Heaven's Gate
38 routes and 6 boulder problems · granite · 8,973 ft
What's here
5.6 to 5.14, mostly around 5.12.
V1 to V10, but over half of these boulder problems are V1.
Counted from the 44 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 43
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at The Happy Pier, Quisling, 22 Project (3 climbs, about 90 seconds on Emerald Isle, The) 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.
The guidebook for this area
Elevenmile Canyon Rock Climbing Guide - Stewart M. Green every crag it covers
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Rock, from the geologic map
Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group (Silver Plume Granite, Sherman Granite, Cripple Creek Granite, St. Kevin Granite, Vernal Mesa Granite, Curecanti Granite, Eolus Granite, Trimble Granite) — alkali feldspar granite, granite, minor quartz monzonite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.
Includes Silver Plume, Sherman, Cripple Creek, St. Kevin, Vernal Mesa, Curecanti, Eolus, and Trimble Granites or Quartz Monzonites; also, San Isabel Granite of Boyer (1962) and unnamed granitic rocks
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. 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: Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1894
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1894. 30 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, 1894 to 1994: 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 South Platte 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 · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
Emerald Isle, The
- 1 The Happy Pier 5.11c
- 2 Therapist 5.11b/c
- 3 The Compactor 5.7
- 4 Death Star Compactor 5.8+
- 5 Laura's Arete 5.9
- 6 Storm Warning 5.8+
- 7 Adult Supervision 5.10a
- 8 Ground Bound Hounds 5.11c
- 9 Whiskey Demise 5.13a
- 10 Whiskey Sunrise 5.12c
- 11 Slack Attack 5.11d
- 12 Lumberjack HiJinks 5.8
- 13 Quisling 5.12b
- 14 The Photo Route 5.7
- 15 Total Levitation 5.10b
- 16 Total Devastation 5.14a
- 17 Morass Supreme 5.12a
- 18 Two Scoops of Drill Dust 5.10c
- 19 Mustache Ride 5.7
- 20 Devil in the White City 5.10b
- 21 20 Project 5.12d
- 22 21 Project 5.13a
- 23 22 Project 5.13b
Inception Wall
- 1 Inception 5.13c
- 2 River of Dreams 5.13b/c
- 3 After School Special 5.13a
Parking Lot, The
- 1 V1 V1
- 2 Pizza and RedBull V3
- 3 Inganno V1+
- 4 V9 V9
- 5 Tricks of the Trade V10-11
- 6 In Your Head V1
Plebian Wall, The
- 1 London Arete 5.12a
- 2 Intercontinental 5.10b
- 3 Alley Cat 5.11c
- 4 Premonition aka Lauren's Overhang 5.11a
- 5 Arco Arena 5.12b
- 6 Shotgun Piñata 5.12c
- 7 Buddha Belly 5.12d
- 8 Fourier Transform 5.13a
- 9 Nathan's Arete 5.12a
- 10 The Funnel 5.10c
- 11 For the People 5.6
Elsewhere at this crag
- The Infanta 5.13b
Also within 3 km
- Elevenmile Dome2,442 m · 27 routes · 8,108 ft
- Knome Dome aka Water Dome2,912 m · 7 routes · 8,070 ft
- Bigot Rock2,999 m · 1 route · 8,060 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 Pike National Forest (federal). It lies inside national forest.
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 Pike-San Isabel National Forests land
- Fees
- No entrance fee for the Pike-San Isabel National Forests or the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands. Fees apply at campgrounds and day-use areas operated by the forest's concessionaire, paid on site.
- Overnight
- On the Leadville, Salida and San Carlos districts of the San Isabel, camping at any location within the same 20-mile radius for more than 14 days in a continuous 30-day period is prohibited. No camping within 100 feet of water outside a developed or designated site.
Read on Pike-San Isabel National Forests'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
- Campsite
- Unnamed, 2,006 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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