A local favorite minutes from downtown, Boulder Canyon has a veritable ton of climbing with over 1,000 established routes. The huge range of climbing available is all on grippy granite and spread throughout a 13 mile stretch through the canyon. The variety of climbs including all types of sport and ...

Cannon City is might as well be called Pleasantville with its 325 annual days of sunshine basking in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The weather is consistently much warmer than any other city in Colorado and the climbing isn't half bad either. In fact, Cannon City is a very popular fall, wint...

Carter Lake is a classic bouldering area that has been re-popularized by climbers from Boulder in the last decade. There is a ton of rock here and first ascents are still waiting to be had. The first thing to know about Carter Lake is that it is a beautiful place to come bouldering while it borders ...

Clear Creek Canyon is located just next to Golden, Colorado, (home of the Coors Brewing Company) and about 20 minutes from Denver. The rock here is good solid limestone conglomerate and there is a ton of challenging sport routes. Clear Creek is an exceptional place to come if 5.12 - .14d sounds like...

Colorado National Monument offers some truly great "Western" climbing on sandstone spires and exposed walls. Predominately a trad area, the monument still has a lot of unexplored climbing terrain which is just calling for attention. Located a little to the south of I-70 and between Grand Junction an...

This is a fairly new area with a ton of challenging routes and many three-star rated climbs. The rock is a very fine grained granite and has all types of fun features from roofs, books, cracks, edges, and flakes. The walls here are mostly on the scenic but remote south and east facing slopes of Devi...

This state park is one of the real gems of rock climbing around Boulder. The steep conglomerate sandstone walls are solid and offer up over 700 established climbs. Of these climbs, almost all of them have a distinctive Eldorado flavor to them meaning they are funky and technical at odd moments and i...

This high canyon has so much climbing and bouldering it will blow your mind. The canyon is a great place for beginner climbers because there are a lot of low-angle sport routes set in a nice scenic environment. The majority of climbs fall in the beginner or advanced range with few 5.8-5.10's. The So...

This is the place to come if you are looking for bouldering. "Classic" seems to be the word that best describes the many problems filling the gambit from v0-10. There are beginner problems here but the difficulty for folks learning is that the rock is very gritty sandstone that will tear through sof...

This area is a slabby mix of mostly trad and some sport among the rocks. The area is beautiful and has many creative possibilities for climbs. Again, the rock is good ‘ol conglomerate sandstone.