Liberty Cap
16 routes · sandstone (Wingate Sandstone) · 5,545 ft
What's here
5.10 to 5.12, but over half of these routes are 5.10.
Counted from the 16 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
Position on wall known 16
No route here has its own point yet. The map pin is the crag. At the wall? Survey it: 30 seconds per route.
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Beauty And the Beast, Stonehenge, Irish Pride (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 13 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
Chinle Formation — clastic; siltstone; sandstone; shale. Late Triassic, about 232 to 207 million years old.
Red and reddish-brown siltstone interbedded with lenses of red sandstone and shale, limestone-pebble and shale-pellet conglomerate; lenses of grit and quartz-pebble conglomerate near base. Thickness 80-120 feet.
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Day and others, 1999, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0427). 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: Chinle Formation. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1934
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1934. 17 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, 1934 to 1981: 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 Grand Junction Area 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 · found by place name, not yet checked
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Routes
- 1 Beauty And the Beast 5.10c/d
- 2 Double Jeopardy 5.10c
- 3 St. Patrick's Day Massacre 5.10d
- 4 Whirling Dervish 5.11a
- 5 Never Cry Wolf 5.11c/d
- 6 Cool Breeze 5.11-
- 7 F/S 5.10c
- 8 Liberty Cap Tower 5.10-
- 9 Steppin' On it 5.10-
- 10 Osiris 5.12-
- 11 Kokopelli 5.11a
- 12 On Fire 5.10
- 13 Stonehenge 5.10b/c
- 14 Fire Within 5.10d
- 15 Leprechaun 5.10a
- 16 Irish Pride 5.10d
Also within 3 km
- Metamorphic Canyon571 m · 10 boulder problems · 4,973 ft
- The Gypsies893 m · 7 routes · 5,455 ft
- Terra Tower Buttress1,675 m · 9 routes · 5,913 ft
- Red Canyon1,840 m · 6 routes · 4,877 ft
- Water Tower Hill2,088 m · 17 boulder problems · 4,786 ft · South Camp
- Riggs' Hill West2,330 m · 1 route and 19 boulder problems · 4,889 ft · Riggs' Hill
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 National Park Service (federal), in Colorado National Monument. It lies inside national monument.
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.
Nobody has yet read National Park Service's own rules for this crag and written them down here, so treat the above as where you are, not as what you may do.
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