Telluride/Norwood area
334 routes and 44 boulder problems at 30 crags. "Telluride/Norwood 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 22 of these 30; the rest say nothing rather than guess. Sun and shade by season ranks the ones we know.
At a glance
- Crags sit between 7,092 and 10,772 ft (elevation known for 30 of 30).
- Rock, where known (26 of 30 crags): sandstone (21), basalt & volcanic (5).
- Mapped geology under these crags (30 of 30 read off the geologic map): cutler fm (8), morrison, wanakah, and entrada fms (5), eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks (4) and 7 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 12.
- Sun and shade:
- In the shade on a summer afternoon (7)
- That are shady in the morning and sunny later (10)
- That stay shady almost all day in summer (1)
- High enough to be cool in summer (18)
- In the sun on a winter afternoon (3)
- In the sun all day in winter (2)
- That catch the morning sun in spring (2)
- In the afternoon sun in autumn (8)
From the archives
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Ophir
- Ophir Wall70 routes · faces SW · mafic hypabyssal (Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks, with felsic hypabyssal) · 9,443 ft
- Cracked Canyon42 routes · faces S · mafic hypabyssal (Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks, with felsic hypabyssal) · 9,795 ft
- The Dark Side39 routes · faces N · mafic hypabyssal (Middle Tertiary intrusive rocks, with felsic hypabyssal) · 9,695 ft
Falls Walls, The
- Streaked Wall35 routes · faces NE · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 10,346 ft
- Main Wall18 routes · faces NE · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 10,346 ft
- Family Values3 routes · faces NE · Pre-ash-flow andesitic lavas, breccias, tuffs, and conglomerates · 10,346 ft
- Shark's Fin Wall3 routes · faces NE · Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks · 9,989 ft
- Umbrella Wall3 routes · faces NE · Eocene prevolcanic sedimentary rocks · 9,953 ft
Bear Creek
Pipeline Wall
Telluride Edge
Clay Creek Crag
Mill Creek Wall
Mine Boulders, The
- The Mine Boulder8 boulder problems · faces W · siltstone (Dolores Fm, with shale, sandstone) · 9,108 ft
- The Second Boulder6 boulder problems · faces W · siltstone (Dolores Fm, with shale, sandstone) · 9,226 ft
- Million Dollar Boulder5 boulder problems · faces NW · siltstone (Dolores Fm, with shale, sandstone) · 9,123 ft
Society Turn
Ilium Boulders
- The Sun Block aka Southernmost Boulder5 boulder problems · arkose (Cutler Fm, with siltstone, conglomerate) · 8,775 ft
- The Egg Boulders4 boulder problems · arkose (Cutler Fm, with siltstone, conglomerate) · 8,775 ft
- The Premier2 boulder problems · arkose (Cutler Fm, with siltstone, conglomerate) · 8,775 ft
- Itsy Bitsy Boulder1 boulder problem · arkose (Cutler Fm, with siltstone, conglomerate) · 8,775 ft
- The Pocket Boulder1 boulder problem · faces W · sandstone (Morrison, Wanakah, and Entrada Fms, with mudstone, claystone) · 8,068 ft
Forgotten Wall, The
Yellowcake Wall
Cirque, The
Ames Wall
Bilk Creek Wall
Hamilton
Needle Rock
Every crag here comes from the open catalogue or a cited guidebook; see Sources & licences. Counts are the current build's.