The Bank
345 routes and 24 boulder problems · limestone · 7,269 ft
What's here
5.5 to 5.13, mostly around 5.10.
VB to V5, mostly around V0.
Counted from the 369 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 368 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.
The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at The Sun Always Shines on TV, Unknown 10, Reggatta de Blanc, Show Stopper, Bambi Meets Godzilla, Unknown 5.10a, Climb It Like You Stole It, Fumblerooski, Friday Football Feast (9 climbs, about 270 seconds on Quarry Wall at the Bank) would place up to 82 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.
The guidebook for this area
Shelf Road Rock - Rick Thompson - 3rd ed. every crag it covers
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Rock, from the geologic map
One or more Ordovician fms (Fremont Limestone, Harding Sandstone, Manitou Limestone) — limestone, minor sandstone. Ordovician, about 483 to 451 million years old.
Fremont Limestone, Harding Sandstone, and Manitou Limestone
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: One or more Ordovician fms. 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. 26 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, 1894 to 1989: USGS topoView.
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.
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Routes
01. Piggy Bank
- 1 Unknown 5.7 (Earth Day?) 5.7
- 2 One Tough Waterjug 5.9-
- 3 Bum Cakes (formerly listed as Buns) 5.9+
- 4 Bridget the Midget 5.9
- 5 Silver Rain 5.11a
- 6 [Redacted] 5.11b
- 7 Who Asked You? 5.10a
- 8 Sky, Blue Sky 5.12b
- 9 Prestevious 5.8-
- 10 Dirty Deed 5.8
- 11 Geek USA 5.12a
- 12 Lloyd 5.7
- 13 Harry 5.11a
- 14 Number 1 Super Guy 5.11a
- 15 Ussen 5.10-
- 16 Unknown 8+ 5.8+
- 17 Shelf Life 5.8
- 18 Season Down Under 5.10b
- 19 Alcohollica 5.8+
- 20 Heretic 5.8
- 21 Ladies' Night In Buffalo 5.9-
- 22 Unsaid, The (aka The Brothel) 5.8
- 23 Limestone Cowboy 5.6
- 24 Piñon Slalom 5.9
- 25 Shady Character 5.10a
- 26 Tuff Shed (aka B&C) 5.9+
- 27 Abu Simbel 5.10b
- 28 The Don Show 5.9
- 29 Doggie Style 5.9
- 30 Y- Left (submitted as Why Left) 5.12b
- 31 Generation X 5.11b
- 32 Lick and a Promise 5.10c
- 33 Heaven is Waiting 5.10+
- 34 Stranger in Moscow 5.9
- 35 Old But Not Dead 5.11+
- 36 Large Marge 5.8+
- 37 Starving Hippies 5.11c
- 38 Puking Yuppies 5.11a
- 39 Gen X ation (aka Musso Route) 5.10d
- 40 Pig City Nights 5.8
- 41 Lefty 5.9-
- 42 2010A 5.10a
- 43 jasonbecker.com 5.10-
- 44 Incredible Weather 5.12d
- 45 Disciples of Hell 5.11b
- 46 Flesh Tuxedo 5.11a
- 47 Pink Torpedo 5.9+
- 48 Pink Torpedo (extension) 5.11b
- 49 Birthing the Piggy 5.8
- 50 The Sweepings 5.10a
- 51 Gambino 5.9+
- 52 The Apple Cracks 5.7
- 53 Misery 5.9+
- 54 Crab Nation 5.10a
- 55 Sty in the Sky 5.9
- 56 Project Focus 5.10b
- 57 Pennies and Piggydust 5.8-
- 58 Poncho 5.8
02. Bank Rob
- 1 Scramblin' Fran 5.5
- 2 Purple Packer Smacker 5.7
- 3 Ragnar 5.6
- 4 Purple Reign 5.5
- 5 Ma Barker 5.7
- 6 Jesse James 5.8
- 7 Baby Face Nelson 5.9+
- 8 Soprano 5.10d
- 9 R.A.M.M. 5.10+
- 10 Unknown Offwidth Trad Route 5.9
- 11 Another Bolted Crack 5.8+
- 12 Richter Scale 5.10c
- 13 Shelfish 5.9
