Best indoor rock climbing and bouldering gyms in Hong Kong

Hong Kong offers a bounty of workout classes, including boxing, yoga and even Bollywood dancing. But what do you do when you’ve exhausted yourself of all the options? While rock climbing and bouldering are not new concepts to the city, they offer a unique workout experience, come rain come shine. Here are our favourite climbing gyms in Hong Kong.

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Attic V

Run by rock climbing veterans, Attic V welcomes climbers of all ages to challenge themselves in its spacious location in Wong Chuk Hang. Its facilities include constantly changing bouldering walls of over 100 routes, a training area with the latest climbing systems and a lounge area with shared workspace and flat-screen television. Whether you’re just getting started or are an advanced climber, the prominent colour coding on the gym’s walls makes it easy for you to access your route as you scale new heights.

Attic V, Shop E, G/F, Derrick Industrial Building, 49 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, 3101 2918

GoNature

With a 6,500 square foot space and over 100 routes for rock climbing and bouldering, GoNature is a popular gym for both beginners and pros on the eastern end of Kowloon. The multicoloured playground offers a range of climbing routes and courses for all purposes, from bouldering, lead climbing to even abseiling. It lends its space not only for casual climbing sessions but also for climbing courses, birthday parties, social gatherings, cooperate trainings and many others.

GoNature, Unit C2, G/F, Wing Hing Industrial Building, 14 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, 3563 7156

Hong Kong Climbing Park

One of the newest and largest climbing gyms in the city, Hong Kong Climbing Park encompasses four climbing zones and a dining area for beginners and experts. The gym welcomes climbers of all ages, with equipment specifically designed to fit children. If you’re enthusiastic but have no one to go with, Hong Kong Climbing Park also solves the problem of not having a climbing partner; asides from bouldering and traversing zones for rope-free climbing, it has six auto belays on its top rope walls which eliminates the need for a belayer.

Hong Kong Climbing Park, Level 2, Belair Gardens Shopping Arcade Phase 2, 52 Tai Chung Kiu Road, Sha Tin, 3708 9075

Just Climb

With two locations, one on Hong Kong Island and one in Kowloon, Just Climb makes it easy for you to try your hand at bouldering any time. It has been offering climbing lessons, hosting corporate events and even designing custom climbing walls for clients for almost 10 years now. The indoor climbing gym’s 5,000 square foot space encompasses over 100 bouldering routes of eight levels of difficulty, including 90-degree vertical walls as well as 45-degree walls. Just Climb also offers iPads for you to personalise your route, so you can plan ahead and climb with confidence.

Just Climb, multiple locations including G/F, Prince Industrial Building, 706 Prince Edward Road East, San Po Kong, 3561 7868

The Player Climbing Gym

Returning bigger and better following a full renovation, The Player Climbing Gym in Mei Foo features over 10,000 square feet of space with a wide array of bouldering challenges and a 4.5-metre tall top rope climbing wall. Its main climbing area presents a series of configurations, such as the Tricky Wall, Funny Wall and Ninja Wall to test your skills; whilst its training area aims to help you target specific fitness concerns. Catering for both beginners and more experienced climbers, the gym offers a range of options for individuals, families and groups to work out and have fun together.

The Player Climbing Gym, Shop 6B1, Lai Chi Kok Bay Garden, 272 Lai King Hill Road, Mei Foo, 6380 0112

Verm City

This large rock climbing gym with over 18,000 square feet of wall-to-wall climbing space is conveniently located in Quarry Bay, just steps from the MTR station. Verm City offers many challenges, including bouldering, top roping, sport climbing and a fun new system called Clip N’ Climb. Both adults and children will be busy for hours clambering around its different terrains, which even includes an augmented wall system.

Verm City, 4/F, Kodak House 1, 321 Java Road, Quarry Bay, 2560 8128

YMCA King’s Park Centenary Centre

For climbers who want to take it further, YMCA King’s Park Centenary Centre has the highest rock climbing wall in Hong Kong for you to scale. Measuring 18 meters high and 16 metres wide, YMCA’s climbing area offers more than 300 square meters of terrain with over 15 routes of varying degrees of difficulty. Although the park is busy on weekends, the large scale of the wall means that it can accommodate up to 30 climbers at a time. Remember to bring water – YMCA is outdoors, so best keep yourself refreshed.

YMCA King’s Park Centenary Centre, 22 Gascoigne Road, Yau Ma Tei, 2782 6682