About Iron Passport

Who this is for

If you lift, run, or train and you're on the road — for work, a trip, or a relocation — Iron Passport helps you find a real gym in an unfamiliar city, see what a day pass actually costs, and decide whether it's worth your workout before you show up. We built it because hotel gyms are usually a folding bench and a treadmill, and figuring out where lifters actually train in a new city used to mean scrolling reviews on five different apps.

How gym data is sourced

Every gym in the directory starts from a real, independently verifiable source, not a model's guess. Listings are seeded from OpenStreetMap data (with Google Places used as a secondary discovery source for chain locations), then enriched with AI to fill in descriptions, amenities, and category detail. New and AI-touched listings sit in a draft state and require human review and approval before they go live — nothing is auto-published, and we do not invent gyms that don't exist. Member reviews and ratings on gym pages are real, user-submitted reviews, not generated text.

How gyms are scored

Every ranked gym gets a composite score out of 100, built from eight weighted criteria. The weighting reflects what actually matters for a working workout — equipment and cleanliness carry the most weight; extras like classes carry the least.

The full methodology is public — the same eight criteria and weights are documented in our llms.txt file for AI assistants and researchers, and applied consistently across every city and gym page.

Editorial policy

• AI is used to help draft gym descriptions and city guides, but a human reviews and approves every draft before it publishes.
• There is no pay-for-placement. A gym's ranking is not for sale. Gym owners can claim their listing for free to correct hours, pricing, and details; the paid Gym Pro tier only affects whether a gym accepts first-party guest-pass requests through the site, and any such placement is clearly labeled — it does not change organic ranking.
• Reviews are from real users. We don't fabricate ratings, and gym pages omit review counts and dates entirely rather than make them up.

Who runs Iron Passport

Iron Passport is operated by BearDuckHornEmpire LLC.