Bright, colorful and yes, bouncy, Sky High Gymnastics (185 Elm St., #2), hosted a ribbon cutting on Feb. 27.

Katey LaMontagne, who owns the gym along with her husband Daniel and mom Jane O’Brien — whom she said, “I can’t thank enough” — has been involved in gymnastics for more than thirty years, having coached at many facilities. She said she wanted to open the gymnastics studio because she had some fresh ideas that from which Milford might benefit.

“This gym is really the result of wanting to have a place that’s accessible to all budgets, abilities and ages,” Katey said. “And it’s open seven days a week.”

Katey said she has seen what works well in a gym environment and what doesn’t — and likewise, what customers prefer.

As for picking a location, she said, “I know what this area needs. We could have opened in Amherst or Nashua, but I wanted to solve some problems for this community, my community.”

Katey said that as a mom staying home with her kids, there aren’t a lot of places where you can take your children that are clean.

“I want to be a place where anybody can come,” she said. “There are so many kids that can’t afford gymnastics. Some might never know a cartwheel because they just won’t. And there a lot of places where I do take my kids but they’re only for birthday parties, for example. It’s hard to find things to during the day that’s affordable.

With many return gymnasts coming in several times a week, Katey said the kids like, as do the parents.

“The kids come in and get that energy out, and they love it,” she remarked. “That’s a hallmark for me. I wanted gym to be affordable. I don’t want this to be a place where people can only afford to come once a month. I want be to think, ‘hey, we can afford to do that.'”

Katey offers discounts for kids that are in classes, and one of her biggest selling points is open play.

“We teach structured classes here which is important,” she said. “But with all this beautiful space, I want people to stay. I want parents to be able to get work done. I would never had gotten this place open if I hadn’t gone to the Y with my kids and used the time my kids were in the ‘Kids Stop’ so that I could work on my computer. I didn’t have another way to get work done with anybody watching my kids without hiring a sitter.”

Katey’s hope is that people know, “they can have a date night, and bring their kids here.”

The gym provides wide open-air viewing which allows parents to watch their kids. (Most gyms dictate that parents remain behind a Plexiglass barrier.)

“We want parents to feel comfortable,” said Katey. “And stretch out and get work done at our desks with free Wi-Fi. Siblings can play in our ‘Living Room’ area with toys and books for all ages.”

“I want people to get stuff done or take a break,” she said. “Some kids come in here and their parents are understandably tired. They’re overwhelmed. They’re on constant alert 24/7 and I say to them, ‘What will it take for you to go over there and sit down and know that you don’t have to watch them. We got this. You can go and read a book and still look up and see them there.'”

She added that, “Open Play Every Day” is there, “so that the community has a great option to drop in and burn their kids energy off; it allows kids to explore the gym while supervised and helps nervous kids get used to the gym before they join a class. That’s huge.”

As for the staff, “they have a variety of certifications, degrees, and outstanding accomplishments in addition to being great teachers,” Katey said. “They’re amazing people and Sky High wouldn’t be anything without their unique talents.”

Another benchmark of Sky High is hosting children with special needs and Katey’s goal is to partner with Special Olympics, which with hope is a work in progress.

Opportunity Networks of Amherst has already gotten involved with Sky High and Katey couldn’t be happier.

“They’re going to bring in twelve kids at a time,” she said. “And they’re going to rotate with different groups and needs. They’re going to come during open play which his great, because I don’t want the kids with special needs to isolated.”

Katey shared that the gym itself would not have been possible if not for her husband, Daniel.

“He was the one who told me he would make sure I had this gym one day,” she said. “He said ‘my dream is for you to have this gym.’ I absolutely couldn’t have done this emotionally, financially, or physically without him.”

She also touts that together, she and her husband planned practically every facet of this future place.

“For five years, every time he got a little cash saved, we would buy another mat and put it in storage,” Katey said. “Daniel also did all the construction.”

The LaMontagnes now have two 45′ long storage units, “stuffed, just waiting until we found a space to rent.”

They added that they looked at roughly 100 properties until they made the perfect landing and found the space in Milford.

Katey also got the necessary help to open Sky High through her friends and the community.

“Having people know the support that I got means so much to me,” she said. “The story of Sky High is them.”