Naturita and Paradox Valley

83 routes and 21 boulder problems at 16 crags. "Naturita and Paradox Valley" 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 13 of these 16; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.

At a glance

Crags sit between 5,060 and 6,813 ft (elevation known for 16 of 16).
Rock, where known (16 of 16 crags): sandstone (16).
Mapped geology under these crags (16 of 16 read off the geologic map): glen canyon group and chinle fm (6), morrison fm, summerville fm, and entrada sandstone (4), kayenta fm, wingate sandstone, and chinle fm (2) and 3 more units.
The USGS has mapped this ground since 1916; 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 3.
Sun and shade:

From the archives

Photographs of Naturita and Paradox Valley 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.

The Pueblo, Park of the Red Rocks, Denver Mt. Parks, Colorado · 1912 · postcard
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Public domain · the record · found by place name, not yet checked

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