Had a birthday party for my 9 year old and everyone had a blast! Both kid and adult climbers thoroughly enjoyed our time there. There is definitely a good variety of different difficulties. I would highly recommend upper limits

My son completed the 5-day adventure camp (half-day). He had so much fun! The camp “counselors” were so great with the kids and had as much energy as they did. They activities were varied, both with the climbing and during non-climbing portions of the morning. We are looking forward to signing up again in the future!

Love this gym, the staff are fantastic, they are knowledgeable and helpful. I have been to many climbing gyms and the community at upper limits is the best Ive found. everyone at the gym is very supportive of other climbers. The climbs are very well rounded for experienced and new climbers the building is definitely the most unique Ive ever been to! The silos and the wave wall are second to none and I always look forward to spending a day here! Check out the outdoor boulder during the warm months, I cant stop recommending everyone check this place out!

The climbing gym has lots of options like a 110 ft outdoor wall, a few silos and plenty of bouldering options. What it lacks are autobelay walls. There was essentially only one spot since you cannot use the other three that were functional while others are climbing in the adjacent bouldering/lead climbing wall. If youre planning to top rope then I suggest doing the top-rope 101 class so you can belay and have more options for climbing. If not, the outdoor bouldering was a lot of fun and there is plenty to do as long as the weather is nice.

Best place around staff is super awesome to work with and everyone was very friendly even when your fro our of state thank you

We took our Boy scouts to Upper Limits for the Climbing Merit badge.The whole outing was fantastic. The facilities and staff were great.Our Scouts learned a lot and had a great time.

I took the top rope 101 class. Not only did I learn a lot, and how to do things properly, but had a lot of fun too! Everyone was welcoming and chill, but everyone from staff to people working out were looking out for each other. Great sense of community which is great for a newbie like me.

My daughter did a week long camp and she loved it! She really liked having a small group of kids to climb with. The staff did a great job of keeping everyone safe.

Not a clean environment, outdated facility, ownership seems to invest money solely in their newer facilities in ST Louis while they left Bloomington in the dust

Our Boy Scouts troop had an excellent experience at Upper Limits earning the climbing merit badge as well as enjoying the facility during the balance of our stay! The staff was wonderful, especially Lisa, Abby, Evan, and Robyn! Our group prepared ahead of time, studying knots and climbing information, and the instructors built on that and greatly expanded our knowledge skill in helping each boy achieve the merit badge.We hope to return on future excursions!

Upper Limits Rocks! It has quickly climbed to the top of my list of favorite things to do!There is so much variety here and it’s really easy for new climbers to get integrated into the sport. The classes are super easy and helpful. Ben helped us get our waivers in order, answered all our questions, and even demonstrated how the auto-belay works when I was intimidated to trust it to catch me. I had a blast and I would certainly go back.For those who have read to the bottom, you are rewarded with knowledge of Groupon opportunities. I went for super cheap. Check it regularly and you can, too.

This place is FANTASTIC!!! My son has been before and wanted to bring me. WOW!!! I will be coming back and learning more. Climbing kicked my butt!!! Staff was super friendly and helpful! Clean establishment! Had fun the entire time. Fear of heights, GONE!!! Especially looking 👀 down from 30+ feet!

Everyone was great. Thomas was our MB instructor and the scouts were in awe to find out that he was an Eagle Scout. He was great with the scouts!

My boy scout troop went here to get our climbing merit badge. I had a fun time. All of the employees were very friendly and I would recommend going there. I would love to be able to go again. Thanks for a fun time.

I took the Rock Wall 101 class with Allie. Apparently it was her first time teaching the course, but there was no way of knowing. She was SO professional while being SO warm and welcoming. Allie taught me the basic necessities, while sharing tips and tricks of a professional. She was extremely patient and made sure I was comfortable and confident with everything she was teaching me. It completely relieved the pressure I was feeling coming in. This was such a great experience for me and I would recommend any aspiring climber to take this course with Allie!

I had an excellent experience at Upper Limits. I signed up for a class, and in addition to the instructions in the initial confirmation e-mail, I was called the night before to remind me to arrive early. The class was great, the instructor Caesar explained things clearly and was very helpful for me as a complete beginner. I love the variety of activities available, as I was able to try climbing with both an auto-belay and a partner-belay on the top ropes, and also got the chance to try bouldering both inside and outdoors. This facility was large and has a lot of climbing courses for all levels. I will definitely be coming back!

The staff was quite attentive and adjusted the climbing lessons to match my abilities and desires. The facility was clean and very welcoming.

The climbing is so fun! There is a variety of options, for beginners and experts :) not to mention, the staff are so awesome, fun, and helpful. 11/10!

I love how safety orientated this gym is. Other Rock climbing gyms in the country are lackluster compared to Upper Limits Bloomington. Great enthusiastic staff people and the assistant manager was cute too.

