It is extremely difficult to climb in a mask and it makes me dizzy and lightheaded because I have exercise induced asthma. There are plenty of businesses in Boulder and other counties who accept medical conditions for each client case by case and some gyms like Easton have approved mask exemptions from Boulder County for their entire facility.In restaurants all over the county people are sitting next to each other without masks at all yet in BRC where everyone is 20 plus feet apart with vaulted ceilings and giant exhaust fans running, they take a stand to permanently trespass a long term member when they see the mask pulled down below the nose. The American Disabilities Act protects individuals from this type of discrimination. There were quite a few people in the facility at the time of this incident with there masks down because the effort of climbing hard makes it almost impossible to wear it. However, I was the only one asked to put my mask up, asked to leave and later received the call from the manager that I was trespassed for not keeping my mask up the entire time in the facility.I did write you an email previously because BRC was requiring employees to wear masks for some time when there was no mandate in place. Several of them told me they did not want to wear them at that time but wanted to keep their jobs and not rock the boat. I sent Kevin the email (Aug 25) on their behalf a full week before the mandate went into effect (sept 1) so your business was not in fact at that time following any rules from the county or state but just your own.BRC is not fun and light hearted as it used to be. It is very uptight now. A couple of employees have made sarcastic rude remarks to me which I brought to the managers attention to no effect.I own one of the most successful and fastest growing businesses in Northern Colorado and have been sending clients to BRC for years. I have never received any appreciation or simple thank you so I stopped referring.I hope BRC in the future is able to rethink their management practices to reflect the needs and wishes of their employees and members.

Awesome gym. Awesome staff. Great routes along with nice weight and stretching areas. Even a place to work if you want to be there all day.