Supremacy Rock
17 routes and 1 boulder problem · sandstone (Fountain Formation) · 6,128 ft
What's here
5.4 to 5.13, mostly around 5.9.
Counted from the 13 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 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 Quartzite Ridge, Overhanging Arete, Supremacy Crack (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.
The guidebook for this area
Eldorado Canyon: A Climbing Guide - Steve Levin - 4th ed. - 2024 every crag it covers
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Rock, from the geologic map
Quartzite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.
White, gray, and purplish-gray, medium- to coarse-grained quartzite and quartz-rich gneiss and schist. Locally conglomeratic with clasts of coarser grained, lighter colored quartzite that are commonly tectonically stretched. Generally contains as much as a few percent muscovite and traces of garnet, magnetite-ilmenite, and epidote. Unit includes muscovite-quartz gneiss and schist layers and some calc-silicate gneiss lenses. Forms a large, synformal body (Coal Creek quartzite) in southern part of Eldorado Springs 7.5-minute quadrangle (Wells, 1967) and northern part of Ralston Buttes quadrangle (Sheridan and others, 1967); most contacts with Twin Spruce Monzogranite (YXgT) are sheared, and relative age of quartzite and intrusive rocks is uncertain. Gable (1980) and Wells and others (1964) described intrusive contacts between rocks of the Boulder Creek batholith and quartzite. However, preliminary detrital zircon evidence suggests quartzite is younger than the batholith (J.N. Aleinikoff, unpub. data, 2007), a suggestion supported by structural and stratigraphic evidence (McCoy and others, 2005). If this interpretation is correct, the depositional age of quartzite is less than 1,704±6 Ma
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Kellogg and others, 2008, USGS Geologic Investigations Series 3000). 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: Quartzite. 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. 31 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.
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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
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877
Trail and Timberline, volume 2 (1918) · Colorado Mountain Club · 1918
Free to read: public domain or government work. About Boulder 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.
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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.
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Routes
- 1 Quartzite Ridge Easy 5th
- 2 Northeast Arete 5.7
- 3 Supremacy Slab 5.9+
- 4 Zig-zagging Jews 5.4
- 5 Right Wall 5.4
- 6 Slabbery 5.7+
- 7 Simple Simon Slab 5.6
- 8 Northwest Arete 5.8+
- 9 West Face [Supremacy Rock] 5.10b
- 10 Time Out Easy 5th
- 11 Play Time Easy 5th
- 12 Route 0 Easy 5th
- 13 Overhanging Arete 5.9+
- 14 Cold War 5.12c
- 15 The Web 5.13b
- 16 Supremacy Crack 5.11c
- Supremacy Girdle 5.9
- Lava Outside V-easy
Also within 3 km
- Cartoon Crag56 m · 12 routes · 6,182 ft
- Quartzite Crag127 m · 1 route · 6,207 ft
- Eldorado Canyon Bouldering268 m · 134 boulder problems · 6,007 ft
- The West Ridge281 m · 251 routes and 3 boulder problems · 6,602 ft
- Hawk-Eagle Ridge284 m · 71 routes · 6,281 ft
- Kloof Alcove362 m · 12 routes · 6,344 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 Colorado Parks & Wildlife (state), in Eldorado Canyon State Park. It lies inside state 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.
- Managed by
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife (Eldorado Canyon State Park)
- Fees
- $10-12/vehicle (CO plate), $15-17 (out of state), $4/person on foot or bike. Annual vehicle pass $80, family $120, Aspen Leaf (64+) $70.
- Reservations
- Timed-entry vehicle reservation required Saturdays, Sundays and summer holidays, May 1-Oct 1 (cpwshop.com, 30 days ahead, 2-hour windows). Not needed on foot, by bike or on the free Eldo Shuttle.
- Hours
- Park: sunrise-sunset daily. Visitor center 9am-4pm, closed Thursdays.
- Dogs
- Leashed dogs permitted.
- Parking
- No reliable cell signal at the gate to book on arrival; reserve before you drive.
- County
- Boulder County
Checked 2026-09-29 against source 1, source 2, source 3. Rules change: confirm with the land manager.
Rules for all Colorado Parks & Wildlife land
- Fees
- Every Colorado state park requires an entrance pass for motor vehicles. A daily vehicle pass is $4 to $17 depending on the park; an individual pass covers entry on foot or bike.
- Reservations
- Eldorado Canyon runs timed-entry vehicle reservations on summer weekends and holidays; see the park's own page. Other parks do not require one to enter.
- Permits
- A daily pass is valid until noon on the day after purchase. The annual Keep Colorado Wild pass is $29 and is bought with a vehicle registration.
Read on Colorado Parks & Wildlife'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
- 138 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 45 m away, 10 spaces (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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