Awesome climbing gym with lots of challenging routes and really helpful staff!

Great experience! highly recommend

What an amazing place to climb! Great routes, service and shop.

Excellent climbing gym

We have been coming to upper Limits for 5 years as a family. We now have a 14 and 11 year old along with my husband and I. We started our kids young and they love climbing! We love the unique climbing experience in the 60 foot silos with numerous top rope routes, lead climbing routes, auto belay routes, bouldering walls indoor and outdoors, and the always helpful and friendly staff! It has been a great place to workout and stay in shape for the outdoor climbing that we do.We recently took a lead climbing class ( myself, my husband, and 14 year old son) our daughter was too young. We had a great instructor who showed us how to safely belay, clip in, check the rope and our equipment and each other. The most exciting and kind of nerve wracking part of our class was when we had to take practice falls! We had to practice safely belaying during a fall and also falling ourselves over 15 feet to learn how to safely fall. I’ve never free fallen that far and it kinda rattled me, and I’ve done a lot of climbing! But it was great to learn and we were all so glad we did it! Our instructor was very thorough and knowledgeable.The staff at Upper Limits is always helpful and awesome! If you’re looking to start climbing or if you’re already a climber this place is a must see, they have something for everyone!

The staff was super nice, the walls were really fun, and I had a great time.

The facility is very good but not all staff is helpful. I took my son here to do Boys Scout Climbing Merit Badge last Saturday. Most of the staff who conducted the merit badge were helpful to the kids who have not done climbing at all before. But some (specially one female instructor) did not understand the fact that these kids were doing this merit badge to find out if they like climbing or not. Rather than trying to ignite a love for climbing, these instructors were quite strict on testing ability. If you are going to keep offering this merit badge, please review BSA merit badge objectives. Your job as merit badge instructors is to ignite a passion for climbing, not making sure they master the climbing skills on the very first day they try out climbing.

My 9 and 7 year old boys loved this camp so much that they spent nearly an entire week of winter break mastering their rock climbing skills. The staff were incredibly friendly and interactive with the climbing group, and knew my boys by name as soon as they walked in the door on day 2! Great experience. Highly recommend!!

I brought 6 boy scouts that wanted to earn the climbing merit badge. The instructors were very patient with the boys and the facility is a great place to learn. It is not only good for beginners, there are also a variety of climbs for very advanced climbers.When I signed up for the merit badge class I was told to arrive by 9:30 am so they could get all the paper work done and get fitted for equipment before the 10:00 am class started, but no employees showed up until a few minutes after 10.

We came with 12 boy scouts for the Climbing merit badge class. The entire staff was very knowledgeable, helpful, and patient. They did an excellent job teaching our scouts about climbing, belaying, and how to be safe so everyone has fun. It was a great experience and the facilities are awesome and easy to get to.

Amazing place!! Great staff, so much fun

Both of my boys attended the Upper Limits summer camp for the 3rd year in row. It is their absolute favorite camp each summer. The staff is welcoming, engaged, and they create a fun, busy, and safe environment for kids and teenagers.

My son went to the summer climbing camp and had a blast. He gained confidence and improved his climbing skills.

Staff if extremely knowledgable and friendly. The Gym is in amazing condition and is extremely unique. Youre able to climb straight up old Silos that have been converted to rock walls. AMAZING!

Climbed outdoor wall for first time today...scary fun!

Ive been climbing here for just about a year now, and just now getting around to leaving a review. This place is phenomenal! The staff is nice, knowledgeable and friendly. Same with all the members. Its an incredibly unique facility, which means lots of different options ranging from beginner to advanced. They do a good job keeping things fresh which means every week theres usually new things to look forward to. For anyone questioning if theyre strong enough, if its worth it to try once, etc. It most definitely is worth coming and this is the place to go. I would 100% recommend upper limits Bloomington to anyone and everyone.

We had our sons 10th birthday party here. All wild boys! Everything was really great and super fun. My only issue was that during our climbing time, there was a class being taught as well. The staff kept telling our boys to be quiet calm down, we have a class going on. I suggest maybe not scheduling birthday parties during training classes, is all. One, it was a group of young boys and two it was birthday party! Things are going to get fun. Other than that, it went perfect!

Our favorite spot in town, and fun for the whole family!

Very disappointed. Required to wear a mask the whole time in a hot grain silo. $20 for my four-year-old grandson who could hardly reach any climbing pegs. One of the employees was very argumentative. We wont be back.

I had a blast! The staff was so polite and helpful and the walls range from difficult to fairly easy. Bouldering was one of my favorite parts because you had no limits except for the height. Overall, my family and I had such a great time!

We were a decent group with only one of us having been here before. We had a blast. This place is great for working out. I know Im sore after climbing here. I did take a belay test and to be honest, I failed. Which I can understand why they failed me seeing as I never climbed like this before. They offered belay classes and I intend to take them. I definitely would love to learn more about rock climbing after coming here.

