Burro Wall
20 routes · limestone (Leadville Limestone) · 6,569 ft
What's here
5.10 to 5.12, but over half of these routes are 5.12.
Counted from the 20 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 20
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 Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies, Burro Quality, Spandex Ballet (3 climbs, about 90 seconds) would place up to 17 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
Leadville Limestone, Williams Canyon Limestone , Manitou Limestone, and Sawatch Quartzite (Leadville Limestone, Williams Canyon Limestone , Manitou Limestone, Sawatch Quartzite) — limestone, minor quartzite. Paleozoic, about 508 to 337 million years old.
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: Leadville Limestone, Williams Canyon Limestone , Manitou Limestone, and Sawatch Quartzite. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.
On the map since 1906
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1906. 19 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, 1906 to 1981: 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 Glenwood Springs 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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2 more at the Library of Congress.
Routes
- 1 Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies 5.12a
- 2 La Obsesion 5.12c
- 3 Big Blue 5.12c
- 4 Not My Choss To Bare 5.11a
- 5 The Marauders 5.12b
- 6 Beam Me Up, Scotty 5.12c
- 7 Doug 5.10b
- 8 Hollowed Ground 5.10b/c
- 9 Paleo 5.10b
- 10 Mexican Radio 5.10b
- 11 Nothing Comes Between Me and My Calvins 5.11b
- 12 Princeton Girl 5.11b
- 13 Burro Quality 5.11c
- 14 Swagga Like Us 5.12b
- 15 Boxelder 5.12a
- 16 Some Kind of Monster 5.12b
- 17 Sand People Cometh 5.12a
- 18 Sweet Choss O' Mine 5.12a/b
- 19 Appetite For Construction 5.11c
- 20 Spandex Ballet 5.11b
Also within 3 km
- Fortress of Solitude239 m · 20 routes · 6,364 ft
- Windy Point239 m · 2 routes · 6,364 ft
- Pup Tent of Solitude1,141 m · 45 routes · 6,420 ft
- Main Elk Crag1,177 m · 65 routes · 6,499 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.
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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 White River 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 White River National Forest land
- Rules
- The forest strongly recommends dispersed campers pack out solid human waste using an approved disposable or self-contained system rather than burying it in a cathole.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in any continuous 30-day period is prohibited, counted from the first day of occupancy. Some places allow dispersed camping only at designated sites and some run a shorter 7-day limit in summer.
Read on White River National Forest'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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