Northern Rocks

Fantastic experience: Wir waren an einem Regen Tag im Urlaub in der Halle- wir waren begeistert wie nett wir empfangen und super gut eingewiesen wurden und viele Tipps bekamen. Die Besitzer waren super freundlich, sie haben uns sehr geholfen und es war eine super schöne angenehme Atmosphäre - alle sind willkommen. Sogar die Leihschuhe waren in gutem Zustand, was ich in anderen Hallen so noch nicht hatte :) Danke für den schönen Nachmittag, wir hatten eine tolle Zeit

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering range and great vibe. Got the equipment for proper training but also a range of problems for beginners to experts. Staff are nice and friendly. Can't ask for more.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, great community, excellent staff.

Fantastic experience: My son has just started. Great set up and friendly helpful staff

Fantastic experience: A great time, with a great community. Every time I visit, I am greeted with a warm smile from the staff and a smooth, straightforward sign-in process. The team has always been fantastic. Special mention goes to Bodhi, who makes an excellent cup of coffee and brings a friendly, welcoming presence. Tom is also consistently helpful, responsive, and professional, with a clear and approachable way of explaining things that makes climbing easier to understand and more enjoyable. It feels reassuring to know you are supported by such capable and caring staff. The climbs themselves are always well thought out, scaling for climbers of any skill level. I always find there is plenty to do and many enjoyable climbs to work on. The hangout areas are really nice too. You can sit down on a comfortable couch before or after your workout and chat with your mates in the welcoming Northern Rocks community. Everyone there seems kind, encouraging, and good-spirited, and I have made many great friends over the years. If you are looking for a place to try bouldering, or for a community of great climbers supported by a warm and professional team, I highly recommend Northern Rocks. In my opinion, they are a true staple of Auckland’s North Shore community and always worth a visit.

Fantastic experience: Awesome venue, took a group of kids here and they had a blast

Fantastic experience: Really nice

Fantastic experience: Best climbing gym in Auckland. Community vibes and you never have to climb alone. Creative route setting week after week, while enjoying marvelous coffee. And biggest bonus is having staff like Tom from the front desk who gives you a call when you accidentally leave your shoes or chalk bag behind. Gold!

Fantastic experience: Very nice, not too large bouldering gym. Good and interesting routes. I will definitely visit this place again when I’m in Auckland.

Fantastic experience: Luke is magic

Fantastic experience: Friendly, helpful and knowledgeable and great vibes!

Positive experience: Good place for fun

Fantastic experience: Awesome community, lovely staff, family and dog friendly. Facilities are fantastic and there are challenges for all levels of experience. 10/5 stars. Would highly recommend!

Negative experience: I’m not quite sure about this place. With so few bouldering gyms in Auckland, you really want to support each one, but I’ve had more experiences here that left me feeling off than welcome. I joined the women’s bouldering workshop, and the women running it, along with the other participants, were all lovely! That said, I’d recommend it more for the social side than for engaged learning. It’s very casual, and the gym is too noisy and busy to really focus. The general staff vibe wasn’t great. The first staff member I encountered seemed disinterested and didn’t clearly explain where I needed to go, even after I mentioned it was my first time. Another time, I tried to buy chalk during their 20% off winter sale and was told the discount was for members only, even though their Instagram team later confirmed it was meant to be for everyone. The gym isn’t very clean and a bit smelly, so I usually leave feeling a bit gross. Another thing (which I hate to be a Karen about because I do love animals) is that people sometimes have their dogs with them, running around the gym. While they are cute, it adds to the hygiene concerns. What if someone is allergic, and personally I don’t want to be touching dog hair or smelling dog while I’m trying to climb. If I do keep going, it will be purely out of convenience, but for the price, I’m not convinced it’s worth it.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym and wonderful people. Tom and Tiffany are especially great people and deserve raises. Very hospitable and helpful. The gym has some of the most fun problems I've climbed. Everything is tidy. Some air filtration units (chalk scrubbers) could improve air safety for regulars and employees, though.

Fantastic experience: Love the team here, great prices and amazing climbs. Always changing the climbs too and really awesome vibes.

Fantastic experience: Inclusive, relaxed, supportive community vibe. Challenging climbs, friendly staff, fun, regular events and competitions, expert coaching. Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience: Amazing place, great for the kids, super supportive, highly recommend

Positive experience: What makes this place good is the staff. Tiffany is just that girl! V professional induction/H&S Reply: I'm a Faultline/Hangdog regular in Wellys and the big difference is that their climbs are way grippier, to the point that u dont even need chalk.

Fantastic experience: Lovely atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Great indoor space and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Excellent place. All our kids enjoyed the bouldering experience. I'll have to try myself sometime. Nice friendly dog wandering around, too.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, lovely climbers who want to discuss routes, helpful staff, regular route-changes on the walls too. Yoga studio to warm up and a small gym area too as well as everything you’d expect from a climbing gym including shoe rental

Fantastic experience: kinda slays

Fantastic experience: Awesome bouldering gym with great climbs and wonderful staff!

Fantastic experience: Great place. Nice atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Always great vibe; enough climbing options.