Great place for an afternoon. Fun workout, just wish there were more options for auto belay that werent as close to each other. If they had an addition in the future that would be sweet.

Very cool gym with a wide variety of sport-climbing routes, and some neat bouldering. The silos are very unique and awesome, theres also lots of overhangs in the main area, a sick wavy wall with a roof that makes for some very interesting climbing, and a 100 foot slab on the outside. In terms of the facilities, this is my favorite climbing gym.The only reason Im not giving it 5 starts is because of the staff. They are very overbearing and can even be condescending at times. I get that even experienced climbers can make mistakes, but its really obnoxious to have the staff as back-seat drivers anytime that youre trying to do anything. Like, Im paying to use your facilities and have a good time with my friends, give us some space to breathe. And PLEASE stop shouting beta at me if I havent asked you, most of the fun is figuring stuff out by myself...

The staff is very friendly and helpful. The other guests there are welcoming.

Upper Limits Staff always take care of our team! This is our annual trip as a team for the past 22 years and it is a great experience each time!

The folks at Upper Limits are always very helpful and encouraging. Its a great community and environment for individuals, friends, and families.

Great gym, awesome staff. Tons of cool lead routes and a unique experience climbing in the silos. Wish this was my local gym

Great place. Staff was really friendly and helpful. Good way for kids to blow off some energy and good winter activity.

Great routes, friendly staff, and unique facilities make this a great place to climb. Ive been to countless other gyms that are nowhere near the quality this one is. The indoor/outdoor availability, bouldering, and incline lead routes make this a phenomenal place to train! 🤘

Overall not great. Not really sure what all the hype is about. Its super expensive, like $20 for just a day pass. Route setting was sub-par, but the silos are cool, and they have a large outdoor wall. Would not go again, but interesting to check out

Received the worst customer service with an issue that we had. If you go here, youd better hope you dont have any problems. They didnt care if they lost a customer and were unwilling to work with me.

This gym has much to offer with a great atmosphere. We have young children who love climbing here with us. Top-rope, lead and bouldering. A fair number of auto-belay routes, as well. The staff is knowledgeable and helpful.

Great place to work out or to just have fun. Staff, especially Issac is super knolageble and encouraging. Would definitely return!

I have never been rock climbing before but after going to Upper Limits Im hooked!!!!!!!Exstreamly nice and knowledgeable staff (funny too) they helped my friend an I get all set up!Very clean and kid friendly too!!!The only downfall I would say is I wished they had more to climb for us newbies hahah!!I would go every weekend if it was closer!!!

Wow, what a special place! 65 foot high climbing routes inside the guts of an old grain elevator! The poured concrete silo walls (complete with old cracks as naturals) offer many interesting climbing options not found on more typical climbing walls.

Dangerous. Holds spin and the staff will explain that its normal and that they cannot do anything about it. Every session 2 or 3 holds spin on me. Spinning holds lead to uncontrolled falls. Today I almost hit one of the lights in the silos. Staff assured me that holds will always spin there and that its part of climbing (I have never had this issue at other gyms). Despite the last 6 months of me expressing this concern, it remains a problem.A spinning hold could cause climbers to fall. Uncontrolled falling from a climbing wall could cause serious injury or death.-Three Ball Climbing

This place was fantastic! Who would have thought that there would be such a cool rock climbing gym in central illinois? It is a great use of an old silo.

Poor management and horrible safety cautions. I am an experienced climber and I already knew the safety precautions, but they did not tell the young ones. One got hurt and the staff only blamed the adults even though they did not explain what is “normal”. Horrible experience and I do not recommend this place. Place is dangerous and staff is poor tempered when it’s their fault.

Knowledgeable friendly staff. Great atmosphere to workout. Lucky to have this unique facility in BloNo.

Our group had zero climbing experience and thought this place looked like fun so we planned a day trip.The place looked even more impressive in person. Staff was super friendly and knowledgeable. We used the autobelay systems only and the bouldering areas inside and outside. Very fun and had some very challenging routes (from a noob standpoint). Equipment rental was cheap (10$).Tldr; Super fun place. Would recommend.

Probably the best place to go for rock climbing training/exercise without going to Chicago, or the southern tip of Illinois.

Kids had fun, but reservations and check in were all screwed up and ended up costing more $$$

Awesome staff. Loved it!! Very busy on the Saturday we came.

Among the coolest things Ive ever witnessed.

A fantastic place for kids to learn rock climbing and bouldering

Good turnover time on the routes. Plenty of 5.9 and 5.10 routes.

Great route setting and pro shop!

Wonderful facility! Unique and challenging!

Great working with Scout Groups!

Staff was rude(Danny)Not worth the money

Love this place!