Climbing resources for the Boston area

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Greater Boston

Boston Chapter Mountaineering Committee (BCMC)

Committee of the Boston Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC). The Mountaineering Committee provides instruction (e.g. the annual Rock Program) and hosts climbing and social events.

BRG Wednesday Regulars

Google Group for a bunch of us who climb regularly at Boston Rock Gym on Wednesday nights and (usually) Sunday mornings. We use the list to organize outdoor climbing day trips on the weekends.

Tuesday Night North Shore climbing

Eulogy for Tuesday Night climbing
Local weather forecasts:

• West Medford (near Boston)

This is a link to the forecast updated every few hours on the National Weather Service forecasting site.

Local rock gyms:

These are the nearby ones that I visit least occasionally:

• MetroRock, 69 Norman St, Everett; 617-387-7625. It's an older facility, but it has plenty of space and great variety of terrain, and lots of friendly people.
• Central Rock Gym, 10 Adam Rd, Stoneham, 781-438-2905. I used to be a member, and it's a brand new facility and nice enough, but it's much too small for someone who wants to climb 3-4 times per week. I also visit their Watertown location, which is larger, but often much more crowded (at least it was pre-Covid-19).
• Alas, my all-time favorite was Boston Rock Gym, which closed in January of 2019.

Eastern Massachusetts is well supplied with rock gyms; for a fuller listing, see the page for Massachusetts at indoorclimbing.com.

Further afield

• Weather for other climbing venues, published by the Weather Underground:
  • Leominster MA (Crow Hill)
  • Erving MA (Farley)
  • Rumney NH
  • North Conway (Cathedral, Whitehorse)
  • New Paltz NY (the Shawangunks)
  • Jaffrey NH (Mt. Monadnock)
• http://www.neclimbs.com/, "the home of New England Climbing"

Alternative activities

• If climbing proves not to be your thing, you might prefer to be a gekkonaut.