Geelong’s Indoor Climbing Centre
The Rock Adventure Centre has been Geelong's vertical obsession since 2001. With a huge variety of climbs from beginners to experts, gear shop, cafe and an extensive bouldering and training area - The Rock has all your climbing needs covered.
Climbing for all ages
The Rock caters for kids of all ages, ask us about our Birthday Parties!
Coffee
Cafe - Real espresso coffee, using locally roasted beans, hot chocolates, cold drinks & snacks available.
"You don't go out for coffee after Climbing, coffee is part of Climbing"
Bouldering
Upstairs, we have our MASSIVE bouldering cave, with over 500m² of constantly changing problems of every style and grade. Fully padded floor, climbers of all ages and skill levels can get up there to test physical limits, and train for strength and endurance.
Over 100 Climbs on 25 walls
With walls up to 12 metres high, an extensive roped climbing area with 2 auto belays and 23 top rope set-ups to choose from - over 100 climbs to test every level. Routes are changed often to create new challenges for regular climbers.
Gear Shop
Climbing equipment shop, with all your climbing needs: Chalk, chalk-bags, guidebooks, shoes and much more. We also welcome orders for gear not in stock. More info on our Gear Shop page.
Training areas
Extensive training area for intermediate and advanced climbers, stretching area, campus boards & now with a 2016 set Moon Wall, check out https://moonboard.com/
Lead Climbing
For experienced climbers, 11 walls are equipped for lead climbing, with routes up to 15m long. Bring your own rope, and preferred belay device. If you have not lead here before, you will need to go through a lead check, call first to make sure we can accommodate you.
Trip Advisor
Are you on Trip Advisor? If you are and you loved The Rock, or just really liked it, Pop on over and let everyone else on Trip Advisor know. Thanks.
3 days 8 hours ago
We are glad that regional Victoria is moving to the next step, unfortunately at this point The Rock is not included. Well not just us, but indoor gyms throughout regional Vic. We don’t have any firm idea on our re opening date as yet.
Stay tuned here because when we know, then so will you. We are still busy setting new routes and making sure The Rock is going to be fresh and clean when you get back. Keep stretching, working your core and we’ll see you soon.
1 week 5 hours ago
Rainy Saturday, no climbing! Have a laugh here youtu.be/dfUzbguPx_Y
Тот самый единорог, который взорвал инстаграм 😉 http://instagram.com/donskoy_artem/ Скалолазание это фан 🤪 Это не только про результаты и достижения, здесь м...
1 week 6 days ago
We were hopefully going to see you all back again in a week or two, but the new roadmap out of this means that we won’t be open again until later this year. Stay strong and safe, if you need anything, contact us and we can try to help keep you moving and somewhat strong. Let us know if there is anything you would like to see here from us. Technique, tips or just some videos to keep you psyched.
2 weeks 4 days ago
Happy 19th Birthday to The Rock Adventure Centre. Yep, 19 years ago today we first opened to the public and it has been amazing, mostly because of all the wonderful and stoked people we get to meet and help get started climbing and continue to enjoy The Rock and elsewhere. Thank you to everyone that has enjoyed our space and a massive thanks to The Rocks staff, for making it what it is. We are really bummed that we don’t get to celebrate with you all this year. Hopefully we will see you all in a couple of weeks for a belated Bday. #happybirthday #19yearsold #climbing #bouldering #geelongclimbing
2 weeks 5 days ago
We all know core is incredibly important for climbing, it connects all our bits together and helps immeasurably with your climbing. As much as we are looking forward to having you back, we can’t yet, but here are 5 simple core exercises for you to get you body back in time.
15 minute circuit and do 30 reps of each and see how many rounds you can do.
Flutter Kicks
Heel touches
Plank leg raises
Dish-tuck
Side plank crunches
If you are having trouble, drop the reps down to 15 or 20 each. Have fun and we’ll see you soon. #climbing #coreworkout #bouldering #staysafe #seeyousoon
3 weeks 5 days ago
Hope you are all well. We have been a bit quiet here of late, but we haven’t been resting. New boulder problems and routes are being made ready for our re opening in September. In the mean time, here is a fantastic movie about some of the history at Mt Arapiles, one of the best climbing areas in the world.
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1 month 1 week ago
We have started the small reset of the bouldering area. Anyone have any projects they were really close too? Let us know and we will@try to leave them up for when we get back to this in September. #closure😔 #bouldering #climbing #RockClimbing #geelongclimbing #reopensoon #missyou
1 month 1 week ago
1 month 2 weeks ago
Industry is open. Get online and book your spot before closures hit again Wednesday night.
1 month 2 weeks ago
After a big weekend of news, we find out that will be closing again as if 9:30pm Wednesday the 5th of August. We still have 3 days of climbing to do, but remember, to enter The Rock you Must have a face covering, if you don’t, you will asked not to come in until you do. You can remove this to climb/belay if needed. If you are just belaying then you will need to keep it on.
Remember to continue to wash your hands and keep your distance as well. This will all help keep you and us safe.
P.S This is not an appropriate Mask.
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