Dude's Throne
30 routes and 3 boulder problems · Boulder Creek granodiorite · 9,192 ft
What's here
5.9 to 5.13, but over half of these routes are 5.11.
Counted from the 30 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 33
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 Chili Power, Slightly Aphrodite, Dude's Jam Crack, Getting Down Before Getting Up (4 climbs, about 120 seconds) would place up to 29 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
Boulder Creek granodiorite. Paleoproterozoic, about 2,500 to 1,600 million years old.
Gray, coarse-grained, equigranular to porphyritic, massive to weakly foliated biotite±hornblende±muscovite monzogranite, granodiorite, and tonalite. Forms large intrusive body (Boulder Creek batholith) west of Boulder (Gable, 1980). Typically weathers into grayish-tan rounded outcrops. Mean U-Pb zircon date from numerous analyses is 1,716±3 Ma (W.R. Premo and K.S. Kellogg, unpub. data, 2007), which supports earlier U-Pb zircon dates of 1,725 Ma (Stern and others, 1971) and 1,721±15 Ma (Premo and Fanning, 2000)
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: Boulder Creek granodiorite. 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. 29 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, 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 Golden 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 · found by place name, not yet checked
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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
- 1 Chili Power 5.11d
- 2 Red Hot Chili Peppers 5.12c
- 3 Green Chile 5.11b/c
- 4 Jolly Rancher 5.10
- 5 Jolly Squeeze Party 5.10
- 6 Uplift Mofo Party Plan 5.11b
- 7 Major Party Plan 5.11d
- 8 White Russian 5.9
- 9 Major Dude 5.12c/d
- 10 Golden Gate 5.11d
- 11 Brass Monkey 5.12d
- 12 Dude's Dihedral 5.11b
- 13 Slightly Aphrodite 5.10-
- 14 Mighty Aphrodite 5.10
- 15 Short Dude 5.11a
- 16 Raven's Brew 5.11d
- 17 Howdy Doody Time 5.11b
- 18 Missing Link 5.11c
- 19 Open Space Cowboy 5.12a
- 20 Double Dominatrix 5.12d
- 21 Dude's Cave V2+
- 22 Dude's Abs V3-4
- 23 Impeachment Day Parade 5.11d
- 24 Dude's Jam Parade AKA The Wiessner Connect 5.11b/c
- 25 Dude's Jam Crack 5.11a
- 26 Buster Brown 5.13a
- 27 Sky Chi 5.11d
- 28 In Harmsen's Way 5.10a
- 29 Dude's Way 5.11a
- 30 Dude's Five Nine 5.9
- 31 Any Doodle Do 5.10b
- 32 Jugs Out For The Lads 5.9
- 33 Getting Down Before Getting Up V3
Also within 3 km
- Little Dude20 m · 11 routes · 9,212 ft
- Quarantine Wall77 m · 8 routes · 9,195 ft
- Rifleman Phillips Bouldering963 m · 4 boulder problems · 8,954 ft
- The Grendel1,699 m · 15 routes · 10,155 ft
- [Redacted]1,734 m · 2 routes · 9,901 ft
- Promontory Ridge/The Bear?1,780 m · 12 routes · 10,197 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 Golden Gate 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.
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
- 370 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 425 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Aspen Meadows Campground, 515 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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