Climbing in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan

Grip It Caswell

Grip It Caswell on 23rd Street West, which calls itself Saskatchewan's largest indoor climbing facility, has walls from 8 to 50 feet: more than 20 top-rope walls, lead and auto-belays, plus 10-foot bouldering walls reset weekly. It's the only Grip It gym with top rope and lead. New climbers can take a free 45-minute Climbing 101 class or buy a First Time Package, $38 for two weeks with gear in October 2026. Early In and Twilight passes are 40% off, and the gym is busiest from 16:30 to 19:30.

Grip It Nelson

Grip It Nelson, in University Heights, opened on 17 September 2023 as Saskatoon's first bouldering-focused climbing gym. It has 125 linear feet of bouldering, five auto-belay walls up to about 25 feet, a Kilter Board, weights, showers and espresso, and it hosts the HOLD UP competition series, which ends with a finale in June.

University of Saskatchewan

The Wall, at the Physical Activity Complex, is a 40-foot rock-style wall in the Fit Centre. It's open to students, PAC members and the public: book a $10 orientation and belay test online and bring a partner. Lead climbing is for over-18s, and youth and family drop-in runs at weekends from 10:30 to 15:00.

Martensville

About 18 km north, the Saputo Climbing Centre at the Martensville Recreation Centre opened in 2025 with a $50,000 gift from Saputo. All climbing is on auto-belays on the main wall, drop-in times change from week to week, and a drop-in cost $13.88, tax included, in October 2026.

Prices

In October 2026 an adult day pass cost $18.90 at both Grip It gyms, or $28 with all rental gear, and $10 plus GST at the University of Saskatchewan, after the one-off $10 orientation.

Regina

Regina Climbing Centre on Solomon Crescent opened in January 2018 as Saskatchewan's second commercial climbing gym, and runs a youth competition programme; a day pass cost $24 in October 2026. The YMCA of Regina on Rochdale Boulevard holds all-ages wall climbing sessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, with an $18.50 day pass including GST.

Climbing outdoors

The Alpine Club of Canada's Saskatchewan Section describes its members as living hours away from anything remotely vertical. The rock is in the far north, on the Canadian Shield, where many faces are mossy: in a trip report the ACC published in 2022, seven women flew in from Missinipe, about five hours' drive north of Saskatoon, canoed the Foster River and put up three new routes up to the low 5.11s. If you're planning a trip to the Rockies, see outdoor climbing near Calgary.

Clubs and competitions

Sport Climbing Saskatchewan was incorporated in 2025 as the provincial sport organisation. In January 2026 Climbing Escalade Canada said it wasn't yet a member, so the province's young climbers compete at Alberta's youth provincials, and Sport Climbing Saskatchewan ranks them from those results. Team Saskatchewan lists sport climbing among its sports for the 2027 Canada Games in Quebec City. The ACC's Saskatchewan Section, first formed in 1921 and re-formed in 1995, runs climbing nights, training and trips, and the university holds Wall Social evenings for students.