Deep Cut Guide

South Side Area

2 routes and 58 boulder problems · Laramie Fm and Fox Hills Sandstone · 6,282 ft

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What's here

VB to V11, mostly around V1.

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

Counted from the 58 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) 2  Position on wall known 53  Crag only 5 

The order of the climbs along this wall is known from the open catalogue, so a few surveys go a long way: standing at Smoker's Paradise Project, Chick Power (2 climbs, about 60 seconds on Main Boulder aka The Wedge) would place up to 11 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

Laramie Fm and Fox Hills Sandstone (Laramie Formation, Fox Hills Sandstone) — sandstone, shale, claystone. Late Cretaceous, about 76 to 68 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. Every crag on this unit: Laramie Fm and Fox Hills Sandstone. 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. 32 historical sheets cover this crag's map point; the oldest is below.

Thumbnail of the 1893 USGS sheet covering South Side Area
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 1989: 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.

Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs
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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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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[Colorado Springs, Colorado] · Stewart Brothers (Firm) · 1913
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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.

UCCS Summer Panoramic
UCCS Summer Panoramic · Jeffrey M Foster · 2015 · 1,150 m from the crag's map point
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Communication towers, University Park summit - panoramio · Phillip Stewart · 2010 · 1,307 m from the crag's map point
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1L6A6538 (52311280504) · UCCS (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) · 2021 · 567 m from the crag's map point
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1L6A2401 (52311377344) · UCCS (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) · 2022 · 636 m from the crag's map point
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Uccs (52310053477) · UCCS (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) · 2021 · 718 m from the crag's map point
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1L6A6670 (52311299795) · UCCS (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) · 2021 · 739 m from the crag's map point
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Along a two-lane road lined with old motels that was once a main route into Colorado Springs, Colorado, a billboard prom · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 776 m from the crag's map point
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The End of the Trail Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 783 m from the crag's map point
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The Rampart Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorad · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 786 m from the crag's map point
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An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Sp · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 803 m from the crag's map point
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An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Sp · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 810 m from the crag's map point
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One of several 1950s-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado LCCN2015633394 · Carol M. Highsmith · 2015 · 884 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
Wall direction not known yet.
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 63°/36° · 0.0 mm · 11 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 61°/37° · 0.0 mm · 9 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 57°/39° · 0.0 mm · 10 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 38.89307 N, 104.81035 W (South Side Area). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

We don't know who manages this ground: PAD-US doesn't map this point as protected land, which most often means it is private. Find out whose it is before you go.

Nobody has yet read the land manager'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
1,270 m away (map)
Mapped parking
287 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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