Buffalo Creek Bouldering
47 routes and 42 boulder problems · granite (Pikes Peak Granite) · 8,032 ft
What's here
5.6 to 5.12, mostly around 5.11.
VB to V5, mostly around V0.
Counted from the 89 climbs here that carry a grade. Shown only where there are at least 5 of them — below that the shape is noise.
How well located
Base placed (one source) 7 Position on wall known 25 Crag only 57
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Guano.1, Guano.9 (The Real Green Lantern) (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Guano Rock) would place up to 7 more climbs between them. Survey the wall →
“Up to” because the estimate between two surveyed routes is only used when they turn out to be close enough together on the ground.
Rock, from the geologic map
Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group) (Pikes Peak Granite, Mount Rosa Granite, Windy Point Granite, Redskin Granite) — granite, alkali feldspar granite, minor quartz monzonite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.
Includes Pikes Peak, Mount Rosa, Windy Point, and Redskin Granites and unnamed rocks
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:500,000 sheet (Horton and others, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052). The point can be a few hundred metres from the rock, a cliff often stands on the line between two units, and at that scale a line on the map is about 500 m wide on the ground, so the wall itself may be the neighbouring unit. The rock named at the top of this page comes from the public geology of this area; this card is the map's answer. Every crag on this unit: Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group). Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1893
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1893. 31 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.
USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Public domain, U.S. Geological Survey. The sheet shows the ground as the survey found it then, which is why a trail or road you know may be missing. Every sheet over this point, 1893 to 1994: USGS topoView.
In print since 1877
1877 Geologic Map of Colorado (Hayden), high-resolution scan · F. V. Hayden; scan by the Colorado Geological Survey · 1877
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877
Free to read: public domain or government work. About South Platte as a whole, not this wall. More in the reading room.
From the archives
Photographs of this area held by the Library of Congress, oldest first. Every one carries the Library's own "no known restrictions on publication"; anything else is left out.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
A- and B- Side Crack Boulder
- 1 A Side Crack V0-
- 2 B Side Crack V1-
Abinadi Rock
- 1 Abinadi.Extensions V0
- 2 Abinadi.5 V0
- 3 Abinadi.4 V0
- 4 Abinadi.3 V0
- 5 Abinadi.2 V0
- 6 Abinadi.1 V0
Almost Asshole Rock Boulder Field
- 1 Show Me The Honey! 5.11
- 2 Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Yam 5.11+
Campsite 8 Crack Wall
- 1 Crack A 5.10
- 2 Crack B - Flaring Seam 5.12-
- 3 Crack C - Hands 5.9
- 4 Crack D - Right Angling Hands 5.7
- 5 Crack E - Hands to OW 5.8+
- 6 Crack F - Fingers to Hands 5.10+
Dalle D'arbre Boulder
- 1 Now or Never V2
Guano Rock
- 1 Guano.1 V0
- 2 Guano.2 V0
- 3 Guano.3 V0
- 4 Guano.4 V0
- 5 Guano.5 V0
- 6 Guano.6 V0
- 7 Guano.7 V0
- 8 Guano.8 V0
- 9 Guano.9 (The Real Green Lantern) V0
Elsewhere at this crag
- Smoke a Fatty 5.10b
- Agni Kai 5.12-
- An Anemone Enemy 5.12
- Autumn The Human 5.10
- Autumn's Arete V1
- Autumn's Traverse V3
- Autumn's Traverse (full) V5
- Baby Yoda 5.11
- Big Richard V3
- Big Wave Dave 5.11+
- Big World Lotta Smells V1
- Boogie Board 5.8
- Buffalo Creek Bangerz (aka One Last Fix) 5.8
- Butt Cheese V2
- Butt Cheese Grater V5
- Campground Boulder V1 V1
- Campground Boulder V2 Center V2
- Campground Boulder V2 Right V2-
- Candy Corn Crack 5.12-
- Classic Arete V3-4
- Consolation Crack 5.9+
- Crystals Are A Girls Best Friend V1
- Dirty Dancing V3
- Dogs in Space 5.11+
- Dystopian Dream Girl 5.12+
- Fear of Slabs V0-
- Feel the Fern V1
- Freaking Out the Neighborhood 5.11d
- Futt Bucker V4-5
- Hang Ten 5.9-
- Hasta Lasagna, Baby 5.12-
- Highball Fingercrack 5.12d
- Home Slice 5.11-
- I Ain't Afraid of No Toast 5.11a
- In Rainbows 5.12-
- Let 'er Buck 5.11
- Moss Monster 5.9+
- Outrageous Fun (Stand) 5.11
- Outrageous Fun (sit) 5.12+
- Owl or Nothing V3
- Play The Greatest Hits 5.11-
- Professor Poopypants 5.10-
- Pseudotsuga V1
- Quadruple Cracks 5.9
- Right Face V4
- Schoolroom Crack 5.6
- Secret Sauce V1
- Shake It Off (aka Shotgun Express) 5.10+
- South Crack 5.8
- Spicy Meatball! 5.8+
- Split Decision 5.11
- Sweet Corn 5.10d
- The Possum Cookbook 5.10
- The Staircase V-easy
- Thumb's Up V3-4
- Tour Guide Tyler 5.11
- Trailside Offwidth 5.7+
- Tree Crack 5.10+
- Unknown V2
- Urethral Sounding V4
- Warm-Up 5.9
- Witness the Thiccness 5.11-
- Yuk Foo 5.11+
Also within 3 km
- Da Butts618 m · 11 routes · 8,189 ft
- Asshole Rock969 m · 5 routes · 8,483 ft
- Almost Asshole Rock1,401 m · 3 routes · 7,831 ft
- Little Scraggy Dome1,591 m · 12 routes · 7,887 ft
Straight line between the two crags' map points, each of which can be some way from its rock. For when this wall is full, or the sun has found it.
Photos from climbers
No photos here yet. If you're at the crag, yours would be the first.
Taken at the crag by climbers and published as they sent them. Each one's own location had to be within 0.5 km of this crag before we accepted it. See something that shouldn't be here? Use Report this photo under it and it's hidden at once. Anything else, write to us.
Conditions reported
Nothing reported recently.
Report what you see
Reports are dated and fade on their own: wet rock after 3 days, a bad bolt after a year. No names, no text.
Access & safety
The map point for this crag is on land managed by Pike National Forest (federal). It lies inside national forest.
Land manager from USGS PAD-US (public domain), read 2026-09-29. It is the manager of the crag's map point, which can be a long way from the wall. What you may do on the rock is the manager's to say, not ours.
Rules for all Pike-San Isabel National Forests land
- Fees
- No entrance fee for the Pike-San Isabel National Forests or the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands. Fees apply at campgrounds and day-use areas operated by the forest's concessionaire, paid on site.
- Overnight
- On the Leadville, Salida and San Carlos districts of the San Isabel, camping at any location within the same 20-mile radius for more than 14 days in a continuous 30-day period is prohibited. No camping within 100 feet of water outside a developed or designated site.
Read on Pike-San Isabel National Forests's own pages, checked 2026-09-29 by John Crawford. What they require, in full, or their own climbing page. These apply to the manager's whole holding; anything specific to this crag is above.
Nearby, from OpenStreetMap
- Toilets
- 1,178 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 781 m away (map)
- Campsite
- 550 - 2, 677 m away (map)
Distances are a straight line from this crag's map point, which can itself be hundreds of metres off; a road may be much longer. Mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), so a toilet missing here may simply be unmapped. Parking here is what OSM has drawn nearby, not a guidebook's directions.
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