- 14 New Comer (aka New Corner) 5.10a
- 15 Dillinger 5.9
- 16 Poncho and the Three Perverts 5.8-
- 17 Knot Too Many Roaches 5.10a/b
- 18 Pretty Boy Floyd 5.8-
- 19 Butch Cassidy 5.10a
03. Machine Gun Kelly
- 1 Scarface 5.10d
- 2 Machine Gun Kelly 5.11c
- 3 [Redacted] 5.10d
- 4 Goodfellas 5.10a
- 5 On the Mushroom 5.11b
- 6 Black Hole Sun 5.9-
- 7 Razor Burn (aka Stewart's Slab) 5.8+
- 8 Neopolitan Headrush 5.12a
- 9 On the Ritz 5.11b
- 10 Cerebral Brain Freeze 5.11d
- 11 Stair Master 5.8
- 12 Will Purr For Treats 5.10a
- 13 1979 5.11b
- 14 They Only Come Out At Night 5.11a/b
- 15 I Have a Dream 5.8
- 16 Let Me Out 5.9
04. Dave Dangle
- 1 The Cat Ate My Homework 5.10d
- 2 Power Broker 5.12c/d
- 3 Dave Dangle 5.11b/c
- 4 Metamusso 5.11a
- 5 Team Anorexia 5.11a
- 6 Scarf and Barf 5.11b/c
- 7 Stomach Stapler 5.10c
- 8 Binge and Purge 5.10d
05. Thunder Tactics
- 1 Aspiring Frog 5.10
- 2 Hostile Crankover 5.11b
- 3 Energy Before Ecstasy 5.10a/b
- 4 Shy Roof 5.11b
- 5 War In The Banks 5.10b
- 6 Desserter 5.10a
- 7 Solitude 5.11a/b
- 8 Plate Tectonics 5.10c
- 9 Lemons, Limes and Jalapenos 5.12b
- 10 What's Biting Me? 5.11c
- 11 Corner Blitz 5.9
- 12 Thunder Thighs 5.11a/b
- 13 Thunder Tactics 5.11c
- 14 Otis 5.12c
- 15 Quickstrike 5.10c
06. Surreal Estate
- 1 Sicilian Style 5.11a/b
- 2 Leverage 5.10c
- 3 Feverish 5.10c
- 4 Courage and Enlightenment 5.11d
- 5 Staying Power 5.11c
- 6 Sparkle In The Rain 5.12c
- 7 Once Upon a Time 5.11a/b
- 8 Trundle 5.10a
- 9 Stormy Weather 5.11a
- 10 Heavy Weather 5.12a/b
- 11 Unusual Weather 5.11c
- 12 Surreal Estate 5.12c
- 13 Ice Cream Hangover 5.11b
- 14 Le Pincher 5.13a
07. Back To The Future
- 1 5.9 crack 5.9
- 2 Peter Pan 5.11b
- 3 5.10 Crack 5.10
- 4 5.10a corner 5.10a
- 5 5.11 Arete 5.11
- 6 This is Your Brain 5.12c
- 7 SuedeHead 5.12d
- 8 No Rest For the Wicked 5.12a/b
- 9 Future Fossil 5.12c
- 10 McFly 5.12d
- 11 Back to the Future 5.11b/c
- 12 No Future for the Timid 5.11d
- 13 Rock Frog 5.10c
- 14 From Russia With Love 5.10a
- 15 B/C 5.9+
- 16 Concentrated Weirdness 5.8+
08. Lesser Of Two Evils
- 1 Run for the Shadows 5.9+
- 2 Mighty Mouse 5.10d
- 3 Freeloader 5.10-
- 4 Herminator 5.8
- 5 Judgment Day 5.9+
- 6 Provence Côte d'Azur 5.9
- 7 Scraggle Face McCrackerson 5.7
- 8 Le Petit Verdon 5.8
- 9 Lesser of Two Evils 5.11b
- 10 The Rack 5.11-
- 11 Under The Gun 5.11a
- 12 British Persuasion 5.10-
- 13 Scavenger's Daughter 5.10c
- 14 Mismatched Partners 5.10b/c
- 15 CJ & The Lesbian Seagull 5.8
- 16 Thank You, Minneapolis! 5.10+
09. Ethics? What Ethics?
- 1 My Versailles Guy 5.8+
- 2 Louis XIV 5.10d
- 3 Ethics? What Ethics? 5.11b
- 4 Dancin` Shoes 5.11a
- 5 Aerial Solution 5.10c
- 6 Hicks, Hillbillies, Hobos 5.7+
- 7 Overture 1383 5.7
- 8 Welcome to Shelf Road 5.10d
- 9 Bleeding Purple 5.8
- 10 Loves Me Like a Rock 5.8
- 11 You Were Meant For Me 5.5
10. 2150 Wall
- 1 Tribal Boundary 5.11b
- 2 Shout 5.11a
- 3 Primal Scream 5.9+
- 4 Deconstructing Harry 5.9+
- 5 Tired Arms Recovery Program (T.A.R.P.) 5.9
- 6 Sleeper 5.8
- 7 Mighty Aphrodite 5.10a
- 8 Move Night 5.7+
- 9 Battering RAMM 5.10+
- 10 2112 5.9+
- 11 Emperor's Robe 5.11d
- 12 Lime Street 5.11b
- 13 Aoxomoxoa 5.12b
- 14 Stick It aka Serious Power Outage 5.11a
