The Gravity Vault

First time here with my youngest and his friend. Staff is helpful and super patient. The boys are having a great time. We will be back!

Went for the first time with my girlfriend. The staff was great getting us started and setting us up to really enjoy the experience. We will be back

Love this place! As others have mentioned, Monday’s and Friday’s (if you’re a lady) are best nights to come. Giant place with bouldering and they require a one hour training session before you start. They change up the trails once a month or so. Sometimes, they’ll have events and will recruit you to work a birthday party for a few hours! Season pass is worth it if you plan on going few times a week or if you can’t take advantage of the two for one/​ladies night.

Wonderful climbing Gymb. Kids birthday parties make this a wonderful way to get the little ones interested in climbing. My 10 year old joined the cloning team and it is serious business. Check it out.

Love this place, the instructors were amazing. The wife and I decided to do something fun and this showed up on Unilocal.Can’t wait for our next visit! Wish they were a bit closer to home.

Just had a family outting here. The staff is amazing! So helpful and very patient with my kids. They did such a great job pushing my daughter to climb to the top of the wall. They were very understanding and patient with my non verbal autistic son unlike Chelsea Piers. I would recommend coming here with the whole family! Especially if you have a child with special needs like my son.

Great place for rock climbing beginners!
They have several specials during the week. Monday is buy-​1-​get-​1 free and Friday is ladies night so it’s only $ 9 after 5pm! I recommend taking the belaying class before you get into the business. They’ll teach you how to tie the knot and belay for others.
There are plenty of wall space for climbers. Each color represents different difficult levels. If you come by yourself there is also auto-​belays available!

Just had a small birthday party here. My son brought 4 friends. Kids climbed with Trevor. They had a blast.
This place is organized and clean. Some other birthday parties here at the same time. They did a good job keeping everyone busy.

We’ve been here a few times. My kids age 7 and 8 came here with their girl scout troop. They loved it so much, my older daughter asked to come back for her birthday! The walls are perfect for kids. The staff are very encouraging to the kids and I think that’s awesome!

I initially came as part of Unilocal’s fit club. The instructors were super nice and patient with our group as we learned how to tie the proper knots and the belay method. It was my first time rock climbing so I was a bit hesitant at first but once I was ensured my partner wasn’t going to let me fall to my death, I had an awesome time. I caught on quickly and started to explore some of the harder courses. Rock climbing is a great way to challenge yourself as well as the group you’re with. I will be back for more!

All the employees here are knowledgeable, friendly and outgoing. The facilities are well maintained, there appears to be many routes for all skill levels and safety is a priority. They also provide many ways for people to save money with a different deal every weeknight.
I have a couple of friends who, because of The Gravity Vault, have been very active in climbing, indoors and outdoors. And after experiencing the facilities, I can see why!

I went here yesterday for the first time. It wasn’t only my first time to The Gravity Vault, but my first time rock climbing in general. I took a beginners class. The instructors were awesome. First they taught us how to put on our harnesses, then how to tie knots properly, then how to climb and spot. It was so much fun, I can’t even explain. I’m scared sh*tless of heights, but I climbed to the top of all the walls they had, and it wasn’t scary at all. I felt safe in the equpiment. We also learned all kinds of cool French-​originated rock climbing terms like «Balay» and «GriGri». I’ll be back 100% !!!

Prep the arms for a night of uplifting excitement!
First timers fear not, the well trained staff at Gravity Vault will teach you how to tie your ropes properly and on your own within a brief 30 minute session, then you’re free to climb to your hearts content.
Gravity Vault offers about 50 different wall areas to climb, for beginners up to more advance levels. Don’t get discourage by the walls either because there was a young child, no more than 7 years of age that was scaling the walls like a pro.
Great idea for a unique date place that will cost you less than $ 20 per person and if you go on Monday they have a buy 1 get 1 free deal! Plus studies show that people are more likely to fall for those around them in life & death situations ;)
Went there with a Unilocal group, class was hosted by a young gentleman, Aris, who knew his material without getting caught up in the jargon of climbing. They’re open til 10pm on weekdays, not as late on weekends though. Beginners will probably only want to spend 1.5 to 2.5 hours there, before your arms or hands begin to get sore from lifting yourself, but it’s a great way to challenge yourself or your friends in some exciting competition.
After 3 training classes there too, you’ll be able to come and go as you please and there are a variety of monthly and year deals that can be used at both their locations.

There aren’t too many rock climbing gyms nearby, and this one is mostly fine, so I’ll likely be back. I went on a Saturday, and it wasn’t crowded, and had a good mix of people, including a birthday party for some younger kids. The auto-​belays are a nice feature, and a few lone climbers were using them. The climbs aren’t too tall, but they’re high enough to be a good climb.
My only comment is that the routes seem poorly calibrated. There’s a beginner area with routes that are unrated. This may be necessary since the rated material is so difficult. They use a color coding scheme, rather than annotating routes with YDS ratings (eg. 5.10). I usually climb about 5.9 /​5.10a in northern California (Mission Cliffs, other Touchstone gyms, and Planet Granite), and I’ve climbed elsewhere — in Colorado, for instance. Here I struggled to do some climbs in the lowest color code bracket, which the key said corresponded to «5.8 and lower».
Usually I’m able to at least read easier routes (let’s say 5.9 and lower), and understand what the route setter intended. Here, I wondered if there were missing holds, just looking at some climbs that were rated as easy.
I couldn’t tell if the routes are unusually difficult, or just poorly planned.
[Edit: Updated rating from 3 to 4, since I’m told that east coast gyms with shorter routes often have more difficult climbs, compared to longer west coast routes.]

