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1353 E. University Drive Tempe, AZ 85281

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  • 2011 | Best Rock Climbing Gym

    If you want to develop fingertips that work like steel hooks, there's no better place to do it than at the Phoenix Rock Gym in Tempe. We're ashamed to say that we've occasionally let months go by without a visit, but we've belonged to PRG since it opened in 1992 and we always find our way back. We love the people who work there, as well as the regulars and the newbies who try to claw their way to the top of the 30-foot walls. When our climbing partners can't go, we make the veins in our... More »

  • 2010 | Best Indoor Rock Climbing

    Why have we belonged to the Phoenix Rock Gym for the past 18 years, you ask It's not just the walls, which are about 30 feet high and covered in fun, gripable, plastic climbing holds. We don't go just for the world-class bouldering rooms and respectable lead-climbing room, either. Nor for the awesome employees, personable customers (most, anyway), and Cheers-like (sans alcohol) ambiance. Of course, it's for all those reasons. The PRG -- which was the first climbing gym to open in the... More »

  • 2009 | Best Indoor Rock Climbing

    Want to reach new heights but you're afraid of coming face-to-face with a rattler, scorpion, or hive of Africanized bees Get inside. The Phoenix Rock Gym offers routes for any level climber. The Beginner's Canyon has straight vertical walls, and those without gear can rent everything they need and climb all day for under $20. More experienced Ape up the walls of the two more technical areas of the gym, Hueco Canyon or Exit Canyon, or boulder 'til your fingers bleed. The gym offers monthly... More »

  • 2008 | Best Rock Gym

    When the rocks outside get too hot to touch, climbers have two choices: Head north or head indoors. For the latter option, you can't do better than the Phoenix Rock Gym (which is actually located in Tempe, near Arizona State University). The place has a good mix of walls for beginners and advanced climbers, and a good mix of people, too. On the same afternoon you can see young couples introducing their 5-year-old to climbing and hear muscle-packed experts chat about drop-knee technique. The... More »

  • 2007 | BEST ROCK GYM

    The PRG is a wonderful community gathering spot that draws people in from every Valley city, so we forgive the intentional inaccuracy of its name. The Tempe gym is a place where we can get a buzz on the climbing, meet friendly people, and hang out for hours, and it's safer than drinking in a bar. It doesn't matter where you're from. It's a place to feel unified. Such a big tent needs a big name, so nothing else but Phoenix would work.There are other gyms in the Valley, but none is as... More »

  • 2006 | BEST PLACE TO CLIMB THE WALLS

    We're all for physical fitness (uh . . . in theory, at least), but the treadmill is so damn boring, and lifting weights is for meatheads. So we're stoked on the workout we can get dangling 30 feet in the air at Phoenix Rock Gym. The first trip to the top of the wall is a little scary, but it feels pretty sweet to look down and realize you actually climbed a wall. The best part about this gym -- which offers 15,000 square feet of climbing surface -- is the fact that no experience is necessa... More »

  • 2005 | BEST PLACE TO CLIMB THE WALLS

    Phoenix Rock Gym's personable owner Paul "Dief" Diefenderfer has been scaling the big buttes around Arizona for 30 years -- he favors Pinnacle Peak and the giant domes of Cochise Stronghold near Tucson -- and he designed his indoor rock gym, now situated just across from the APS power plant on University Drive in Tempe, as a small-scale replica of his favorite canyons, cliffs, crags and crevices. Phoenix Rock Gym was the first indoor climbing facility in the state, and still carries the... More »

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    phoenixnewtimesbestof | Phoenix, AZ | 315 Reviews

    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    When the rocks outside get too hot to touch, climbers have two choices: Head north or head indoors. For the latter option, you can't do better than the Phoenix Rock Gym (which is actually located in Tempe, near Arizona State University). The place has a good mix of walls for beginners and advanced climbers, and a good mix of people, too. On the same afternoon you can see young couples introducing their 5-year-old to climbing and hear muscle-packed experts chat about drop-knee technique. The top-rope walls become crowded on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, but that's the price of success. Thrill-seekers can always move into the lead wall area, where climbers practice life on the "sharp end" and sometimes fall up to 10 to 15 feet on a rope before being caught by a belayer. One of the original rock gyms in Phoenix, if not the first, the PRG recently went through a major renovation in which the owners added a second bouldering area upstairs, this one with more heavily inverted walls. If you want to see human spiders climbing upside down, this is the place. The "old" bouldering area (for the uninitiated, bouldering is the art of traversing relatively low walls without being tethered) received a summer makeover this year, and now sports murals of colorful cartoon sea creatures. If they were to add bunks and a vending machine with beer, we'd probably move in.

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    Miss Lenaiya | Tempe, AZ | 109 Reviews

    | Thu, July 15, 2010

    WOW! this was so much FUN! It costs $16 per person for an all day pass and that includes all the gear as well. since it was our 1st time, they made us watch a short orientation video then a member of the staff explained all the basics of climbing, etc The whole place is all man made rocks with ropes every couple of feet. They have numbered paths which indicate how difficult that particular rock climb is . Seriously, it was TONS of fun! a tip: Take water with you! You'll sweat and get winded and thirsty and it doesn't have any AC only a few fans.

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