Fantastic experience: 아직 초보여서 쉬운거밖에 못하지만 생각보다 재밌고 좋은거같다

Fantastic experience: Great staff. Good setting, wide range of styles, new blocs, variety of training tools, large.

Fantastic experience: A fantastic facility, passionate and friendly staff (Daniel), some top quality brands - this is the place to be in Auckland if you are a serious climber, or just want to try your hand at it!

Fantastic experience: Very fun place to hang out and has a various courses for beginners and expireinced people

Fantastic experience: Excellent tension board and adjustable tilt spraywall. Friendly, helpful staff. Nice social atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Awesome bouldering gym. Day pass was 23 NZD (about $14 USD only) and I was told I could come for free the next 7 days, too bad it was my last day in Auckland. Excellent vibes, felt super welcome by staff and the people climbing. Lots of fun problems, ratings are in colored ranges. Problems end on the last hold (like in European gyms), shirts off are fine for males (great because it was very hot and I swear a lot), chalk is fine, they said it was actually harder cleaning liquid chalk. They managed to do a lot with the space,. there's even a Yoga room on top, a children's area, and a small fitness box. They have 2 tension boards, campus boards and a lot of boulders. Would def come back here.

Fantastic experience: Tried this first time in life and it's super amazing.

Negative experience: Spent a fair amount of money to get an Uber here to go climbing. Arrived and there was a massive group of children running around the gym. Total chaos. Waited for over 15 minutes for one of the two members of staff to say we could come in but would have to wait a bit longer. Looking at the number of children running uncontrolled around the gym with no children’s area we felt it was too unsafe to Boulder.

Positive experience: Love this place. My only criticism is that it lacks air conditioning so can get pretty humid and hot. Otherwise, a big fan of the routes that get set here!

Positive experience: Good fitness place

Positive experience: Great, challenging facility! The only improvement from my perspective is air in. There was no aircon on very hot summer day I’ve been in

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: 직원들 친절함, 시간 제한 없음. 난이도 별로 다양해서 남녀노소 즐길수있음.

Fantastic experience: Bonne ambiance, top communauté, vois intéressantes.

Fantastic experience: Very good place.

Fantastic experience: Great friendly staff

Positive experience: Bit of a snooze fest

Fantastic experience: Best climbing gym in Auckland

Fantastic experience: Great gym, my happy place.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place with great walls and friendly dogs

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym for kids and adults alike. A perfect progression of difficulties.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and a good range of climbs that are changed regularly. Would recommend!

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym with a wide range of climbs for all abilities. Well-maintained & very popular

Fantastic experience: Very nice boulder :) offers many possibilities to improve climbing skills

Fantastic experience: Great staff, adjustable splash wall and tension board. Campus board is massive with lots of variety

Fantastic experience: The recently set comp problems are top notch and the staff are incredibly friendly?

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, can’t wait for it to be on top logger!

Fantastic experience: Just started bouldering. Very friendly staff and welcoming environment

Fantastic experience: Very good, would recommend, gets quite tiring after a while but definitely would use as my gym if I lived closer

Fantastic experience: Best place for bouldering in auckland. Staff are friendly, good community and is also dog friendly too.

Fantastic experience: Fun place to climb. Bouldering only though.

Fantastic experience: Nice clean bouldering gym. It has a top-out section which is fun and members were friendly.

Fantastic experience: Really nice climbing walls and friendly atmosphere. Fitness (weights) area is a bit small if there’s a crowd, but fine for 2-3.

Fantastic experience: Awesome climbing gym. It has a great atmosphere with helpful staff. It would be nice if they were on TopLogger, but that’s a minor thing

Fantastic experience: Nice friendly vibe for enthusiasts and noobs alike. There's a challenge for every level (except me, since I'm the worlds lamest climber and I was only there to make sure none of our scout group hurt themselves..which would be hard, thanks to the fall safety system). The staff are helpful, attentive, and keep the place very well maintained. If you are one of us outdoor adventure fans you'll no doubt feel right at home here. You'll learn alot from watching others techique. Thanks for having us!

Fantastic experience: Best bouldering gym around. Excellent routes that are regularly re-set. They’re always fun, with a good variation of difficulty and routes that appeal to different climbing styles

Positive experience: Nicely sized old school style gym, the route setting feels like something you're likely to encounter climbing outdoors. Very hot as there is no aircon, and not the greatest selection of holds, however has a nice selection of volumes to keep wall angles interesting and a nice wee training area.

Fantastic experience: This might just be the very best rock climbing (bouldering) gym in Auckland. Awesome routes and general good vibes here. Looking forward to my next visit!

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym for both kids and adults. Might have been a little understaffed when I went. I went during school holidays and it was packed with children/ families and I think the staff were a bit overwhelmed doing inductions and signing people in. Good facilities for university students who wish to study and go for a boulder. There was free wifi, power sockets for computers and a nice area on the second level to study or get some work done. One bit of feedback which may go hand in hand with understaffing, is children especially but also those who are going bouldering for the first time really need to learn the etiquette and this needs to be reinforced to maintain a safe experience. Had a child walk underneath me when I was climbing a hard route, politely corrected them, but I think this needs to be emphasised to parents and children alike during the induction. Regardless of this still thought it was a pretty good gym and didn’t remove a star.

