Empire
81 routes and 4 boulder problems at 14 crags. "Empire" 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 14 of these 14; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 8,604 and 10,192 ft (elevation known for 14 of 14).
- Rock, where known (3 of 14 crags): granite (3).
- Mapped geology under these crags (14 of 14 read off the geologic map): fan deposits (8), silver plume granite (3), talus deposits (2) and 1 more unit.
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1905; 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 11.
- Sun and shade:
From the archives
Photographs of Empire 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.
![American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 24th, 1865.](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/lprbscsm/scsm1211/001r.jpg)
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Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.