Silverton area
56 routes and 1 boulder problem at 7 crags. "Silverton area" 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 4 of these 7; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 9,240 and 10,765 ft (elevation known for 7 of 7).
- Rock, where known (4 of 7 crags): gneiss, schist & quartzite (2), sandstone (1), basalt & volcanic (1).
- Mapped geology under these crags (7 of 7 read off the geologic map): glacial drift (2), leadville, gilman, dyer, parting, and sawatch fms in west-central and south-central. leadville limestone, ouray limestone, elbert fm, and ignacio quartzite in far southwest (2), ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence (1) and 2 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 6.
- Sun and shade:
Stripe, The
Cunningham Gulch
Deadwood Gulch
South Mineral Creek
Eureka area
Trainrobber Wall
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.