How we work

Fewer places, checked better

Climb Like Locals is the sister project of Run Like Locals. The idea is the same: when you land in a new city, you want to know what the people who live there do, not a list of every wall in the region.

Where the data comes from

• Positions of gyms and crags come from OpenStreetMap (ODbL) or from the official site. We never type coordinates from memory.
• Hours, prices and styles come from the gym's own website, with the date we checked them.
• Route data (lines, grades per route, topos) belongs to guidebook authors and topo platforms. We give the grade range of a crag and link to the topo.

Draft and reviewed guides

A guide starts as a draft, compiled from open data, and is not indexed by search engines. It becomes reviewed when a climber who lives in the city has checked it and added their beta.

Live somewhere worth climbing?

We are looking for local climbers to review and write city guides. Write to us and tell us your city and your favourite crag.