The North Gym
29 routes · limestone · 7,013 ft
What's here
5.9 to 5.14, with no single grade dominating.
Counted from the 29 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 29
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 Treble Huck, Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown, Pimp's Main Prophet, Squeeze (4 climbs, about 120 seconds) would place up to 25 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
The book has the topos, the descriptions and the local knowledge this page can't. Buying it helps support the people who know the crag best.
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.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Routes
- 1 Treble Huck 5.13b
- 2 "Tommy" (Unnamed) 5.11c
- 3 "Pacman Gomez" (Unnamed) 5.11c
- 4 Power Milk & Bagels 5.10b
- 5 Alpha Chino's Chinos 5.12b
- 6 Observe God's Mistake 5.10c
- 7 Lead Farmer 5.12c
- 8 Satan's Alley 5.13c
- 9 Rum-Tum-Tuggernaughts 5.11b
- 10 Here We Go Again... Again. 5.12b
- 11 Earth Mama's Natural Night Camo 5.10c
- 12 [Redacted] 5.13b
- 13 Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown 5.11a
- 14 Who Left the Fridge Open? 5.12a
- 15 Unknown 1 5.11b
- 16 That's What She Said 5.12c
- 17 Power Thirteen 5.13a
- 18 Apogee Pending 5.14a
- 19 Long Black Veil 5.12b
- 20 Flamingo Lane 5.10d
- 21 Logan's Run 5.12a
- 22 "40-Year-Old Virgin" (Name Unknown) 5.11c
- 23 "Black Crack" (Name Unknown) 5.9
- 24 [Redacted] 5.12a
- 25 Pimp's Main Prophet 5.13b
- 26 Unknown 3 5.10-
- 27 Spitting Image 5.13b
- 28 Orange 5.11-
- 29 Squeeze 5.12
Also within 3 km
- The Gym745 m · 82 routes and 1 boulder problem · 6,944 ft
- The North End793 m · 29 routes · 7,056 ft
- Spiney Ridge1,008 m · 34 routes · 6,984 ft
- Cash Wall1,028 m · 15 routes · 6,986 ft
- Cactus Cliff1,040 m · 157 routes · 6,939 ft
- The Vault1,101 m · 37 routes · 6,848 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 Bureau of Land Management (federal), in Royal Gorge Field Office. It lies inside wild and scenic river.
The boundary is close. Land managed by Private or Palmer Land Trust comes within 250 m of this point, and the point is not the rock — the wall itself may be on the other side of the line. Check which before you rely on either one's rules.
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
- 1,072 m away (map)
- Campsite
- Banks Campground Group Site, 1,523 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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