VITAL Climbing Gym - Brooklyn

We had a birthday here for our adult friend and it was a lot of fun! Liz was a wonderful host and coordinated the surprise perfectly. We had a good time navigating the gym and trying our luck on the different walls. Definitely recommend checking it out.

super positive experience. friendly staff. and despite being extremely busy i felt like i could get in some solid reps at problems. the roof/outdoor is worth checking out. kilter, tension 2, and hangboard area. update: second visit was great! less crowded during weekday daytime. setting here really just hits. still 4/5 stars because I feel like there needs to be more bathrooms/cleaning attention towards bathrooms for the amount of foot traffic.

The Rock Climbing gym is a great experience for everyone. The gym has MANY climbs for people who are new or experienced, with new setups every week (I think), and regular gym equipment. The staff is friendly and the process to sign up is swift and the prices aren’t too steep. There is also an upstairs outdoor area which overlooks the city and in the summer it feels great to climb outside. Overall, it's a great experience and a fun activity you can enjoy on a weekend.

Very nice outdoor/rooftop area with a view of the Empire State Building. Also really huge gym overall. You'll never run out of problems!

This gym is epic. The day I went they had a citizens comp that morning. They had reset 3/4 of the gym with compstyle boulders labeled 1 to about 45. The higher the number the harder the bolder. They had really good quality comp style problems in the v3 to v6 range, which is incredibly rare to find. All of the popular movements and styles were represented. I was able to climb up to about number 30, which felt around v7. The other part of the gym with the more traditional boulders was also excellent. The quality of the route setting in this gym is just about the best I've ever seen in over 50+ gym visits. It's a modern climbing style, not like the stuff you would find out west, but really high quality gym style climbing with the latest and greatest holds, the largest and most exotic assortment of volumes I have ever seen, stacked and inverted and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. There's a rooftop open-air bouldering area which is insane, but I went in November and you could only really climb in the middle of the day. However at night they had a huge fire pit blasting away and you could sit and look at the city. For architecture and amenities this gym was outstanding. Unfortunately the bathrooms were dirty, and the gym seems understaffed. The day pass is $35 but because of the citizens comp I only paid $20. It seems expensive but if you love climbing and have the chance to check out this gym, it'll be a legendary experience.