history

The Commons represents the strength of the Boise climbing community. Oddly enough, our story begins with the closing, in Spring 2018, of another Boise climbing gym called Urban Ascent. Urban was a small, locally owned gym with an interesting history, but what was most important about Urban was the incredible community that developed there.

When a housing development purchased and closed Urban, a void was left in the climbing community of Boise. The ownership team here at The Commons was deeply involved with Urban, so when hundreds of “Urbanites” asked us to start another gym, we buckled down and The Commons is the result! We offer Boise’s only full service climbing gym with 45 foot tall roped walls, bouldering, yoga, climbing specific training, climbing and fitness classes, fitness area, and most importantly- the same warm and welcoming environment for which Urban Ascent was known.

Why the Commons?

To some the name of a climbing gym should evoke images of cliffs and mountains, but we felt drawn in another direction. When naming The Commons, we wanted to highlight the most important part of our gym- the community of climbers and people who grace our establishment. Our community is the reason we are here, and it represents some of the finest folks you will find; that is why we chose a name that literally means, ”land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community.”