Hobo Castle Area
9 boulder problems · Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Formation · 4,824 ft
What's here
V0 to V8, mostly around V3.
Counted from the 9 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) 1 Position on wall known 6 Crag only 2
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Spare Change, Rainbow Demon (2 climbs, about 60 seconds) would place up to 4 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 Formation (Dakota Sandstone, Burro Canyon Formation) — sedimentary; clastic; sandstone; carbonaceous sand, shale, coal beds, and chert-pebble conglomerate. Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 100 million years old.
Dakota Sandstone: yellowish-brown and gray friable to quartzitic sandstone and conglomeratic sandstone and interbedded gray to black carbonaceous shale. Contains a few thin very lenticular coal beds. Plant impressions commoon; basal conglomerate is locally present. Thickness 100-200 ft. Burro Canyon Formation: white, gray, and buff fine- to coarse-grained sandstone interbedded with green and purplish siltstone, shale, and mudstone, and thin beds of impure limestone. Sandstone is locally conglomeratic, particularly at base. Thickness a few feet to 125 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. Every crag on this unit: Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Formation. 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. 14 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 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.
Routes
Also within 3 km
- Main Area109 m · 42 boulder problems · 4,732 ft
- D-Shacks Cliffband142 m · 1 route and 22 boulder problems · 4,842 ft
- Charm Boulder389 m · 2 boulder problems · 4,823 ft · Bullet Hole Boulder Area
- Bullet Hole Boulder395 m · 3 routes and 2 boulder problems · 4,759 ft · Bullet Hole Boulder Area
- Overhang Boulder409 m · 5 boulder problems · 4,753 ft · Bullet Hole Boulder Area
- The Other Side416 m · 1 boulder problem · 4,693 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 City of Grand Junction (local government), in Three Sisters Bike 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.
Nobody has yet read City of Grand Junction'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
- 237 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 225 m away (map)
- Campsite
- The Camp, 2,436 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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