Goat Rock
18 routes · Talus deposits · 9,364 ft
What's here
5.8 to 5.12, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 18 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 17 Crag only 1
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 Bad, Bad Goat, Goats on the Fringe, High Flying Goats (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 14 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
Talus deposits. Quaternary, younger than 781,000 years.
Angular pebbles to large boulders deposited chiefly by rock and snow avalanche, rockfall, rock slide, and debris flow at base of cliffs and steep slopes where debris forms aprons, cones, and fan-shaped deposits. Locally includes debris flow and rubbly scree deposits. In cirques, locally includes tills of the Satanta Peak and Triple Lakes advances of Benedict (1985), about 12–10 ka (Davis, 1988), and tills of Holocene age near cirque headwalls (Benson and others, 2007). Much of the talus in glaciated valleys and cirques postdates the retreat of Pinedale ice. Some of the talus derived from the Fountain Formation (Phf) south of Boulder may be of middle Pleistocene age. Estimated thickness 3–15 m
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. Every crag on this unit: Talus deposits. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1924
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1924. 28 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, 1924 to 1983: USGS topoView.
Routes
- 1 Bad, Bad Goat 5.12a
- 2 Sacrificial Goat 5.12b/c
- 3 Supergoat 5.11+
- 4 Goat Goes Up, Must Come Down 5.10d
- 5 Satyr 5.11c
- 6 Clan Of The Goatmen 5.11a
- 7 No Goats, No Glory 5.12a
- 8 Ram 5.10c
- 9 Empire of the Goats 5.12b/c
- 10 Capra Diem 5.8
- 11 Olympic Free Style Goat Toss 5.11
- 12 Goats in the Hood 5.12d
- 13 Goats on the Fringe 5.8
- 14 BaaaD To The Bone 5.9+
- 15 Solitary Goat 5.8
- 16 Eric The Goat 5.10a
- 17 High Flying Goats 5.8
- Goat Arete 5.12
Also within 3 km
- Beaver Beach144 m · 6 routes · 9,242 ft · Beaver Beach
- Main Wall283 m · 12 routes · 10,034 ft · Halidome, The
- The Eyrie Sector521 m · 3 routes · 9,837 ft · Halidome, The
- Chuting Gallery540 m · 10 routes · 10,192 ft · Halidome, The
- Ra620 m · 15 routes · 9,975 ft · Ra
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 Arapaho 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 Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests land
- Fees
- No entrance fee for the forest. Some locations require a reservation, pass, permit or day-use fee.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in a 30-day period, or more than 30 days in a 365-day period, is prohibited across the forests and the Pawnee National Grassland. Dispersed camping is within 300 feet of most Forest Service roads, on National Forest land; the MVUM shows which.
Read on Arapaho and Roosevelt 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
- Toilets
- 1,542 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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