Apache Peak
1 route · Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group · 12,270 ft
How well located
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.
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. 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 1915
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1915. 27 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, 1915 to 1984: USGS topoView.
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.
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · the record · placed by its coordinates
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Routes
Also within 3 km
- Apache Peak367 m · 10 routes · 13,431 ft · Indian Peaks
- Navajo Peak949 m · 3 routes · 13,287 ft · Indian Peaks
- Iroquois Peak1,056 m · 1 route · 12,237 ft · Indian Peaks
- Lone Eagle Peak1,510 m · 7 routes · 11,842 ft · Indian Peaks
- Peak 12,8781,585 m · 2 routes · 12,461 ft · Indian Peaks
- Shoshoni Peak1,711 m · 5 routes · 12,959 ft · Indian Peaks
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.
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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 wilderness area, 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.
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