Climbmax Rock Gym

An almost hands free, climb at your own pace, unsupervised environment. Pay by the day not the hour type of place. With great variety of many walls

Dirty with poor route setting(compared to old from what I am told). Used to be a premier gym I attended of the area until new owners took over. My wife purchased me a groupon to finally go back and climb for a day with a friend. The owner asked if I had been there before and my answer was “not since the new ownership”. He pushed the groupon back at me and circled the “ first time only”. I walked out of the gym at this point. Never stepped foot back in. But it sure didn’t look as nice as it was before the transfer.

Major disappointment from an original member.I think I might actually be member 09, like the 9th person to have become a member at Climbmax, right when the original owners opened it. I remember having to enter the gym from the side door, only accessing the second floor, because the first floor hadn't been constructed. Tl;dr - I know the place inside and out from the moment it opened. I also was very close with the original owners and the original setting/building crew. I climbed there religiously for years, made lifelong friends and became a part of the Phoenix climbing community. Climbmax was my home in my early twenties.Fast forward approximately 10 years - I get back into climbing after a long hiatus, climb my face off in Boulder, CO at a fantastic bouldering gym, and when I visit my folks, I want to see how Climbmax is doing. I went during a typically quiet time (mid-day) so saw as many people as I expected to. But I was really dismayed at how run-down the place is. Also, the SPINNING HOLDS! I noticed on my way out the list of loose holds, which, upon reflection, I feel like were probably were the ones I found that day. The floors are in abysmal condition - they ARE the original floors. I know they are because I sat on those floors in 2007. THEY.ARE.THE.SAME.ONES. And they are not holding up. The duct tape can't adhere to the felt surfacing, meaning the tears will hurt you if you land in a way you weren't expecting. I went upstairs and the thermostat read 86 degrees - I was uncomfortably warm while climbing loose or broken holds on oddly set problems.I am very sad for this place. I know how the place changed hands, I know the owner is not a climber, but that does not mean it should have degraded the way it has. The bones are solid. The place badly needs a facelift and new day-to-day management. Someone please step in to save it! This gym was the second generation of Climbmax - can someone revamp it again for it's third life?

The new routes are awesome and challenging! Way to go, the bouldering problems are updated with very cool routes

Fun For All! Great Repel Area. Killer Ascending cave going to upstairs. Fun bouldering puzzles.

I love this rock gym, a little pricy but with a good membership it's a great place to put some work in

What an awkward terrible experience! The Asian man at the front desk who has nothing to say except NO turned us away because one of our guests bought the Groupon the same day. No one was even in the gym! None of my friends or I will be returning. Way to promote business.

Climbmax once held the possibility of being the top climbing gym in Az... but now it looks like a what you would find if you were searching for supplies in a post-apocalyptic former industrial area and happened to open the wrong warehouse, instead finding the remanents of a climbing gym.The place is dusty, dirty, cobwebbed, and has torn floors with inadequate mats (which I guess would help make you a stronger climber as you wouldn't dare take a fall).Overall, I wouldn't spend 30min climbing here. You walk in and say to yourself "Wow, this place COULD be amazing" but it is patently obvious that the gym is not currently owned or operated by anyone who knows a thing about climbing... or cleaning for that matter.Sad to see a place with such potential die a slow, stinky, miserable death.

If you do end up purchasing this on Groupon please read the fine print. It’s only for new Customer’s. I went for the second time and for three people it was triple the price from Groupon. I had a blast the first time I went and wanted to go back but Phoenix Rock Gym will be getting my service from this point on.

What a disgusting experience at this gym. Bought the Groupon. Climbed for about 15 min. Didn’t want to touch ANYTHING in this place. Holds are ancient and filthy. Carpet is an absolute health/safety code violation.There were massive cobwebs everywhere. This place was probably ok when it first opened. Highly doubt it will be open much longer. We were the only people climbing on their supposedly busy evening. Stay very far away.