Hangar 18 Indoor Climbing Gym - Long Beach

I've been to the Long Beach Hangar twice now, and the second time around, the routes were super interesting. Each wall offers fairly unique climbs like a lot of gyms try to offer, but I feel Long Beach routesetters know what they're doing. There were a few climbs that offered dynamic approaches to them that were super fun, and you feel cool swinging from one hold to a mid-air hang between two holds. Super stellar stuff. The gym isn't as big as the Orange location, but parking is plenty, and it doesn't get nearly as crowded as Orange either. I came here Saturday morning and never once felt like I had to wait for anyone to climb anything. They do offer top rope and auto belay here, and I'll admit I was rusty on my top rope tech ique, but the front desk staff were super helpful and gave us a refresher. They have a small workout area with a bench and a few weights that nothing to be amazed about as well as a standard campus board and kilter. Honestly, if the Orange location is packed, come check out Long Beach Hangar. You won't be disappointed. Update: May 2024 I've been really enjoying coming here on the weekends. There's still no crowd, parking is always available, staff always friendly, and the routes have gotten more unique since my initial review, in my opinion. They do take a bit of time to reset certain walls but this gives you enough time to work out a project.

The gym staff were really nice and welcoming, making me immediately feel at home. The gym itself is on the smaller side with two top rope walls, two auto belay walls and an average sized bouldering area. For solo climbers, there are a total of five auto belays, all of which had a 5.9 or lower set on them. The setting was a little stiffer than I’m used to but my gym is known for soft setting (Touchstone). All in all you really can’t beat it for the atmosphere and price.

This is my go to gym when I need to workout and climb. The bouldering walls are updated in sections and done every Tuesday so there’s always new routes once a week in different sections! The staff is super friendly and it’s usually great music (sometimes there is loud rock which I’m not a fan of but eh what can you do 🤷🏻‍♀️). The top rope section is small but that’s okay there are two areas to do it. The autobelay is nice when you want to do reps of climbs to get your cardio. The only drawback of this place is the lack of A/C and it definitely smells like feet 😂 but for the price I can’t complain too much. This place is great and if you end up liking this company there are tons of other locations you can go to with your membership and they’re all unique and fun! This gym is the reason I’m so into climbing now and I’ve learned a lot from the people who both work there and climb there.

Really like this hangar 18 versus the one in orange. This location tends to be less crowded during peak times. It’s bigger, offers bouldering, auto belay and top rope. The staff and vibe are much better in my opinion. This gym is also extremely kid friendly with many kids in the gym climbing. Seems like a community and everyone likes to help everyone vs the orange location where everyone was very indifferent to you being there. My kids ages 13 and 9 love it here. There are many beginner routes and enough to challenge more experienced climbers. I would highly recommend this location if you have kids.

Best Hangar 18 I’ve visited in SoCal in terms of climbing routes for beginner. The gym is large. A lot of trails both bouldering and belay (didn’t see much auto belay though). Plenty of parking including those in shades. Cool temperature. Aircon was working better than other Hangar 18 I’ve been to. Restroom wasn’t that pleasant.