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CWA Returns To Salt Lake City For 2025 CWA Summit!

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The CWA announced that the 2025 CWA Summit would return to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, running April 15-19, 2025. This marks the Summit's return to the Mountain West for the first time since the record-breaking 2022 Salt Lake City event drew 1,125 attendees. The article provides historical context: the first 12 CWA Summits all took place in Colorado, in Boulder and Loveland, laying the groundwork for the Summit to become the biggest gathering in the indoor climbing industry. Executive Director Garnet Moore praises Salt Lake City as an incredible climbing city, full of amazing indoor gyms and minutes from some of the world's top outdoor climbing destinations, expressing excitement to return. He recalls the 2022 Summit as incredibly successful not only for its record attendance but for the community atmosphere and palpable excitement about indoor climbing, making the city a natural choice to host again. The piece details the deliberate process behind the decision. The CWA ran a rigorous vetting process in fall 2023 to determine the 2025 location, concluding Salt Lake City was the clear winner and finalizing the agreement in December 2023. Notably, the CWA used the opportunity to adjust the Summit's dates to earlier in the spring, choosing dates with less crossover with the typical US and Canadian climbing competition schedules, a scheduling refinement meant to make it easier for competition-involved professionals to attend. The throughline is that the 2025 Summit's return to Salt Lake City reflects both the city's strengths as a climbing hub and the CWA's data-driven approach to hosting. By returning to a proven, well-loved venue and thoughtfully timing the event around the competition calendar, the CWA aimed to build on the momentum of its record-breaking 2022 gathering.

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The CWA announced the 2025 Summit's return to Salt Lake City's Salt Palace, April 15-19, its first Mountain West return since the record 1,125-attendee 2022 event. After 12 early Summits in Colorado, the CWA chose Salt Lake City through a rigorous 2023 vetting process and shifted dates earlier to reduce competition-calendar overlap.