Matt Damon on the Side of the Road Boulder
10 boulder problems · Dawson Formation and Arapahoe Formation · 6,037 ft
What's here
V0 to V3, but over half of these boulder problems are V1.
Counted from the 10 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 10
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 Traversing Matt Damon, Ben Affleck (2 climbs, about 60 seconds) would place up to 8 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
Dawson Formation and Arapahoe Formation (Dawson Formation, Arapahoe Formation). Maastrichtian, about 69 to 66 million years old.
Arkosic sandstone, siltstone, claystone, and (or) minor amounts of conglomerate. Where unit underlies the Denver Formation, it is called the Arapahoe Formation. Where Denver Formation intertongues and pinches out to the south and east, the unit is called the Dawson Formation. Forms most of bedrock between Denver and Colorado Springs. As much as 610 m thick (Scott and Wobus, 1973). A conglomerate at the base of the Arapahoe Formation is an important aquifer in the Denver Area.
This is the map unit under this crag's map point, read from the 1:100,000 sheet (Trimble and others, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-856-H). 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: Dawson Formation and Arapahoe Formation. 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. 25 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.
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.
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Routes
Also within 3 km
- Roog's Wall1,569 m · 7 boulder problems · 6,119 ft · Roog's Wall
- The Millenium Boulder2,234 m · 16 boulder problems · 6,338 ft · Matthews-Winters Park
- The Other Boulder2,325 m · 3 boulder problems · 6,385 ft · Matthews-Winters Park
- Hill Side Boulders2,446 m · 9 boulder problems · 6,545 ft · Matthews-Winters Park
- North Matthews-Winters2,574 m · 1 boulder problem · 6,447 ft · Matthews-Winters Park
- Ulysse's Rock2,574 m · 1 boulder problem · 6,447 ft · Matthews-Winters Park
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 City of Lakewood (local government), in William Frederick Hayden Green Mountain Park. It lies inside local 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.
Nobody has yet read City of Lakewood's own rules for this crag and written them down here, so treat the above as where you are, not as what you may do.
Nearby, from OpenStreetMap
- Toilets
- 1,130 m away (map)
- Mapped parking
- 997 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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