Kids and their parents tied knots, played games and scaled colorful walls inside a large warehouse near Interstate 25 and Colorado Highway 470.
It was a grand opening celebration for a new Movement location, a rock climbing gym in the Centennial area. It also offers yoga and group fitness opportunities. It is the company’s sixth gym in Colorado.
“We identified an opportunity to serve a portion of the Denver community that lacked easy access to our other locations, and felt that we could provide a place for the climbing community (to) grow in the south metro area,” gym director Kory Stratton wrote in an email to the Centennial Citizen.
Movement, which also has gyms in Englewood, Golden, and two in Denver, offers top rope and lead climbing on its 55-foot walls. Top rope climbing is a form of rock climbing where climbers are attached to ropes on a fixed anchor on a wall. In lead climbing, athletes clip their ropes into anchors on the wall as they ascend their route.
The new gym also offers bouldering, a form of climbing in which climbers are not attached to ropes as they complete shorter routes.
The gym, located at 9657 E. County Line Road near IKEA, used to be occupied by a retail golf store, Stratton said. Construction began in the summer of 2023 and involved taking off part of the roof and raising it 25 feet for climbing walls, he said.
Movement memberships include unlimited access to all gym locations. The gym also offers climbing instructional classes and after-school programs, summer camps and a youth climbing team, Stratton said.
Stratton said he hopes the gym makes a positive impact.
“Our hope is to help spread the love for climbing, yoga and fitness in this community and to provide an environment where people can be better versions of themselves,” he said.