The Gravity Vault - Jersey City

Super beautiful place. I love training here. I started really recently and got comfortable climbing here. Absolutely amazing for training. I come here very regularly, Rapheal, Natasha, Katrine, Reina, Sky, Janiya, Isaih, Caroline, and Jason are really friendly people I hope to see them all again. 5 Stars!

It's necessary to differentiate that this gym is more of a training gym than a traditional climbing gym. With that understanding, this place is great for having opened 2-3 weeks ago. It has good setting for the bounty routes, three adjustable boards with one being for comp style climbing, and a gym that has two racks and a good amount of weights.

It's clear these guys are thinking ahead and have a nice common area for self-serve drinks and food. When people realize what's here it could be a cool community.

It's unreasonable to expect more at this time as this gym starts to set up its footprint in the area, but some areas I'm hopeful for improvement over time would be:

1. Heavier dumbbells- the weights area is big enough- it would be nice to have heavier than 50 lbs
2. Raise the ceiling in parts of the weights area- the rest of the gym has high ceilings. Can't really work muscle ups on any pull up bars or explosive pull ups
3. (A big reach, but doable at this location in the future when there's enough traffic) A sauna. The small 3-4 people kind. Post climbing sauna is such good recovery and would completely work with the training center style this place is going for. I'd drop my current gym membership and live here.

Excited to see this place grow. I'll try to be here 3x/week since it's close enough!

Very fun place for a team bonding activity! Instructors Angel and Raph were super friendly and showed us how to safely rock climb (and fall). The routes vary in level of difficulty and there are quite a few options for beginners. Definitely recommend it!

Friendly staff and some fun climbs, but I really wish there was more climbing space. Theres only one wall which is fairly big but it feels like there is a lot of space that should’ve been used for additional climbing space instead. For example, there are 4 kilter/ tension boards where I wish they had only 1 or 2 instead to make more room for walls. Theres another room that could definitely hold more climbing space as well (seemed that it was being used as a kids climbing area although I might be wrong). The fitness area is great but personally I’d rather have more climbing area even if it means a less robust fitness area. In its current state, I probably won’t get a membership since there just aren’t that many climbs but I’ll certainly reconsider if the route-setters change routes frequently or if they build more walls. Has potential but not quite there IMO.

Smaller than expected. Only one wall with two kilter boards on the other side. Mats are much stiffer than other gyms. Staff was super friendly and helpful. Hard to justify a day pass given its size. Free parking was a plus. Hope they replace the bar and add more climbing walls.