Climbing gyms, via ferratas and trails
without digging through dozens of sites

A universal, searchable database of climbing venues — with links to the sources, a history of changes and live filters.

Problem

Public does not always mean easy to check

Opening hours, prices and rules are out in the open — but they sit scattered across dozens of fan pages, PDFs and club websites. Who has the time to gather that in one place? We do it for you: we read it and we tidy it up.

From public information to a searchable database

  1. Collection

    Climbing gym websites, registers and listings — gathered in one place.

  2. Reading

    Opening hours, prices and facilities pulled out of the text of the page.

  3. Structuring

    Free text normalised into the same fields for every single venue.

  4. Publication

    The data lands in an interactive search on the map.

How you look for a climbing gym today

All of this is public information. The problem is where it sits and how long it takes to find.

Without the map

Scattered
  • Hours on the website, in listings and on Facebook — three different sets
  • A phone call to check whether it is open today
  • Starting the search from scratch in every city
  • No way to tell whether there is rope climbing or only bouldering
  • Sports cards: “they probably accept them”

With wspin.com.pl

One place
  • Every climbing gym on one map — no jumping between websites
  • Hours checked at the source, unknown ones marked as such
  • Filters: open now, pets allowed, climbing type
  • Bouldering, rope or both — visible from the pin colour
  • Only the sports cards confirmed on the climbing gym’s own website
  • Report a fix with one form
441climbing gyms in the database
299cities
8countries

What is in the database

Climbing gyms in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France is an interactive map that helps you find a climbing gym in your city or region. We have collected 441 climbing gyms in 299 cities — with opening hours, climbing type (bouldering or rope), pet access and accepted sports cards.

Pick a country, region or city, click a climbing gym and you immediately know whether it is open and what it offers.

What we confirm, and what is an assumption

Names, addresses, opening hours and climbing type are confirmed at the source. Two things are an assumption, because climbing gyms usually do not publish them: pet access (you can send us a correction) and sports cards (we show the set typically accepted in Poland). Some climbing gyms publish no hours at all — those are marked “Hours unknown” rather than shown as closed. If your trip depends on any of this, call the climbing gym.

Open the mapReport a fix

What comes next

The map works and it is public. Below is what we are doing now and what we plan — without dates we cannot keep.

  1. Today

    The map and climbing gym pagesLive

    441 climbing gyms in 299 cities across 8 countries, each with its own page: hours, climbing type, address and directions. Names, addresses and hours are confirmed at the source; a climbing gym that publishes no hours is marked “hours unknown”, not “closed”.

  2. Soon

    Climbing gyms near me

    A list sorted by distance from you, with “12 km away” on the card. Location already works for “Directions” — it needs wiring into the list.

  3. Later

    Region pages

    Voivodeships, Czech regions, US and German states as pages of their own — the missing link between a whole country and a single city, and a way into the small towns that today have a single link pointing at them.

  4. Later

    Via ferrata

    A second kind of place on the same map: location, difficulty, approach and season. Not a second map and not a second site — one more category to filter alongside bouldering and rope.

  5. Someday (?)

    A phone app

    The same data core in a mobile app — the database and the logic have been written from the start so they can move across without a rewrite.

Support

The project runs on donations

There is no company behind this map — it is written and kept up to date after hours. If it saved you a phone call or an evening of digging, you can now chip in on Patronite.

  • Servers and the domain
  • Reading and checking the data
  • New features from the roadmap

Support on PatroniteEverything stays free either way — no paywall, no account required.