Coal Creek Canyon
15 routes at 6 crags. "Coal Creek Canyon" 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 3 of these 6; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 6,985 and 8,459 ft (elevation known for 6 of 6).
- Rock, where known (6 of 6 crags): granite (5), sandstone (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (6 of 6 read off the geologic map): boulder creek granodiorite (5), fountain formation (1).
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1899; 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 1.
- Sun and shade:
Pinecliffe
6th Flatiron (Blue Mountain Dr.)
Echo Rock (AKA The Scoop)
Sisters Rock
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.