Positive experience: I went to watch my family climbing here. It is not an overly large or overwhelming building. They love it and it caters for all ages and stages. There is a cafe, some gear on sale and some parking outside the building but street parking is difficult during the week.

Fantastic experience: Awesome facility, the best bouldering gym of all I've been to in the world. Really really great deal too since you get a free week of climbing just by visiting once. Great chill vibe and tons of routes!

Positive experience: What an amazing place! My boys had so much fun and their staff were super friendly and informative. Only issue was they charged my 2 year old boy for a Youth price but think that was a simple mistake. Will visit again.

Positive experience: There are very friendly staff and some decent routes. However despite what Google says it was absolutely heaving with people on a Sunday between 10:30-12:30 ( perhaps they should have a limit of people that can enter ?) Sadly the workout area is very small and closed in but they have some nice equipment and a really massive campus board !

Fantastic experience: + Amazing friendly atmosphere + Second to none in rock paths creativity in Auckland + climbing shop and snacks and drinks available on premises + visitor parking + plenty of free street parking around the place - very far away for people from anywhere but Northshore

Fantastic experience: Awesome boulder gym! Routes were too difficult for me (lack of climbing lately and probably chubby from travelling) but i really enjoyed myself nevertheless. Staff is friendly and serves great coffee. Open concept which i like.. Will be back if I'm ever in Auckland again!

Positive experience: We went on weekdays morning it was good since it is not to crowded its like we own the place . Way back home I normally do wall climbing but I could say bouldering is more challenging and fun than wall climbing. So I would definetely be back to conquer some of the wall . The place was clean and tidy, staff are friendly. They have this promotion for new customer that once you have paid you got one week free for admission and could bring a friend, vice versa.

Fantastic experience: Clean and the crew are friendly

Fantastic experience: Great place to take the whole family

Fantastic experience: Small gym but with new facilities. Staffs are friendly

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Not huge but awesome when it's not too busy.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to climb with a good selection of climbs for all levels

Fantastic experience: Fantastic atmosphere, helpful staff. My new favourite Gym

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place. Best gym I’ve ever been to

Fantastic experience: Fantastic bouldering gym, great route setting, spacious even when busy, friendly staff and community

Negative experience: Mentioned on the website it’s kids friendly place and we went there my kids didn’t find anything to do it’s not kids friendly at all it’s good for professional climbers only

Fantastic experience: Love this place, friendly staff, great route setting. Perfect place to get some exercise in and have heaps of fun.

Fantastic experience: I love it here, so friendly and I love that the problems change regularly so there is something new to challenge yourself with. (not too quickly though- still enough time to try and complete them)

Fantastic experience: Great service when buying some shoes - first pair were a half size too small and had a super quick response and new pair in no time at all! Will definitely shop from them again

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering place! Loved that the levels were all well labelled. Definitely recommend especially if you’re a beginner.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and great place

Positive experience: Been here a couple times over a few years but boulder co in Westgate has gotten my vote for Auckland gyms. Climbs here feel more scary then fun, after I scend I never want to do the climb again I’m around v2-3 level and the grading system is either way too hard or too easy. Boulder co has a few more options for these levels as it is a bigger gym hence why I have moved over. To be fair, I like slabs and felt walls here are catered more to the dynamic/taller climber. Maybe also coz the mats aren’t the softest, so I am not keen on doing a super risky jump move at 3m. That being said, this is still neat gym, has a moon board, weight lifting area, small shop, good airflow (although wasnt air conditioned when I went in summer), new and clean. They also dropped the vax pass as soon as it was allowed in April.

Positive experience: Very friendly place with open spaces and a good variety of climbing related facilities. There are no changing rooms which is a bit weird, but ok. The holds seem old and rarely cleaned, the routes are rather mediocre, but the grading feels right.

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym! Visited while traveling from the States and got several hours of good routes in.

Fantastic experience: First time trying indoor climbing and enjoyed it! Paul was great in giving tips and showing us good techniques.

Fantastic experience: Easy fun for a few hours, staff were super nice and the vibe of the place was chill and friendly and respectful. Relaxed and everyone can just have a go. Great variety and place was clean and open. Just wish they had aircon lol.

Fantastic experience: Such a fun time! The staff are friendly and so is everyone else there. There are multiple walls you can climb on with courses at different levels from beginner to expert boulderers. You can hire shoes from them if you don't have your own. They even occasionally provide free apples as snacks! #health

Fantastic experience: Great Bouldering!

Fantastic experience: Great spot!

Fantastic experience: Best boulders in Auckland at the moment

Fantastic experience: Incredibly nice staff

Fantastic experience: How encouraging! What lovely, inspiring folk!

Fantastic experience: Always lovely service, kind people and very clear website. Can't recommend more to anyone interested!!!

Fantastic experience: Its super fun not to expensive and the staff is super friendly had a nice cafe and is really cool