Labyrinth

1 route · gneiss and schist · 6,042 ft

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The guidebook for this area

Rock Climbing Clear Creek Canyon - Kevin Capps - 3rd ed. every crag it covers

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Rock, from the geologic map

Amphibolite, hornblendite, and related rocks. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.

Dark-colored rocks composed mainly of hornblende, quartz, plagioclase, biotite, and clinopyroxene in varying amounts. Commonly consists of interlayered hornblende gneiss, amphibolite, and other gneisses, including calc-silicate gneiss. Amounts of amphibolite and hornblende in unit not uniform but always sufficient to give an unusually dark appearance.

This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Trimble and others, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-856-H). 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 100 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: Amphibolite, hornblendite, and related rocks. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1899

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1899. 30 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1899 USGS sheet covering Labyrinth — **USGS 1:125000-scale Quadrangle for West Denver, CO 1899** · U.S. Geological Survey · 1899 · 1:125,000 sheet
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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, 1899 to 1983: 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

The whole-state sheet of the 1877 atlas, scanned at full resolution by the state survey and free to download.

Colorado Geological Survey (publication HM-01-04) · Public domain · read it
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877

The first geology anyone drew of this ground. Hayden's survey mapped the state in the 1870s; these are the sheets, with the rock units coloured as they understood them then.

Internet Archive (Brigham Young University copy) · Public domain · read it
Trail and Timberline, volume 2 (1918) · Colorado Mountain Club · 1918

The Colorado Mountain Club's own magazine in its sixth year, with the club's outings and ascents as its members wrote them up at the time.

Internet Archive (Brigham Young University copy) · Public domain · read it

Free to read: public domain or government work. About Golden 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.

Golden City, C.T. - looking west · Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874 · 1870
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Hanging Rock, Clear Creek Cañon · Photochrom Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Hanging Rock, Clear Creek [Cañon] · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Mother "Grundy", Clear Creek Cañon · Photochrom Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Mother Grundy, Clear Creek Cañon · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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The Old Roadmaster, Clear Creek Cañon · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Georgetown, Colo. · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1901
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The darling little equestrian - Clear Creek Canyon, Colo., U.S.A. · 1901 · stereograph
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The picturesqueness of Clear Creek Canon, Colorado · 1901 · stereograph
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Hanging Rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado · 1903 · postcard
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Photographs near this crag

Taken within 1.5 km of this crag's map point and published under a licence that lets us show them, from Wikimedia Commons. The coordinates say where the camera was, not what it was pointed at, so some of these will be the creek or the trail rather than the rock.

Clear Creek Trail 7 · Jeffrey Beall · 2026 · 294 m from the crag's map point
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Rock climbing area at Clear Creek Canyon Park · Jeffrey Beall · 2026 · 800 m from the crag's map point
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Green Mountain (Lakewood, Colorado) · Thomson200 · 2016 · 136 m from the crag's map point
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Green Mountain - panoramio (3) · Thomson M · 2016 · 312 m from the crag's map point
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South Table Mountain - panoramio · Thomson M · 2016 · 339 m from the crag's map point
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Lookout Mountain North View, CO · Ligoweth · 2011 · 863 m from the crag's map point
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Denver cityscape from Lookout Mountain, 2011 · Ligoweth · 2011 · 866 m from the crag's map point
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Fog in the Valley, Candle in the Sky (12603079745) · Zach Dischner · 2013 · 1,145 m from the crag's map point
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Mount Zion summit - panoramio · Thomson M · 2016 · 318 m from the crag's map point
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North Table Mountain - panoramio · Thomson M · 2016 · 331 m from the crag's map point
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Clear Creek Trail at Tunnel 1 Trailhead area · Jeffrey Beall · 2026 · 375 m from the crag's map point
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Goldenpanoramabw4 · OneofThem from United States · 2005 · 484 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

1 Daedalus 5.6
★ 1.0 · 2 TradTop rope Crag only

Also within 3 km

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.

Sun today

sun 08:10-15:00

Wall faces S (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.

Deep terrain: the skyline averages 20° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.

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Rain & forecast

No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 39.75370 N, 105.25043 W (Labyrinth). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Jefferson County Open Space (local government), in Clear Creek Canyon Park. It lies inside local park.

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 Jefferson County Parks & Open Space land

Climbing permit: Installing fixed hardware on a new route requires a permit: a Fixed Hardware Application, vetted by the Fixed Hardware Review Committee before the Climbing Committee decides.
Hours: Unlawful to be on Open Space land from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, unless posted otherwise.
Rules: JCPOS does not install, maintain or inspect hardware related to rock climbing. Climbing ethics differ by park -- Clear Creek Canyon, the Cathedral Spires and the South Platte each have their own published guidelines.
Overnight: Camping by advance permit only, obtained online at least 24 hours ahead -- not at the park, headquarters or by phone. Only White Ranch and Reynolds Parks, tent-only.
Dogs: Dogs must be on a leash ten feet or less in length and under physical control.

Read on Jefferson County Parks & Open Space'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: 472 m away (map)
Mapped parking: 399 m away (map)
Campsite: Clear Creek RV Park, 1,571 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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