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Cary Street Gym

4.5 ★★★★★ 320 Google reviews · Climbing gym in Richmond, Virginia

Big, clean location featuring treadmills, weights, pools, rock climbing and basketball courts.

Plan your visit

  • Gear rental nearly every climbing gym rents shoes (~$5–8 typical) and chalk; harness rental is often bundled with a ropes pass
  • Waiver always required at climbing gyms — sign it online before you go to skip the front-desk line
  • First timer? bouldering needs zero experience — rent shoes and walk in; staff will point you at the easiest problems
  • Memberships available — worth asking about if you'd climb more than a few times a month
  • Today see hours ·
  • Phone (804) 827-1100
  • Website recsports.vcu.edu

Hours

Monday 5:45 AM–9 PM
Tuesday 5:45 AM–9 PM
Wednesday 5:45 AM–9 PM
Thursday 5:45 AM–9 PM
Friday 5:45 AM–8 PM
Saturday 8 AM–8 PM
Sunday 9 AM–8 PM

Hours can shift for holidays, competitions, and youth-team practice — worth a quick check before a special trip.

What's inside

Walls and programs at Cary Street Gym, confirmed by climbers' own reviews.

🧘 Climbing + Yoga & Fitness 7 mentions

“Spacious, newly renovated gym with tons of court space, exercise rooms, wide variety of machines and cardio equipment and plenty of power racks.”

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What climbers say again and again

The things reviewers bring up again and again across 320 Google reviews — with their own words as proof.

🧼 spotless & clean 4 mentions

“I don’t consistently see people wiping down equipment after they use it, but it’s easy to find the sanitizing wipes and wipe them down yourself.”

🧘 yoga & fitness included 6 mentions

“I only come here for yoga group exercise sessions and the treadmills.”

🤝 welcoming community 3 mentions

From the reviews

I only come here for yoga group exercise sessions and the treadmills. Highly recommend yoga with Haley, Kate, and Jo. Treadmills are ok, and I wish that they could hire more yoga instructors to keep up with the demand.

★★★★☆ — Christine, Mar 2023

Currently joined the membership here, so far so good. This Gym has almost everything you could need in a gym. quality of equipment are great too with kindly staff. Love their swimming pools and sauna.

★★★★☆ — Anthony, Jul 2019

My second home. Membership is included with tuition, but offers other options for those that are not students. I been here six days a week for the past two years and I have no complaints on the equipment or staff, just other gym goers. Parking is a pain, just like all city parking.

★★★★★ — Koi, Feb 2019

The gym and equipment are great. The amount of people who were accepted to VCU that cant read the signs during the pandemic are astonishing though. The gym staff are trying their best to keep things safe. So fellow students.....

★★★★☆ — R, Jan 2021

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Where to find Cary Street Gym

101 S Linden St, Richmond, VA23284

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