- 15 Ripped 5.10b
- 16 Living in America 5.12a
- 17 Taping Tendons 5.11c/d
- 18 Lost Planet Airman 5.11c
- 19 2150 A.D. 5.10d
11. Toasty Corner
- 1 Kicker 5.9
- 2 Burnt Toast 5.7
- 3 Sparky 5.8
- 4 Three Old Dogs 5.9
- 5 Slot Machine 5.10a
- 6 Storm Girl 5.10a
- 7 Killer Chihuahua 5.10a
- 8 White Dog 5.10a
12. Beijing
- 1 Unknown 5.10 5.10
- 2 Pullin' Down in the Fields of Cotton 5.10a/b
- 3 Peking 5.7
- 4 Sonic Youth 5.10c
Cactus Rose Cliff
- 1 The Tower of Beta 5.12b/c
- 2 Back in Black 5.10b
- 3 Child's Play 5.12a
- 4 The Omen 5.10d
- 5 Raising Arizona 5.10d
- 6 Arizona Rising 5.11a
- 7 Vapor Trails 5.10b/c
- 8 Crack to Black 5.10c
- 9 Welcome To The Machine 5.11d
- 10 Mark Finds Bob Bolting 5.11a
- 11 Sweat Hog 5.10d
- 12 The Needle Lies 5.10a/b
- 13 How Ed Lost His Mind 5.10b
- 14 John Wayne Never Wore Boxer Shorts 5.10d
- 15 Bachar Up Against The Wall And Kauk Him 5.11b
- 16 Sticks and Stone May Break My Bones... 5.9+
- 17 E=mc^2 5.11c
- 18 Cactus Rose 5.11+
- 19 Barbecueing Traditions 5.12-
- 20 Alligator Ed 5.10a
- 21 Maiden's Milk 5.10c
- 22 Whisper of Immortality 5.9-
- 23 Aliens Ate My Penis 5.11b/c
- 24 Paper Bondage 5.10a
- 25 Handsome Alien 5.12a/b
- 26 Munchkins on Parade 5.10c
- 27 Skinheads Big Night Out 5.11d
- 28 Take The Skinheads Bowling 5.11c/d
- 29 Bald Headed Neocons 5.10c/d
- 30 Unknown 5.10-
- 31 Little Boys With Power Toys 5.10a
- 32 Hell Raiser 5.10a
- 33 Pigs in Bondage 5.9
Cracked Egg Boulders (Tier Boulders)
- 1 Tunnel Entrance Overhang V3-4
- 2 Dinoslab V-easy
- 3 The Great Lever V3-4
- 4 Rotten Yolk V1+
- 5 Humpty Dumpty was a Loser V0-
- 6 Seams Loose V0
- 7 One-Eyed Skull V0
Peg Leg Wall
- 1 men of iron 5.9
- 2 The Flamed, The Pumped, The French 5.11a
- 3 Promised Land 5.11c
- 4 Take It To The Bank 5.13a
- 5 Miss Money Penny 5.12c
- 6 close to the bone 5.11d
- 7 Clutching At Straws 5.11c
- 8 catch the wave 5.11c
- 9 surf's up 5.11d
- 10 Sex Wax 5.10c
- 11 Best For Your Stick 5.10c
- 12 Chili Dog 5.11a
- 13 Corn Dog 5.10c
- 14 Mr. Peg Leg Speed Work 5.12a
- 15 Dough Daddy 5.11b
- 16 Unknown Short Warmup 5.7
Quarry Wall at the Bank
- 1 The Sun Always Shines on TV 5.10a
- 2 Anarchy X 5.11b
- 3 On the Run Again 5.9
- 4 Impending Doom 5.10c
- 5 Kid Charlemagne 5.10a
- 6 Play a Volta 5.9
- 7 The Last in Line 5.7
- 8 Heart & Soul 5.7
- 9 Pet Your Friends 5.7
- 10 Genius Jackson 5.7
- 11 Unknown 5.11 5.11b
- 12 The Royal Scam 5.9+
- 13 Unknown 10 5.10d
- 14 Pitchfork Posse 5.10a
- 15 She Used to be My Girl 5.10b
- 16 Crack Nite 5.11b/c
- 17 Pear Shaped 5.7
- 18 Love at First Sting 5.10c
- 19 Béal Mór 5.8+
- 20 Callate la Boca 5.8
- 21 Putain de Critiques 5.7
- 22 Es ist einfach, nichts zu tun 5.8
- 23 Scheißkopf 5.9+
- 24 Outlandos de Amour 5.10a
- 25 Reggatta de Blanc 5.10c/d
- 26 Zenyatta Mondatta 5.11b/c
- 27 Unknown Roof 5.10c
- 28 Crunchy Bunch 5.7
- 29 Tubby 5.9+
- 30 Jiggly Bits & Muffin Tops 5.9
- 31 Herman Crab 5.8
- 32 One Bullet and Mankind’s Alright 5.10b/c
- 33 Bugenhagen 5.10-
- 34 Toxic B.S. 5.8
- 35 The Irishman 5.10c/d
- 36 Under Lock & Key 5.11a
- 37 Show Stopper 5.11b/c
- 38 Master Sergeant Mac 5.10d
- 39 The King’s Cup 5.10c
- 40 I’ll See the Light Tonight 5.10a
- 41 Christmas Crab 5.8
- 42 Unknown Roofs 5.10+
