Deep Cut Guide

Taylor Canyon Bouldering

70 boulder problems · granite (Granite of Taylor River, Middle Proterozoic) · 8,467 ft

Take me there Routes ↓ Directions

Help locate these routes: survey the wall

What's here

VB to V11, mostly around V3.

  1. 2 VB
  2. 6 V0
  3. 6 V1
  4. 5 V2
  5. 11 V3
  6. 10 V4
  7. 6 V5
  8. 4 V6
  9. 5 V7
  10. 5 V8
  11. 3 V9
  12. 3 V10
  13. 4 V11

Counted from the 70 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

Base placed (one source) 3  Position on wall known 26  Crag only 41 

The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Left Arete, Get to Crackin' (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Esty Lane Boulders) would place up to 4 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

Granitic rocks of 1400- and 1700-m.y. age groups, undivided, or, in Taylor River region, rocks with characteristics of Xg but U-Th-Pb zircon ages of Yg — granite. Mesoproterozoic, about 1,600 to 1,000 million years old.

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: Granitic rocks of 1400- and 1700-m.y. age groups, undivided, or, in Taylor River region, rocks with characteristics of Xg but U-Th-Pb zircon ages of Yg. Geology data: Macrostrat (CC BY 4.0), serving USGS and Colorado Geological Survey maps.

On the map since 1941

The USGS has mapped this ground since 1941. 20 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1941 USGS sheet covering Taylor Canyon Bouldering
USGS 1:62500-scale Quadrangle for Pitkin, CO 1941 · U.S. Geological Survey · 1941 · 1:62,500 sheet
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, 1941 to 2001: USGS topoView.

In print since 1877

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

Chipeta Falls, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado
Chipeta Falls, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado · 1906 · postcard
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Currecanti Needle, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado · 1906 · postcard
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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Giant balanced rock, Gunnison River, Colo., U.SA. · 1910 · stereograph
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · indexed to this place by the archive
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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
sun 09:50-14:10
Wall faces SE (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 24° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
Crags by sun and shade →
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 54°/24° · 0.0 mm · 9 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 54°/34° · 0.0 mm · 8 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 50°/32° · 0.0 mm · 7 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 18:40 UTC

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 38.73274 N, 106.74233 W (Taylor Canyon Bouldering). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

The map point for this crag is on land managed by Gunnison National Forest (federal). It lies inside 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.

Nobody has yet read Gunnison National Forest'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
1,189 m away (map)
Mapped parking
134 m away (map)
Campsite
Rosy Lane Campground, 482 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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