The 43 Brands who Sell Crash Pads

The 43 Brands who Sell Crash Pads are listed below. When we know where the pads are made (that may or may not be the same location as the brand headquarters), we’ll include that information too. If you click on a logo you’ll be sent to WeighMyRack where you can see all the pads by that brand.

As with most categories on WeighMyRack we had no idea there were this many brands before starting some intensive research. We were also stoked with the amount of small manufacturers (in the US and abroad) making bouldering pads. Likely there are even some micro brands in other countries that haven’t made it to this list yet because we haven’t stumbled across them. It seems that the textile industry is a little easier to get into versus the hardware industry in terms of manufacturing costs, knowledge, and regulation.

This list used to have well over 50 brands. Sadly, the new trend in this industry for every 1 brand added, 2 disappear. Also worth noting, this list only includes crash pads specifically made for outdoor climbing. It does not include companies that only produce padded mats for indoor climbing or gym/fitness/aerial use.

1. Alpkit – UK
   
2. Asana – Boise, ID, USA
   
3. Beal
   
4. Black Diamond
   
5. Cassin / CAMP
   
6. Climb X
   
7. Corazon
   
8. Edelrid
   
9. Evolv
   
10. Flashed – Canada
    
11. Flipp – Sofia, Bulgaria (they also rent pads)
    
12. Gadd – Częstochowa, Poland, likely only available in Poland
    
13. Gipfel Climbing – India
    
14. Grivel
    
15. Kinetik – Boulder, CO, USA
    
16. LACD
    
17. Loopwear – Spain
18. Mad Rock
    
19. Mammut
    
20. Mantle Climbing
    
21. Metolius – US company, pads made in Vietnam
    
22. Milo
    
23. Misty Mountain – Banner Elk, NC, USA
    
24. Moon Climbing
    
25. Mountain Method
    
26. Mushroom Pads – Madrid, Spain, shipping to all of Europe
27. Ocun
    
28. Organic – Philipsburg, PA, USA
    
29. Peter Bouldering (rebranded from the original name: Pad)
    
30. Petzl
    
31. Psychi
    
32. Rock Slave
    
33. Rockstone
    
34. Send – Hueco Tanks, TX, USA
    
35. Simond
    
36. Singing Rock
    
37. Snap Climbing
    
38. So Ill
    
39. Spotter – Hueco Tanks, TX, USA
    
40. Trango
    
41. Ultra Climbing
    
42. Voodoo – Flagstaff, AZ, USA
    
43. Wild Country
    

FWIW, there is no difference whether you refer to your safety zone as a bouldering pad, crashpad or crash mat, foam pad, a mattress, or if you’re totally old school, “carpet.” It wasn’t until the early 90’s that crash pads were commercially available, under the brand Kinnaloa, by Bruce Pottenger. And a hearty shout-out to Cordless and Metolius for taking the risk-plunge in manufacturing crash pads on a bigger scale and allowing them to become an acceptable climbing tool.

Brands who no longer manufacture bouldering pads:

Some of these brands are still making climbing gear but they just stopped making pads.

Base Cubic – 4 bouldering mats

Bittersweet – Utah

Butora – 2 bouldering pads

Charko – 4 crash pads

Chillaz – pad with a middle air layer no longer sells pads

Climb Tech – 2 bouldering pads, made in partnership with Organic. PA

Cordless

DMM – 4 bouldering pads (pads made in Europe, not at the DMM headquarters)

Five Ten – 1 bouldering pad, made in parternship with Organic. PA

Fixe – 1 crashpad

Franklin Climbing – Utah

Globe – Makes the classic Globe Ground Control Pad

Kinnaloa

Kush Climbing – Custom printed topsheets and eco-friendly (hemp) taco pads. Boulder, CO. Interview.

Lhotse – 3 crash pads

PadStar

Pusher – 3 hinge/taco hybrid pads (same folks who created Cordless Pads). Boulder, CO Closed Dec, 2014.

Podsacks – 2 crash pads (Made in the UK)

Red Chili – 2 crash pads – Bought by Edelrid, and Edelrid makes pads

Revolution Climbing – 4 taco pads (a “spawn/brethren” of Cordless). Boulder, CO Closed Dec, 2014.

Revolution Climbing – 2 crash pads (a franchise of the US Revolution Climbing brand, though this brand has the pads made locally in Europe)

Rockstone – Based in Chicago, Illinois, they sell a USA made bouldering pad.

Simond – 1 crash pad

Stonelick – 5 crashpads that all have a step hinge. Vermont! Assumed closed. Website down, no FB updates.

Vcrux – 6 taco style crash pads. Hueco Tanks, TX Re-branded to Spotter.

VLine – 3 bouldering pads, fully customizable options as well, currently all taco style. Salt Lake City, UT

Do you know of any brands we missed? Let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure to add them in!

Update 3/15: Added Gadd and RockSlave thanks to Nicola in the comments.

Update 9/15: We did stumble upon a Nova Scotia brand, Earth Bones Climbing, but it looks like they only have a Kickstarter campaign, and do not have a stock of pads to offer, yet.

Update 10/15: Changed PAD to Peter Bouldering thanks to Lada in the comments.

Update 3/16: Thanks to Lada in the comments for letting us know about Corazon.

Update 7/18: Thanks to Jim in the comments we’ve updated Stonelick’s status and changed VCrux to Spotter. And thanks to Lada for reminding us to add Butora. And thanks to Joel on Facebook for introducing us to Flipp.

Update 4/19: Thanks to an email from Jan we added Milo and Lhotse, and we’re up to 46.

Update 4/20: Thanks to Carlos via the comments we added his company Mushroom Pads.

Update 2/23: Just crossed a lot of brands off the list, not sure if that was COVID and the costs of shipping and challenges with supply or just that we haven’t updated this post in awhile. Either way, sad.