Bouldering Project

I jumped down from a climb and landed on something hard in the mat and BROKE MY ANKLE. I’ve been climbing for years and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. 10/10 would not recommend.

I would give DC Bouldering zero stars if I could. The women’s sauna is DOWN this week and the manager on-site (Spencer) wants to offer no compensation for annual members. No complementary beverage, snack, or small apparel item was offered when asked for. It was almost as if I was an inconvenience to them when they didn’t even know about the sauna being down in the first place. HORRIBLE. Not renewing membership.

Not a bad place if you want a little of everything. Just came for bouldering and it was disappointing. 30$ entry for a fairly small surface area, around 12-15 climbs per grade, and the setting is not very interesting.

Super friendly staff, consistently clean locker rooms, amazing buddy pass perk (2x month and super easy to bring a friend!). Two main climbing rooms and an awesome cave to climb upside down. Climbing routes change consistently and frequently, (~1.5 - 2weeks or so, rotating routes throughout the gym).

Update: I've seen some improvements here lately. Thanks guys!+++++++++++++++Although I live climbing here, the shift in management from Brooklyn Boulders to Building Project has been a bit of a mess.The main problem might be that the BB staff was so effective. Everything worked as planned, routes were always fresh, problems seen and fixed.BP has had a long time to get things together and have done ok. But it's wildly inconsistent. Caulk today, not tomorrow, broken equipment, 2 months of weird construction site and unfinished projects, seemingly slower turnover with routes, blank walls, and maybe most importantly poor communication. The staff don't know their own policies - kids camp, towels, chalk, safety demos. When there is an issue, like blank walls for a month, an email about a big push to change routes that never materialized, there was no communication about what was going wrong.I like the staff. They are very nice so I don't mean to throw them under the bus. But better management is likely need.

I usually climb at crystal city movement but really love the bouldering here. The routes are very accessible and feel very inclusive, especially for short climbers like myself. You can tell that they have at least one female routesetter on staff. At other bouldering gyms, I always feel like a failure and a bad climber, even though I climb fine outdoors. Really appreciate the creative and accessible routesetting here. They make boulderimg fun!

Staff are rude, there is very little equipment for workouts, and the walls are pretty scarce. To give you an idea of how bad it is, there is a large bulk of gym equipment that they have put inside a group fitness room that is encumbered for usually at least three hours during peak fitness room use, and staff don’t allow you to grab small equipment inside the room, and as far as I know haven’t considered alternatives. There’s never any room to use the meager and often broken equipment during peak hours, you’re going to have to wait, and classes always go late/ there’s no respect for folks waiting to use equipment. I’ve had memberships all over the place in DC at other climbing gyms and regular gyms including earth treks, LA fitness, Lifetime, golds, body smith, elevate, etc. and this is the worst gym I’ve been to. I’ve had time while waiting to use equipment to write this entire review, and have dozens of times, and finally decided to do it. If you can avoid this gym and find another I highly suggest it.

Beautiful climbing center. All levels are welcome, many types of route. Important gym space with a complete equipment. Very nice team…. What else!!! Will definitely come back!!!

Amazing gym. Super helpful staff and good route difficulty and terrain range. Not just for climbing as their gym is pretty nice too.

I was visiting DC for a day and had some time to kill, so tried to give the gym a try. The place is pretty big with super nice staff there are a bunch different zones each one with their own nieche.The staff also super nice and helpful one of them walked me all the way from one end to the other because I was stranded and needed direction.The only thing I am not a huge fan of is the grading which is not numbers but brackets but then again when I told that to my gyms manager he said he was thinking of something simillar since he was tired of people complaining about something being a V5 rather than a V3- and whatnot. so...