This is the only bouldering facility within the city of Pittsburgh and mostly I appreciate that we have one at all! I do really enjoy going here and go at least once a week. I go mostly in the evenings, where the crowd is primarily a young adult group and you rarely see children.
I've been climbing a bit longer than I had been when I first wrote this review, but I still give it 3 stars. If I could give it a 2.5 I might give it that.
The bourldering room is pretty big and there are lots of routes at a variety of levels, distributed more of less so that each wall has something for everyone. In the evenings it gets uncomfortably crowded, and has gotten worse in the past few years as the sport has seemed to get more and more popular. What gets me the most is that in the 2 years or so that I've been going here, very little has changed. Meanwhile, I've been exploring gyms all over the country that are expanding, have textured rather than plywood walls so you can actually smear, and have incorporated things like yoga and weight rooms into their memberships. Why can't Pittsburgh have that?
I hope one day the climbing wall will step up to try and become one of the more progressive gyms you see on the west coast, or that someone else moves a gym into the city that will up the ante.
In the mean time, this place will do.