- 43 Wrinkle Ranch Sex Toys 5.10b/c
- 44 Over The Hill 5.9
- 45 Blue Hair Special 5.7
- 46 Nailed It 5.8+
- 47 Boom 5.6
- 48 Let There Be Rock 5.8
- 49 Bambi Meets Godzilla 5.10c
- 50 Tendon Respite aka Who Done It? 5.10a
- 51 Unknown Route 5.9+
- 52 The Silent Treatment 5.11b
- 53 Bach & Roll 5.11c
- 54 Missing Persons 5.7
- 55 The Politics of Dancing 5.10-
- 56 Swing Out Sister 5.10
- 57 Everything But The Girl 5.10-
- 58 Destination Unknown 5.10+
- 59 Walking in L.A. 5.11b
- 60 Unknown Route 5.10a
- 61 Unknown 5.10a 5.10a
- 62 Saints are Sinners 5.8+
- 63 Fleur-de-lose 5.11a
- 64 Fox on the Run 5.7
- 65 Enola Gay 5.10c
- 66 Unknown Route 5.11-
- 67 You’re the Bomb 5.10-
- 68 Bomb’s Away 5.10-
- 69 Unknown Route 5.10c
- 70 Alfalfa Omega 5.10b
- 71 Dust Lust 5.10d
- 72 Mr. Junk Man 5.10b
- 73 Climb It Like You Stole It 5.9+
- 74 Unknown Warm-up 5.8
- 75 Hipster Doofus 5.9+
- 76 MRS Curse 5.9+
- 77 Fire Marshall Bill 5.9+
- 78 Fuknut Mayhew 5.10-
- 79 C Major 5.9
- 80 B Flat 5.10b
- 81 A Sharp 5.10b
- 82 Professor Peart 5.8+
- 83 Bits and Pieces 5.10b
- 84 Husker Nation 5.7
- 85 Fumblerooski 5.9
- 86 Johnny Rodgers 5.10c
- 87 Over the Mountain 5.10c
- 88 Diseased! 5.10d
- 89 Nine to Noon 5.9
- 90 P.A. & Charch 5.9
- 91 Friday Football Feast 5.9
Safety Slab
- 1 Piggy Bank Gumbies V3
- 2 Big Dave Burger V2-3
- 3 PPE V0
- 4 Right Side V0
- 5 Dusk Musk Traverse V0+
- 6 Brand New Spankin' Heels V2
- 7 Undercover Hashbrown V0+
- 8 Stealthy Pancake V1
- 9 Covert Pork Product V0
Social Distancing Boulder
- 1 Where's the Toilet Paper? V0
- 2 Inept Leadership V0-
- 3 Shelter in Shelf V1
- 4 COVID-19 Contagion V4-
- 5 Flatten the Curve V5
- 6 Not Dead Yet V4
- 7 Viral Spillover V3-4
- 8 Herd Immunity V1
Elsewhere at this crag
- Hell Razors 5.10b
Also within 3 km
- Cash Wall1,677 m · 15 routes · 6,986 ft
- The Vault1,708 m · 37 routes · 6,848 ft
- The North End1,818 m · 29 routes · 7,056 ft
- Cactus Cliff1,862 m · 157 routes · 6,939 ft
- The Great Black North1,910 m · 25 routes · 7,108 ft
- The Bach Block1,982 m · 12 routes · 6,542 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.
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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 Bureau of Land Management (federal), in Royal Gorge Field Office.
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 Bureau of Land Management land
- Fees
- Developed campgrounds are fee sites: at Shelf Road, Sand Gulch is $20 a night for an individual site and $40 for a group site, with no drinking water, hook-ups or trash service. Where a fee area is posted, you must register and pay within 30 minutes of entering it.
- Overnight
- Camping more than 14 days in any 30-day period at any one location is prohibited, including in a campground, and afterwards you must move at least 30 air miles. Personal property may not be left unattended anywhere on public land for more than 48 hours.
Read on Bureau of Land Management'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
- 1,725 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Banks Campground, 1,857 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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