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Fredrikstad, Oslo, Lørenskog, Bergen, Trondheim, Sauda and Arendal have new climbing centres, Klatreverket Torshov has grown, and Høyt Under Taket's centres join Skimore on 16 November 2026. Here's what has changed.
Norway's climbing map has changed a lot recently, with new centres in Fredrikstad, Oslo, Lørenskog, Bergen, Trondheim, Sauda and Arendal, bigger walls at some of the established gyms, and a change of membership for Høyt Under Taket's centres this November. Here's what's new.
Fredrikstad Klatreklubb opened Fredrikstad Buldresenter at Gressvik in autumn 2025, next to its older rope centre: 668 m² of Walltopia bouldering walls, a children's section, a small training room and a café. Only a few months later, in February 2026, it hosted the senior Norwegian bouldering championships. See our Østfold guide.
Brak Buldring has opened on Kampen in eastern Oslo as a bouldering centre built around a social space: about 569 m² of Walltopia walls and an LED training board, with a café and bar, a sauna, yoga and a kids' area, and events from film nights to DJ nights.
Just east of Oslo, Triaden Klatresenter opened in 2025 in the Triaden shopping centre in Lørenskog, run by the company Moments Climbing Norway. It has 1,505 m² of climbing, mostly bouldering, with a Kilter Board and a MoonBoard, a rope wall with an auto-belay on every line, a strength room and a café, and you can drop in without booking. See our Oslo guide.
Studio Vertikal Klatresenter at Kokstad, five minutes' walk from the light rail, is a full climbing centre with about 85 boulders, 24 rope routes on walls nearly 9 m high and 15 auto-belays, plus a Kilter Board, a Tension Board 2 Spray and a spray wall with a replica of the famous boulder Burden of Dreams. It joins a busy Bergen scene.
In Trondheim, UTE.no and Trondheim Buldresenter have joined forces as Buld, rebuilding and extending the old Utehallen at Lade into a bouldering centre that's open from 07:00 to 23:00 every day, with a café and a free introduction for beginners every Thursday.
The small Ryfylke town of Sauda now has Klyv Klatresenter, run with Sauda Klatreklubb, with about 843 m² of bouldering, rope climbing and auto-belays on Walltopia walls completed in 2025. Visitors can drop in at weekends, and members have key-card access every day.
In Arendal, volunteers from Grimstad Arendal Klatreklubb built Arendal Buldresenter in about 250 m² of the Nå Padel hall, which the club can use free of charge for ten years, and opened it on 1 November 2025. The bouldering spreads over two floors with a separate children's area, a professional setter puts up new problems about every five weeks, and visitors book a three-hour drop-in session online, which cost NOK 150 in October 2026. Club members climb free at any hour.
On Sunnmøre, Stranda Buldresenter, opened by local volunteers in 2023, reopened on 31 July 2025 under the activity company Uteguiden. It's an unstaffed bouldering room by the ferry quay, open from 07:00 to 22:00 with a PIN code bought online.
Klatreverket Torshov, the Oslo centre that opened in 2006, added a tower of auto-belays in 2026, with six 14 m lines and four 10 m lines, along with two new bouldering rooms. In Bergen, Bergen Klatresenter Fana added a Tension Board 2 Spray in June 2026.
From 16 November 2026, entry and memberships at Høyt Under Taket's centres become part of Skimore, the membership for ski and activity parks around Oslo, Drammen and Kongsberg. Single visits become guest passes, visit cards and 12-month memberships haven't been sold since 15 October, and monthly memberships end on 15 November. A Skimore membership costs NOK 289 a month for ages 7 to 79. The change affects Tønsberg, Skien, Moss and Letohallen in Eidsvoll, so check the new prices before you visit.
Not every gym has survived. Gneis Buldring's self-service bouldering centre at Damsgårdsveien in Bergen has closed: its website went offline in 2024, after its sister centre in Trondheim had gone bankrupt. The old Trondheim Buldresenter, meanwhile, became part of Buld.
For every wall that's open now, see our guide to climbing in Norway.
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