The Crag Indoor Rock Climbing Gym

This was a cool place and great if you aren’t close to the North side of indy where most rock climbing locations are. Sadly though, this place is closed. Check the website:

I should preface this review by saying I’m not a skilled rock climber. I occasionally climb onto the kitchen counter to reach the tall shelves, but that’s about it. I’ve been to Climb Time Indy in the past, and it’s amazingly user friendly (i.e. idiot proof), which I especially appreciate given my newbie status.
I wouldn’t normally discuss a competitor in a review, but here’s how it goes down at Climb Time — you pick a section of wall to climb up, clip the rope onto your harness via carabiner, and up you go. The rope is anchored to the ground, and your buddy controls the rope tension to allow you to climb up and down comfortably. Super fast and easy process, and being anchored to the ground and locked into your rope gives you a nice feeling of security as you’re scaling crazy tall walls.
At Crag, though, you have to tie knots to secure yourself to the rope, and obviously, if you don’t tie those bad boys correctly, you fall to your death (well maybe not death, but it’d sure hurt). Also, instead of the rope bring anchored to the ground, it’s tied to your climbing partner. That’s one more thing to make sure you’re doing properly and tying correctly. The staff members were quick to offer help with the knots, but it was still nerve wracking trying to make sure we weren’t going to kill ourselves. We ended up spending more time tying knots than actually climbing, which was a major bummer.
I also want to note that we were ticked about the way our Groupon was handled. The wording was misleading about what the Groupon covered, and the chick working the counter admitted that most other Groupon users had come in with the same expectation. If they know it’s misleading, you’d think they’d interpret on the side of the customer, but that wasn’t the case. We ended up paying far more than we were expecting, which especially sucked because we wasted so much time tying those damn knots.
If you’re a novice climber, I’d recommend Climb Time over this place no question. If you’re into tying knots and having a more «authentic experience» (their words, not mine), then maybe try Crag. You won’t be seeing me there, though.

Went with some friends to the Crag to climb some walls for a Friday evening… Honestly didn’t know what to expect but was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is… especially if you are with a group of very competitive friends, as I was!
Though this place seems to be run by teenagers who are constantly playing around and teasing each other and climbing or shall I say ‘bouncing’ off the walls themselves… it was fun to watch them climb and climb well…
We were given our gear, shown what/​how to do it, and given the go ahead to climb whatever we chose… REALLY fun to attempt the challenging walls and see who can get higher!
AND you may think it sounds easy or boring… IF you think so (and aren’t a professional climber) GO TRY IT! NOT as easy as you would think! BUT a whole lot of fun!