Atlanta Rocks! Intown
Atlanta Rocks! Intown, located 10 minutes north of downtown Atlanta, is the largest indoor gym in the Southeast, with more than 12,000 square feet of professionally-designed, seamless climbing surface. Atlanta Rocks! has approximately 50 top-rope stations, averaging three climbing routes per rope with difficulty levels ranging from beginner (5.4) through advanced (5.13). Atlanta Rocks! has locker rooms, showers and aerobic exercise equipment.
Atlanta Rocks! News/Specials
Atlanta Rocks! will be closed Saturday, July 4, for the Fourth of July holiday. We will reopen on Sunday, July 5, at 12 pm. Have a happy and safe Fourth and climb smart!
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Beginning in February, Atlanta Rocks! introduced a Ladies Climbing Night every Monday night. All women will receive a 25% discount on daily climbing (can not be combined with any other discount).
Atlanta Rocks! Summer Camp schedule is now available here. If you would like to download a '09 Atlanta Rocks! Summer Camp Brochure, go here.
Atlanta Rocks! Intown is pleased to announce that we have renewed our lease for an additional multi-year term!
Rock Climbing – A New National Sport?
Get this, there are a bunch of Frisbee dog (aka Disc Dog) folks over at Skyhoundz who are trying to get Congress to ditch baseball in favor of Frisbee dogging as the new national pastime for the U.S. of A. It’s right there in black and white on the home page of their website. We say, hold on just a minute! Now we aren’t saying that disc dogs aren’t fun to watch and all, but really, if America is going to get a new national sport, it should be rock climbing.
As far as we here at Atlanta Rocks! can tell, no other country counts rock climbing as their national sport. Now, you know that once we start talking about it, those “Frenchies” will jump right in there and try and steal it away from us. They will argue that they have good wine, good food, and a whole bunch of soft white limestone to climb on. We will respond that limestone is all well and good for those with delicate fingers, but you aren’t a real climber until you’re bleeding anyway. And speaking of bleeding, where in France can you find carnivorous granite like we have in Joshua Tree, or ultra-long big wall extravaganzas like El Capitan and Half Dome? Honestly, we’ve got the Gunks, Eldorado Canyon and the Flat Irons for crying out loud. Don’t even get us started about the T-Wall, Looking Glass, The Red River Gorge, and Sand Rock (well, maybe not Sand Rock). Anyway, if you can’t pronounce it, you shouldn’t be climbing it.
So, we rest our case. If any sport should be a National Sport, it should be rock climbing, and if any country should claim it, it’s America.
Now, let’s sing out from the mountain tops and get this done! Email your elected representative and help keep the dogs in the dog parks where they belong.
Media Coverage
Ludacris mentions Atlanta Rocks! in Atlanta's Business Chronicle's Fall '08 Living in Atlanta. View the story [here]. Where (Atlanta) August '08 Magazine featured Atlanta Rocks! in its 30 Things We Love About Atlanta story. View the story [here]. Atlanta Rocks! won Nick's Parents Connect '08 Parents' Picks for Best Day Camp. Go here to view its website. Brides Atlanta '08 Fall/Winter magazine featured Atlanta Rocks! in an article entitled, A Better Bachlor Party. View the story [here]. Fodor's trave guide Around Atlanta With Kids, features Atlanta Rocks! View the story [here]. And, Atlanta Rocks! was featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution's November 19, 2008 My Favorite Workout. View the story [here].
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