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Pike's Peak

5 routes and 3 boulder problems · Rocks of Pikes Peak Batholith (1000-m.y. age group) · 14,094 ft

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What's here

5.7 to 5.15, with no single grade dominating.

  1. 1 5.7
  2. 1 5.8
  3. 1 5.9
  4. 1 5.10
  5. 1 5.15

Counted from the 5 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

Crag only 8 

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

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 1894

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1894. 28 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1894 USGS sheet covering Pike's Peak
USGS 1:125000-scale Quadrangle for Pikes Peak, CO 1894 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1894 · 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, 1894 to 1994: USGS topoView.

In print since 1877

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.

Manitou, Pike's Peak in distance
Manitou, Pike's Peak in distance · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1881 · albumen
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Pike's Peak from Briarhurst · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Pike's Peak from Gateway, Colorado · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Pike's Peak from near Colorado City · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1898 · photochrom
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Pike's Peak, Colorado · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1899 · photochrom
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Sunrise from Pike's Peak · Detroit Photographic Co. · 1899 · 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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Pike's Peak from Altman, Colo. · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · 1900
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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.

Train at Pikes Peek - panoramio
Train at Pikes Peek - panoramio · Jacob Montgomery · 2011 · 20 m from the crag's map point
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Pike National Forest (1) · Chris Short from Raleigh, NC, United States · 2005 · 21 m from the crag's map point
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Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway 007 · John · 2007 · 25 m from the crag's map point
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Pikes Peak summit view 1 · Fredlyfish4 · 2013 · 27 m from the crag's map point
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Pikes Peak Cog Railway car 25 at summit of Pikes Peak · Dough4872 · 2021 · 30 m from the crag's map point
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Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway 005 · Solo, with others · 2005 · 36 m from the crag's map point
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Top of Pikes Peek - panoramio (2) · Jacob Montgomery · 2011 · 50 m from the crag's map point
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PikesPeakRailway2025 · Franklin Buchanan · 2025 · 57 m from the crag's map point
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Pikes Peak Colorado 14 115 foot - panoramio · bogdanstepniak · 2015 · 60 m from the crag's map point
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Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Rail @ Pikes Peak (53188177510) · Han Zheng · 2023 · 60 m from the crag's map point
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Top of Pikes Peek - panoramio (1) · Jacob Montgomery · 2011 · 67 m from the crag's map point
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Pikes Peak Cog Railway (1) (5925080890) · Alan Stark from Goodyear, AZ, United States · 2011 · 78 m from the crag's map point
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Routes

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.

Pick a photo from your camera roll rather than taking one here: a picture taken inside a browser usually has no location saved in it, and we check that the photo was taken at this crag before publishing it. Photos of guidebook pages and topos are refused — they're the author's work. By sending one you're letting us publish it.

Nobody reviews these before they appear, so anyone can report one and it's hidden straight away — including you, if you change your mind, and including a photographer who finds their own picture here.

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
In shade all day
Wall faces N (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Open sky in most directions.
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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 38.84100 N, 105.04260 W (Pike's Peak). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Pike National Forest (federal). It lies inside inventoried roadless 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 Pike-San Isabel National Forests land

Fees
No entrance fee for the Pike-San Isabel National Forests or the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands. Fees apply at campgrounds and day-use areas operated by the forest's concessionaire, paid on site.
Overnight
On the Leadville, Salida and San Carlos districts of the San Isabel, camping at any location within the same 20-mile radius for more than 14 days in a continuous 30-day period is prohibited. No camping within 100 feet of water outside a developed or designated site.

Read on Pike-San Isabel 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.

Nearby, from OpenStreetMap

Toilets
119 m away (map)
Mapped parking
84 m away (map)
Campsite
Barr Camp, 3,210 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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