Canon City
1,288 routes and 59 boulder problems at 31 crags. "Canon City" is the catalogue's own grouping — a town, a canyon or a corridor, whichever climbers actually say.
Which way a wall faces is known for 11 of these 31; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 5,321 and 7,708 ft (elevation known for 31 of 31).
- Rock, where known (28 of 31 crags): limestone (15), gneiss, schist & quartzite (11), granite (1), sandstone (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (31 of 31 read off the geologic map): one or more ordovician fms (12), biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite (6), felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered (5) and 3 more units.
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1889; each crag page shows its oldest sheet.
- No crag here is within 1.5 km of an RTD stop. Mapped toilets within 2 km of 25.
- Sun and shade:
From the archives
Photographs of Canon City held by the Library of Congress, oldest first, each marked "no known restrictions on publication" by the Library. Shown from their servers, not copied here.
Cañon of the Arkansas, Cañon City, Colo. · 1901 · stereograph
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Canon City, Colo. · Sawdey, E. F. · 1909
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Panorama of Canon City, Colo. · Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio) · 1915
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Shelf Road
- The Bank345 routes and 24 boulder problems · faces SW · limestone · 7,269 ft
- The Gallery198 routes · limestone · 6,704 ft
- Cactus Cliff157 routes · faces SW · limestone · 6,939 ft
- Sand Gulch123 routes and 5 boulder problems · limestone · 6,712 ft
- The Gym82 routes and 1 boulder problem · faces SE · limestone · 6,944 ft
- The Dark Side67 routes · faces N · limestone · 6,769 ft
- The Vault37 routes · limestone · 6,848 ft
- Spiney Ridge34 routes · faces SE · limestone · 6,984 ft
- The North End29 routes · faces NE · limestone · 7,056 ft
- The North Gym29 routes · faces NE · limestone · 7,013 ft
- The Great Black North25 routes · faces N · limestone · 7,108 ft
- Cash Wall15 routes · limestone · 6,986 ft
- The Bach Block12 routes · limestone · 6,542 ft
- Valhalla8 routes · faces SE · limestone · 7,708 ft
- University Wall5 routes · faces NW · limestone · 6,358 ft
Buckskin Crags
- The Sweet Spot27 routes · Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered · 6,182 ft
- Buddha Wall25 routes · Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered · 6,329 ft
- Slick Rock Gardens Bouldering Area20 boulder problems · Granitic rocks of 1700-m.y. age group · 6,354 ft
- Outlaw Wall11 routes · Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered · 6,370 ft
- Territorial Wall11 routes · Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered · 6,354 ft
- Town of Terror Bouldering Area9 boulder problems · Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered · 6,323 ft
Phantom Canyon
- Tall Green Wall12 routes · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,247 ft
- Bud Wall7 routes · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,186 ft
- Vatican7 routes · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,215 ft
- Roadside5 routes · faces W · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,061 ft
- Area 664 routes · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,825 ft
- Creek Side3 routes · Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite · 6,101 ft
- Gap Wall2 routes · unconsolidated alluvium (Modern alluvium) · 5,771 ft
- Mystic Short Wall2 routes · unconsolidated alluvium (Modern alluvium) · 5,773 ft
- Hesse Wall1 route · arkose (Fountain Fm, with conglomerate) · 5,769 ft
Table Mountain South
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.