The Crag Nashville — Attraction in Nashville-Davidson

This review gets updated every now and then. Nice facility. My one big gripe with all indoor climbing gyms is that they don't let you belay yourself. If you can belay yourself without getting hurt and you're not allowed to do it, it limits the number of climbs you can do. An indoor gym is a place where you can practice things before you climb outside so this sets people up for failure. So took off a star for not being allowed to belay myself, even though I can do it without getting hurt, except for maybe banging into the wall when I fall, which could happen if I was being belayed by someone else anyway. Like any other climbing gym, it's a little micromanaged at times. To be able to test out of belaying, they require you to use the knot they want you to use and the belaying techniques they want you to use, even if there's more than one way to do it. If you want to take a friend and teach them to belay you, they don't allow you to do that. Your friend would need to take a class given by them, which wouldn't be so bad if the classes weren't only at certain times. If someone can take the class any time of the day as long as they have an employee available, that would solve the problem. One person I was climbing with took their belay class and were climbing with me and they were told that they can't belay me unless they test out. Then the same employee came back and said that they were wrong about what they had told my partner and it was OK to belay me. Another person I was climbing with had taken the Lead Climbing class and they were told that they would need to test out before they can do any lead climbs at all. So you're supposed to take the test after taking their class but if you need more practice I don't know how else you would work on it. Would be nice if they can review their policies and have all employees get on the same page. The facility itself is very nice and very clean. For the most part customer service hasn't been hateful like the other gyms in the area and most employees have been professional most of the time. Certain employees were bossy and "assertive" towards me when I first joined. Things have gotten better after being there for a while. I had bought their one year membership on sale for $700 + fee. I started going there hoping that my grip and skills will improve so if that happens I'll be OK. Climbers are usually helpful and I've been able to climb with other people that I had not met before so it's a great place to find climbing partners if you're a loner like me. Biggest climbing gym I've been to so far and is very clean. Recommend you try it for yourself, whether you're new to...

I work out here regularly and have for months. They have a good variety of walls and some bouldering. The routes are changed out regularly. They have 10 autobelays. The routes range from 5.7-5.13. Everything is in good condition. The people who work there are really excellent, helpful, nice, and professional. My only complaint about the routes is that not everything is labeled, so it makes it hard to guess how hard some of them are. Maybe 20-30% are unlabeled.

They have routes with slight inclines, large inclines, a chimney, volumes, all kinds of different holds of course. It’s not the biggest climbing gym but they manage the variety of routes really well.

They have lots of climbing classes. One of their classes, the belay class you’re required to take to be certified to belay there, is just $13 and they do it on Saturdays and can work with you on scheduling. They also have yoga classes that are free if you ha e a membership, but I’ve never attended those so can’t speak to them.

A membership isn’t cheap but if you buy five passes at a time it’s considerably cheaper (assuming you aren’t climbing super often). You just miss out on some of the other benefits of having a membership, which includes having two free guest passes per month to use on friends.

They have a store with chalk, liquid chalk, shoes, harnesses and other gear, energy bars, drinks, etc. Most of their climbing shoes are $140 or so, in that range, whereas you can buy shoes online for half that price. So I didn’t buy my shoes there. They rent shoes and harness for a very affordable price per day so it’s not that big of a deal to just rent for a while to figure out how much you’re into climbing.

The clientele tend to be nice helpful people too. The community is just great.

There is a workout area as well that has benches, rowing machines, kettle bells, dumbbells, ropes, medicine balls, pull up bars, and those fancy wooden thingies that you can hang from to workout your finger grip strength. It’s not an enormous workout area but it’s solid enough.

There’s lots of free cubbies for storing your stuff so you don’t have to pay for a locker unless you want to.

Overall just a great place to workout, a neighborhood gem that I hope...

I went with my family (6 kids, 4 adults - ages 6-34) to experience indoor rock climbing at the Crag for the first time, and I have to say I'm impressed. It was so much fun seeing my little nieces and nephews attempt to scale these vertical playgrounds and cheer for each other when one of them completed a challenge to the top.

The workers were very professional, easy to talk to, and were always happy to assist the kids (and adults) with any issues.

The cost was very reasonable and the facilities were extremely clean. Don't sweat at all if your group are beginners (we all were). We were climbing by ourselves after a short five minute block of instructions. Children under 10 can climb all auto-belay lanes, but require someone aged 10 or over to assist clipping them in. However, only ages 12 and over can do the bouldering (no harnesses). Also, for planning purposes, plan on staying for only 2-3 hours at most if you are with a group of beginners - your arms and fingers fatigue quickly.

They do have an awesome setup with tons of lanes. but only about 10-15 are auto-belayed; meaning that's the only ones for beginners as the device will automatically lower you slowly if you fall off the wall. All the other lanes require a certified belay personnel.

Which leads to my last point. They do tons of camps and training for all ages, and if I lived closer I would definitely take...