The Oaks Climbing
About
The Oaks Climbing is a rock climbing gym located in San Francisco's East Bay area, part of the Touchstone climbing gym network. Housed in a creatively repurposed former movie theater, the facility offers two floors of tall climbing walls with a focus on bouldering disciplines. Members appreciate the visually stunning design, clean environment, and variety of climbing options including overhang and slab boulders across different grades. The gym continues to expand its offerings with ongoing route setting and plans for additional features like a moon board setup.
reviewsWhat Members Say
Members consistently praise the gym's excellent bouldering facilities, particularly noting the variety of overhang and slab boulders across different grades. Many describe it as their favorite Touchstone gym in the East Bay area, highlighting the clean environment, family-friendly atmosphere for children, and unique theater conversion with tall walls. Several reviewers mention ongoing improvements and route setting, with anticipation for planned additions like a moon board. One reviewer expresses significant concerns about cultural appropriation and manipulation through yoga practices, though this appears as an isolated perspective among overwhelmingly positive feedback about the climbing experience.
rate_reviewGoogle Reviews (5)
Mina D
4 weeks ago
Favorite east bay touchstone gym! Perfect fot little kids as well as advanced boulderers. Great location!
Naveed Rahman
6 months ago
Cool gym in a prior theater. Very clean and decent bouldering space, seems like they'll have a moon board (?) setup at some point too which is neat. They've got 4 top rope routes too but you'll definitely want to be here for the bouldering.
Qingyu Lin
7 months ago
Fabulous bouldering gym in the east bay area. If you like bouldering, you shouldn't miss this place! Especially overhang and slab boulders, there are a lot here with different grades.
Michael Kawamoto
a year ago
New gym! Part of the Touchstone climbing gyms. The unique design used a former movie theater so there are two floors of tall walls. They currently still setting more climbs and it looks like they are still building the back wall. Looking forward to climbing here more often!
David La Fleur
2 months ago
Really cool gym. Cool idea, it’s visually stunning. But Touchstone and its gyms and employees are routinely exploited and degraded and if you don’t fit the mold or mold yourself to fit their expectation, you will be outcast and treated as such. Prepare yourself to be manipulated by their “yogis” if you don’t fit in, they will use “the flow” and the concept of “energy” for nefarious purposes and in more severe cases you may find yourself subjected to their own delusions about past lives and other historically significant motifs from the hindu faith and yogic practices. I’m not delegitimizating these beliefs in the slightest, I have a deep reverence and respect for the Hindu faith, its practitioners and the use of yoga as a tool for spiritual growth throughout the world, but these folks will use these historically significant themes to manipulate you for their own gain. Be aware, stay in community with people you know and trust and don’t isolate yourself, it makes it easier for you to be manipulated by them. Gorgeous gym though, y’all are very effective at what you do, leave the yogi stuff out please, it’s unfair to drag a historically significant religion and their practitioners through the mud for personal gain.
Contact
1875 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707, USA
scheduleHours
Monday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM