New Heights Rock Gym

I hate gyms, but this is an exception.
This is a way to get your body moving, learn a new skill, get into shape and not even feel like it. You look forward to getting stronger, being able to learn a harder route.
When you join, it’s a monthly fee for membership. You can boulder as much as you want but in order to top rope, you need to take a belay class which I 100% agree that it’s necessary. It takes 10 minutes if you’ve climbed before and if not– they are great at showing you the ropes. (Terrible pun)
The routes change often which can be a good things and a bad thing. If you don’t get often enough and are working on a problem, it might not be there when you go back. If you go really often, it helps because you don’t get bored.
I only hate how far out of the way it is. I had a membership for over a year but had to cancel because taking the time to get out there, warm up, climb, and come back took a lot out of my evenings.
**Want to have a fun place for a kids party that’s a little different then video games, have a small group here. Encourage kids to climb when they don’t have fear and it helps them to want to be active.

These guys are awesome! They are really experienced at climbing and have a lot of great tips to help you out. I had so much fun!

Kate K. is incorrect, to belay here you can pass their belay test (if you’ve climbed before) or take their top rope safety course. The course is not a week, it is a one time, 45-​ish minute course that is really good information for new climbers.
I joined a month or so ago after coming once every few years for group events.
Every experience has been great. The staff is super friendly and helpful, the people that come climb are great, and the space is fantastic. Worth it.
If you are looking for something cool to do in Tulsa check this out.

Been climbing here for about a year now off and on. Place never feels crowded. Routes are switched up pretty regularly. Not sure about the post about not being able to top rope without a week long course. If you have experince it takes only 10 mins to show u know how to tie figure eight and how to belay.
Best part: its heated and air conditioned!

Website listed is wrong:
Just thought I’d point it out. It’s

(The «rock» was left out on the Unilocal page for them.)
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Good gym, great community of climbers. I came to New Heights because some people from work suggested it might be fun to try and got hooked fast. I’m not sure how Kate had the experience she described. Like most gyms, New Heights requires you pass a belay test to belay others on the walls. Pretty important when you’ve got someone’s safety in your hands. I didn’t have experience climbing my first visit, but my friends had passed the test, so I could climb the walls, just not belay. It was AWESOME! and I found the staff and regulars at the gym to be incredibly welcoming and generous in sharing advice.
Later, I took their top rope safety course to learn to belay. It was a couple of hours and gave me the information I needed to feel confident to keep a partner safe on the walls. I’m pretty sure that if you have experience belaying, you can ask the staff to test you on belay and skip the course. Call to be sure – staff are really nice people. You may have a bit of a wait if the gym is busy with a kid’s birthday party, but they’ll do their best. Lots of times, the staff would connect a new climber with some regulars so that they could climb, practice belaying, and meet other Tulsa climbers.
New Heights is also a great place to start if you want to climb outside. In the past, they’ve organized some trips to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Arkansas so that new climbers could get some outdoor climbing experience and to connect new folks and more experienced people. Hope they’ll keep doing that, but ask around the gym, and you’re sure to find people who are headed out to climb.
Day passes are not cheap, but if you go and find yourself hooked, the membership is a great deal. It pays for itself if you go more than a few times in a month.
Climbing is a great workout, a great way to relax with something entirely different than your day to day work. It’s a new challenge each time, and I’m grateful to the people I met at New Heights for showing me that. If I were in Tulsa still, I’d definitely go again.
Give it a try!

I’m from Dallas, TX and maybe we do rock climbing differently at gyms, but they told us we could not climb with belays or ropes until we took a week course, learn all the knots, etc at their gym and took a series of tests. We were only visiting for 3 days, so we didn’t have a week for that. In DFW, you just have to sign a waiver and all the ropes are already set up to be belayed with and they just do a 3 min refresher…
So we had to boulder, which we hate. The walls weren’t that great, maybe if you were belaying or lead climbing cause they are tall, but for bouldering it sucked. Too limited.

Its a great gym to climb at. They need to expand though. Its been the same for top rope, for the past 10 years. A few things have changed (more in bouldering). The only thing I have against the gym is the day pass for climbing. I think its a little pricy which probably keeps those who really want to climb, out. However once you learn to climb, you end up with your own gear and can get a membership which is extremely cheap for a climbing gym. The staff is very professional. I have been climbing there off and on for the past 10 years and am glad how it is. I would love an expansion for the top rope area though.

Went here today for my girlfriends birthday and we had a blast. The staff was great and seemed to really care about the customers. It didn’t look like much from the outside but once we got inside we could tell it was going to rock. I will be going back for sure.

This is the first time to go to a bouldering gym. It is a great place for beginners and experienced. The staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. If I was more devoted to climbing I would have a membership, but since I go twice a year it didn’t make since.