I haven’t been to many climbing gyms before, but I am happy to say that this place was so welcoming and the people were all so nice to help. For new comers even if you have no idea what you are doing, there are classes you can sign up for prior to coming. Never be shy to ask for help, everyone there is there to have fun, and or experience something new. It was such a work out when you go bouldering. I will definitely recommend it to anyone. Attention girls, Friday nights are ladies nights. they have specials and discounts for entry! Yay!

Couches in the front part is kind of kitschy, but i like lying down like dead man on the mat anyway.
It has more open space to stand around versus some others. They’re meticulous with making sure you know your belay techniques (3 tests) before you can just wander on in on your own.
They have some challenging, but fun walls.
On super hot weather days, midway up the wall you will notice the temperature change as you go up it gets hotter and heavier.
I feel accomplished when completing a climb.
(went back on 7/​28, temperature up there feels more comfy)

This is a great place to get an introduction to climbing, but it’s just as fun for those with a bit more experience. As others have said, the entire staff is super attentive and really helpful.
It’s always clean and bright, and we had a really great time there. We’ll definitely be going back!

Size matters when it comes to climbing gyms. That’s what I used to think before I visited Gravity Vault. At 13,000+ square feet as advertised on its website, this is the smallest climbing gym I have visited so far. However, it has certainly left me with a good impression.
My friends and I decided to take a short trip from our usual stomping ground of BKB and headed out to New Jersey to check out this gym when we were told that the Buy-​One-​Get-​One-​Free deal on day passes would be honored even on this Columbus Day holiday. So instead of the usual $ 18, each of us only had to pay $ 9.
I was initially impressed by the friendly staff who did the belay check. She pointed out to my friend that he was wearing his harness incorrectly and needed to put it over his T-​shirt. She also reminded another friend that she needed to have a double loop for the safety knot on the rope. I thought that the staff’s attention to these details is probably a good reflection of the gym’s commitment to the safety of the climbers.
Did I also mention that it’s perfect for people who enjoy top-​roping? It has over 45 stations and the lack of crowd makes waiting unnecessary. The routes were challenging (with a good number of them on 35-​feet walls) and the grips were neither slippery nor fully covered with chalk dust.
The bouldering area was one of the smaller ones I have seen. However, the routes were more difficult than they seemed and the wall allowed for top-​out for multiple routes rated V3 and above.
The only thing I would recommend to the owner is to put up more of those grading charts around the gym so that visiting climbers can see them more easily and determine the difficulty of the routes.
With a team of friendly staff, a climbing space and a resting area that seem almost dust-​free, and challenging routes, Gravity Vault is definitely a place I wouldn’t mind revisiting.

I went here for my first time bouldering last week. Check their website before you go because there are special deals offered here, such as a «lady’s night» discount.
Prices aren’t bad. I did have to rent shoes to climb, and they are a little thick, which I didn’t really like. My boyfriend didn’t like that they don’t offer shoes for more aggressive climbers (i.e. their shoes are fairly flat).
They have cubbies where you can leave your things, but there are also very spacious locker room where you can change and leave things (bring your own lock!). It doesn’t appear that anyone really uses the locker rooms at all. They are very clean and empty.
For general bouldering, they have a decent number of «paths» that you can take, but for me I found the problem to be that there weren’t as many the «paths» designed for beginners (which is clearly what I am since I don’t even know the lingo). They do have three or four thick mats that can be dragged to where you want to climb if you want additional padding.
For a Wednesday night, it wasn’t overly crowded, though more people did come as it got later (closer to 7−8pm). The people who come here are friendly; though it’s not an overly chatty place, people will sometimes offer to give you pointers, which is nice.
Also, if you ask the front desk, they do have bandaids if needed.
It’s a decent place, I wouldn’t mind coming back.

Cool place, but they don’t let you use your own belaying equipment and some of the ropes are very short, to the point where the belayer needs to climb a couple steps of the course to allow for enough slack for the climber to tie in.
We also found that typical of smaller climbing gyms (though honestly this place wasn’t that small), the courses were more difficult than the posted difficulty. I usually rock a 5.10B or C and I was having trouble with the As here. My girlfriend who does 5.9s was sticking to 5.8s.
Also the courses could be a little more interesting. A lot of the courses were simply straight as an arrow. There was one cool one involving an upside down V (attached to my review), but that’s about it.
Lastly it is hard to move between difficulties as you keep having to return to the sparsely distributed color guides to determine what color your desired difficulty is.
Nothing yet can replace my beloved Mission Cliffs…