O2 Fitness Holly Springs Is Closing. Here's Every Gym Nearby, Mapped.

Most weeks I book a ClassPass slot at O2 Fitness in Holly Springs, then rotate over to O2 Brier Creek when my schedule shifts. So when word started going around that the Holly Springs location is closing, I wanted to find out what’s actually going on (and, more usefully, where everyone is supposed to go instead).

The short version: it’s true. After nearly ten years, O2 Fitness Holly Springs closes Sunday, July 26, 2026. If you’re a member trying to figure out your next move, I built an interactive map of every gym within about 8 miles of Holly Springs Town Center with type, pricing, and whether it’s on ClassPass.

Every gym near Holly Springs, color-coded by type with pricing and amenities (and a quick poll on where members are headed). Open the interactive map →

Scroll down for the map in full, or read on for the story first.

What we actually know about the closure

O2 announced it on the club’s own Facebook page, opening with “after nearly 10 incredible years together.” A member email quoted in the r/HollySpringsNC thread puts the final day of operation at Sunday, July 26, 2026, and says Holly Springs members will be transferred to O2 Fitness Morrisville–Cary Parkway. Your membership stays valid at every other O2 location except Grove 98 and Briar Chapel.

A couple of things are worth flagging as not confirmed. The Reddit thread has people speculating that a lease or rent dispute is behind it, and others guessing a TJ Maxx is taking the space.

O2’s Triangle footprint, and a pattern

O2 Fitness is a Raleigh-grown regional chain, not a national brand. It started in Raleigh in 2002 and now runs more than 20 clubs across North Carolina and South Carolina under O2 Holdings, part of founder Michael Olander’s MDO Holdings. There’s no outside private-equity owner that I could find; it’s still founder-run.

Here’s the part that caught my attention. Holly Springs isn’t a one-off. O2 closed its Raleigh–Seaboard Station club in April 2025, telling the News & Observer it had “exhausted every avenue to stay in downtown Raleigh.” Back in 2022 it shut two Wilmington locations at once. So in the last few years O2 has both opened new “Signature” clubs (Grove 98 in Wake Forest, Briar Chapel near Chapel Hill) and closed established ones. It’s pruning and planting at the same time.

You can see the whole NC footprint, including the two closures, on the O2 Network tab of the map below.

Why mid-market gyms keep getting squeezed

This is the part where I’m reasoning from the general economics, so read it as informed opinion rather than inside knowledge of O2’s books.

O2 sits in the mid-market: more than a budget gym, less than a luxury club. That’s a genuinely hard place to be right now, because it’s getting pressured from three directions at once.

From below, budget chains. Planet Fitness starts at $15/month and Crunch advertises plans from under $10. When your neighbor pays a fifth of what you do, your gym has to justify the gap every month.
From above, premium clubs. Life Time Cary is probably the nicest gym in the area (resort-style indoor and outdoor pools, sauna, pickleball, recovery) and prices like it, starting around $199/month. The closer Life Time Apex is more modest at $79/month (sauna and recovery, no pool), but both sell an experience a mid-market club can’t quite match.
From the side, aggregators like ClassPass and Wellhub. These let you sample many gyms and studios instead of committing to one. I’m a walking example: I use ClassPass to rotate between clubs (O2 Holly Springs is one of them) instead of holding a single-gym membership at all.

Layer on the real estate. Gyms need big floor plates, parking, locker rooms, and expensive buildouts, and they often pay lower rent per square foot than the retail that could replace them. In a hot Town Center, a landlord doing the math on a lease renewal has options. (Whether that’s what happened here, again, isn’t confirmed.)

Where to go instead: every gym near Holly Springs, mapped

Enough backstory. If your gym is closing, you want a plan B. So I pulled together every gym, studio, and box within about 8 miles of Holly Springs Town Center into one interactive map. Filter by type (big-box, budget, CrossFit, HIIT, yoga and Pilates, boutique), toggle to show only what’s on ClassPass or Wellhub, and click any pin for pricing and amenities.

A few standouts if you’re deciding where to walk in next:

Cheapest: Planet Fitness on Matthews Drive is the budget default, and there’s an Anytime Fitness on Sunset Lake Road if you want 24/7 access closer to a smaller-gym feel.
Closest like-for-like: For a full-service big-box that feels most like O2, the Kraft Family YMCA in Apex and Onelife Fitness at Beaver Creek are the nearest matches, and Gold’s Gym and ClubWorx cover Fuquay-Varina.
Class people: If you went to O2 mostly for group fitness, Orangetheory and Pure Barre are right in the Grand Hill corridor, CrossFit HSP is downtown, and there’s an F45, a HOTWORX, and a couple of Pilates studios within a few minutes.
On a budget and want variety: Skip the single membership entirely (see below).

The ClassPass option (what I actually do)

If there’s a silver lining to a gym closing, it’s that it forces the question a lot of us should ask anyway: do I even want a single-gym membership?

I’ve been using ClassPass for a few months now, rotating between O2 Holly Springs and O2 Brier Creek roughly weekly. The pitch is simple: instead of one club, you get credits you can spend across a whole network of gyms and studios. When O2 Holly Springs closes, I lose that one pin on the map, but I keep everything else (including O2 Brier Creek, where I already go). Wellhub (formerly Gympass) works the same way and is often available as an employer benefit.

One thing worth checking: you may be able to pay for ClassPass or a gym membership with HSA or FSA dollars if you have a qualifying medical reason (services like Truemed exist to set that up).

That’s the honest answer to “what do I do now” for a lot of O2 members: you don’t necessarily need to replace one gym with one gym.

Frequently asked questions

Is O2 Fitness Holly Springs really closing? Yes. O2 announced it on the club’s Facebook page, and a member email quoted on Reddit confirms a final operating date.

When is the last day? Sunday, July 26, 2026, after nearly ten years at Holly Springs Town Center (256 Grand Hill Place).

What happens to my membership? Per the quoted member email, Holly Springs members transfer to O2 Fitness Morrisville–Cary Parkway, and your membership stays valid at all other O2 locations except Grove 98 and Briar Chapel. Confirm the details with O2 directly.

Why is it closing? O2 hasn’t given a public reason. Speculation about a lease dispute or a TJ Maxx replacing it is circulating on Reddit but is not confirmed by any official source.

What’s the closest gym to the O2 Holly Springs location? Within walking-map distance you’ve got Orangetheory, Pure Barre, and CrossFit HSP in the Grand Hill area; Planet Fitness and Club Pilates near Sunset Lake; and Anytime Fitness on Sunset Lake Road. Use the map above to sort by distance.

Is there a cheaper gym in Holly Springs? Yes. Planet Fitness starts at $15/month and is the budget option locally; the town-run Hunt Fitness Center is cheaper still if you just need equipment and don’t care about classes.

The bottom line

O2 Holly Springs closing is a bummer if it was your gym, but Holly Springs is not short on options. Pull up the gym finder map, filter for what you actually use, and you’ll probably find something closer (or cheaper) than you expected. If I got anything wrong or your favorite spot is missing, let me know and I’ll update it.

What we actually know about the closure

O2’s Triangle footprint, and a pattern

Why mid-market gyms keep getting squeezed

Where to go instead: every gym near Holly Springs, mapped

The ClassPass option (what I actually do)

Frequently asked questions

The bottom line

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