Ouray vicinity (rock)
213 routes and 10 boulder problems at 27 crags. "Ouray vicinity (rock)" 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 21 of these 27; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 7,044 and 12,481 ft (elevation known for 27 of 27).
- Rock, where known (26 of 27 crags): sandstone (17), gneiss, schist & quartzite (8), basalt & volcanic (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (27 of 27 read off the geologic map): hermosa fm (9), uncompahgre fm (8), leadville limestone, gilman sandstone, dyer dolomite, and parting fm (4) and 5 more units.
- The USGS has mapped this ground since 1897; 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 19.
- Sun and shade:
- In the shade on a summer afternoon (6)
- That are shady in the morning and sunny later (12)
- That stay shady almost all day in summer (1)
- High enough to be cool in summer (7)
- In the sun on a winter afternoon (7)
- In the sun all day in winter (1)
- That catch the morning sun in spring (4)
- In the afternoon sun in autumn (8)
Pool Wall, The
- The Alcove23 routes · faces SW · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 7,811 ft
- The Deep End14 routes · faces W · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 8,009 ft
- Bay of Pigs13 routes · faces SW · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 7,945 ft
- The Upper Wall8 routes · faces SW · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 7,945 ft
- The Wading Pool8 routes · faces W · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 7,912 ft
- The Backyard2 routes · faces SW · arkose (Hermosa Fm, with conglomerate, shale) · 7,945 ft
Overlook Cliff
Ouray Rotary Park-Rink Wall
Jimmy Cliff
Technicolor Wall aka Techno Crag
Waterfall Wall
Ridgway Dike Wall
Ridgway State Park
- One-Of-A-Kind Boulder9 boulder problems · faces W · shale (Mancos Shale, with sandstone) · 7,065 ft
- Waterview Cliffband1 boulder problem · faces W · sandstone (Dakota, Purgatoire, Morrison, Ralston Creek, and Entrada Fms in southeast. Dakota, Morrison, and Entrada Fms in central mountains. Dakota, Burro Canyon, Morrison, Wanakah, and Entrada Fms in Gunnison River area. Dakota, Morrison, Curtis, And Entrada F, with mudstone, limestone) · 7,044 ft
Randall's Badger Sanctuary aka Spider Den
Camp Bird Mine Rd/Mountain Rescue Cache Crag
Secret Stash, The
Upper Cascade Wall
Mordwand, The
Chunder Dome
Misfits Wall, The
Slab of Despair
Colby's Corner (Ridgway)
Le Petit Verdon
Stolen Lands Buttress
Engineer Pass Crag
Sandias
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.