Climbing Walls in Liverpool

Roped climbing at Awesome Walls

Awesome Walls Liverpool, on Athol Street in north Liverpool, was the first Awesome Walls centre. Its founder says it opened in 1999, three years after his first wall, inside the former St Albans church. Today it has walls up to 14m with more than 150 routes on 54 lines, nine auto-belays and a bouldering room. It has run a Winter Leading League and monthly bouldering competitions, plus women's coaching and social climbing evenings for members. It's the place in the city to learn to belay or lead.

Bouldering

The Climbing Hangar has two halls in the city. Liverpool North, its original centre on Birchall Street in Sandhills, has two floors of bouldering, a kids' area for ages 4 and up, a gym and training area and a café. It hosts weekly women's sessions and a monthly LGBTQ+ night. Liverpool South is in the Matchworks on Speke Road, with a Kilter Board training area, a strength gym and a Bold Street Coffee café.

Across the river, Climbing Hut Ellesmere Port, formerly Boulder Hut, is a bouldering-only centre at Olympic Park with walls up to 4.5m graded VB to V7+, two kids' areas called Boulder Zoo and Boulder Play, and a café serving pizza.

Prices and passes

In October 2026 an adult day pass cost £14 at Climbing Hut, £15 at Awesome Walls and £17 at the Climbing Hangar. Monthly memberships were cheaper than in many UK cities: £37.99 at the Climbing Hangar, from £39 at Awesome Walls (where pay-monthly members get free harness and shoe hire) and £48 at Climbing Hut. Awesome Walls also offers off-peak member entry on weekday daytimes and a punch pass with the 11th climb free.

Beginners and kids

For a first go, the bouldering halls are simplest: you need no partner or rope skills, just a short induction and rented shoes. To learn to climb with a rope, book an induction or a belay course at Awesome Walls. For children, the Climbing Hangar's kids' area in Sandhills takes ages 4 and up, and Climbing Hut has two separate kids' zones; check each wall's supervision rules before you go.

Climbing outdoors near Liverpool

The nearest rock is the soft red sandstone of Cheshire and Merseyside, covered by the BMC's guidebook. Helsby, above the M56 and the Mersey, has more than 300 climbs on three main buttresses, and the Upper and Lower Central Buttresses are closed from 1 March to 30 June when peregrines nest. Nearby Frodsham is a set of smaller outcrops with short, technical problems usually climbed without ropes, and Pex Hill quarry near Widnes is known for hard, fingery routes on tiny holds. Sandstone is fragile when damp, so stay away after rain.

For mountain crags, North Wales is about an hour's drive away: see our page on climbing in North Wales. For more walls nearby see Manchester and Preston, or our guide to climbing in the UK.