Cortez - Hawkins Preserve
25 boulder problems · Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm · 6,012 ft
What's here
V0 to V4, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 25 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 23 Crag only 2
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 Graffiti Traverse, Obtuse Slab, The Other Side (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 20 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
Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm (Dakota Sandstone, Burro Canyon Formation) — sandstone, shale, conglomerate. Cretaceous, about 129 to 95 million years old.
Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate. In northwest and west-central: Lower Cretaceous. In southwest: Lower and Upper Cretaceous.
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. Every crag on this unit: Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Fm. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1956
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1956. 11 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, 1956 to 1982: USGS topoView.
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.
Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Routes
- 1 Graffiti Traverse V4-5
- 2 The Van V4
- 3 T-crack Warm-Up V0
- 4 Indoor Pinch V1-
- 5 Traverse Wall V0
- 6 Warm-Up Wall 0 V0
- 7 Warm-Up Wall 1 V0-1
- 8 Warm-Up Wall 2 V1-2
- 9 Warm-Up Wall 3 V2
- 10 Crimps On an Arête V3
- 11 Skinny Dihedral V2
- 12 Hawkins Black-on-White V3-4
- 13 Obtuse Slab V1
- 14 Beer Belly V1+
- 15 Slabby McCactus Face V0-1
- 16 The Overhang - Left V4
- 17 The Overhang - Right V3
- 18 Trig 101 V2
- 19 Don't Mind The Yucca V0
- 20 Double Chockstone V0
- 21 Buzzsaw Traverse V1-2
- 22 Buzzsaw Arete V1
- 23 The Other Side V0-1
- South Rim Finger Crack V1+
- South Rim Hand Crack V1
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.
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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 City of Cortez (local government), in Hawkins Preserve. It lies inside conservation easement.
The boundary is close. Land managed by La Plata Open Space Conservancy comes within 250 m of this point, and the point is not the rock — the wall itself may be on the other side of the line. Check which before you rely on either one's rules.
Worth checking first. PAD-US records public access to this unit as “closed”. That is about getting onto the unit at all, not about climbing, and we have not checked it against City of Cortez's own page.
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 City of Cortez'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.
Nearby, from OpenStreetMap
- Toilets
- 359 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 685 m away (map)
- Campsite
- America's Tent Lodges, 4,979 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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