Steamboat Climbing Collective hopes to bring new energy, and experience to the indoor gym.

John F. Russell – Pilot & Today

“On Monday morning, June 6, the space inside the Steamboat Climbing Collective was filled with the energy of dozens of children as they played games and tested their skills on the gym’s 2,245 square feet of brightly colored climbing walls.

“We are working to make it more of a family and community-oriented gym,” said Karla Lankford, who purchased the Love, Climbing, Adventure gym in December. “I owned a climbing gym in Boulder for 10 years and I had retired. This gym was being liquidated, and I just didn’t want the community to lose the climbing gym. I felt it was important.”

She spent four months cleaning, painting, and making improvements that she hopes will carry the gym into the future before reopening at the end of March as the Steamboat Climbing Collective.“

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