South Buttress (?)

1 route · Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group) · 6,524 ft

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Rock, from the geologic map

Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group) (Pikes Peak Granite, Mount Rosa Granite, Windy Point Granite, Redskin Granite) — granite, alkali feldspar granite, minor quartz monzonite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.

Includes Pikes Peak, Mount Rosa, Windy Point, and Redskin Granites and unnamed 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: Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group). Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1893

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1893. 37 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1893 USGS sheet covering South Buttress (?) — **USGS 1:125000-scale Quadrangle for Colorado Springs, CO 1893** · U.S. Geological Survey · 1893 · 1:125,000 sheet
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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, 1893 to 1994: 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

The whole-state sheet of the 1877 atlas, scanned at full resolution by the state survey and free to download.

Colorado Geological Survey (publication HM-01-04) · Public domain · read it
Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory · F. V. Hayden, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories · 1877

The first geology anyone drew of this ground. Hayden's survey mapped the state in the 1870s; these are the sheets, with the rock units coloured as they understood them then.

Internet Archive (Brigham Young University copy) · Public domain · read it

Free to read: public domain or government work. About Colorado 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.

Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1900
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Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1900
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The Antlers, Colorado Springs · Detroit Publishing Co. · 1901
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The Antlers, Colorado Springs · Detroit Publishing Co. · 1901
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The Antlers, Colorado Springs · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1901
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Silver Cascade, North Cheyenne Canyon, Colorado · 1906 · stereograph
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Pano. of Colorado Springs · Tipton, W. R. · 1908
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Colorado Springs, Colorado · 1912 · postcard
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Elks' Home, Colorado Springs, Colorado · 1912 · postcard
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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.

North Cheyenne Canyon Park CO 2009 · Dennis Graham · 2012 · 190 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs,Colorado,USA. - panoramio (1) · Roman Eugeniusz · 2011 · 922 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs,Colorado,USA. - panoramio (2) · Roman Eugeniusz · 2011 · 1,136 m from the crag's map point
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Three of Seven Falls - panoramio · michaelwm25 · 2008 · 1,179 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs from Inspiration Point · Fredlyfish4 · 2013 · 1,082 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs,Colorado,USA. - panoramio - Roman Eugeniusz (3) · Roman Eugeniusz · 2008 · 1,136 m from the crag's map point
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North Cheyenne Canyon Park Starsmore Discovery Center · Dennis Graham · 2012 · 190 m from the crag's map point
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Bricks inside the Stratmoor Visitor Center · Tokeamour · 2025 · 851 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs,Colorado,USA. - panoramio (3) · Roman Eugeniusz · 2011 · 966 m from the crag's map point
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Inspiration Point Colorado Springs · Fredlyfish4 · 2013 · 1,083 m from the crag's map point
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Seven Falls 2 · Fredlyfish4 · 2013 · 1,090 m from the crag's map point
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Colorado Springs,Colorado,USA. - panoramio - Roman Eugeniusz (1) · Roman Eugeniusz · 2008 · 1,127 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

1 Water Line (?) 5.8
★ 1.3 · 3 Trad PG Crag only

Also within 3 km

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.

Sun today

Wall direction not known yet.

Rain & forecast

No recent weather for this crag.

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

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 38.79250 N, 104.87580 W (South Buttress (?)). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by City of Colorado Springs (local government), in North Cheyenne Canon 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 Colorado Springs'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: 746 m away (map)
Mapped parking: 63 m away (map)
Campsite: Unnamed, 2,152 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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