Climbing
Source-verified climbing pages from 435 Alliance.
Anasazi Wall
Anasazi Wall is a small sport crag on the BLM benches west of Santa Clara, near the Tempi’po’op (Anasazi Valley) petroglyph trail.
Birch Hollow / Orderville Canyon
Birch Hollow drops from a high desert plateau near Orderville into a slot canyon that joins Orderville Canyon, which carries water down through Zion...
Black Rocks Bouldering
The Black Rocks are a field of dark, vesicular basalt boulders scattered across the desert flats on the west side of St.
Brian Head Crags
Brian Head sits at nearly ten thousand feet on the Markagunt Plateau, and the climbing here is the high-elevation answer to a Southern Utah summer.
Cedar Canyon Climbing
Cedar Canyon is the slot UT-14 climbs out of Cedar City toward Cedar Breaks and the high country of the Markagunt Plateau.
Chuckwalla Wall
Chuckwalla Wall sits at the dead-end of a gravel pullout off Snow Canyon Parkway, ten minutes north of downtown St. George.
Cougar Cliffs
Cougar Cliffs sits north of St. George on UT-18, a thirty-minute drive past Snow Canyon and into the Pine Valley Mountain foothills outside Veyo.
Crawdad Canyon
Crawdad Canyon climbs a basalt drainage on the Veyo Pool property, twenty minutes north of St. George on UT-18.
Echo Canyon
Echo Canyon is the east-Zion technical canyon that drops from the East Rim plateau to the Weeping Rock area, six to ten hours of slot canyon with six to...
Hurricave / Hurricane Cliffs Sport
The Hurricave is a limestone cave sector cut into the Hurricane Cliffs, the long sandstone-and-limestone escarpment that rises east of Hurricane and runs...
Imlay Canyon
Imlay Canyon is the most committing technical canyon in Zion. Twelve to sixteen hours of slot canyon, more than twenty rappels, multiple keeper potholes...
Indian Creek
Indian Creek is three hours northeast of St. George via Hanksville and Moab, but every 435 trad climber treats it as the canonical crack-climbing destination.
Iron Messiah
Iron Messiah climbs about a thousand feet of Navajo sandstone on the east wall of Zion — long, moderate trad that draws climbers who want full-day...
Keyhole Canyon
Keyhole Canyon is the shortest technical canyon in Zion that requires a permit. Canyoneers park at a pullout on the Zion-Mt.
Kolob Canyons Trad
Kolob Canyons is the northwestern fifth of Zion National Park, accessed from I-15 exit 40 rather than from the main Zion entrance at Springdale.
Moonlight Buttress
Moonlight Buttress is twelve hundred feet of nearly vertical Navajo sandstone above the Virgin River, on the east face of the canyon a mile up Zion’s main...
Mystery Canyon
Mystery Canyon is the route that finishes with a rappel onto the Riverside Walk in front of Zion’s daytime hiking crowd.
Parowan Quartzite
Parowan Quartzite is a small bouldering and short-sport area in the desert flats north of Parowan, near the BLM-managed Parowan Gap.
Pine Creek
Pine Creek is the short technical canyon Zion canyoneers do first. The route drops from a parking pullout near the east end of the Zion-Mt.
Prodigal Sun
Prodigal Sun is one of the moderate big-wall classics on the Angels Landing massif in Zion — eight hundred feet of Navajo sandstone graded 5.
Sheer Lunacy
Sheer Lunacy is a bolted multi-pitch sport line in Zion — a rarity in a park whose climbing reputation is built almost entirely on trad and big-wall aid.
Shune's Buttress
Shune’s Buttress climbs the steep east face of one of Zion’s middle-canyon walls, eight hundred feet of Navajo sandstone graded 5.
Snow Canyon Climbing
Snow Canyon’s climbing is spread across a half-dozen pullouts along Snow Canyon Drive, the road that drops into the park from the Ivins entrance and climbs...
Spaceshot
Spaceshot is the easy entry to Zion big-wall climbing — a route on the east wall of the canyon graded 5. 7 C2 across roughly six hundred feet of Navajo...
Spry Canyon
Spry Canyon is the east-Zion technical canyon that pairs with Echo as the moderate-to-harder rotation on the park’s eastern slot system.
The Maze Bouldering
The Maze is a sandstone bouldering field on BLM benches north of Kanab, reached by a short drive on dirt roads that wind off the highway and dump into a...
The Narrows Top-Down
The Narrows top-down is the sixteen-mile traverse of the North Fork of the Virgin River from Chamberlain’s Ranch, on private land outside Zion’s northern...
The Subway
The Subway isn’t a hike. It is a six-to-ten-hour wade-and-rappel traverse of a slot canyon that ends back at the Riverside Walk in Zion.
Touchstone Wall
Touchstone is the moderate aid line on the east wall of Zion Canyon, eight hundred feet of Navajo sandstone above the Big Bend turnout on the scenic drive.
Tricks of the Trade
Tricks of the Trade is a multi-pitch trad route in Zion that climbs about five hundred feet of Navajo sandstone on a face accessible from the scenic drive.
Turtle Wall
Turtle Wall is the second crag off the Chuckwalla pullout — same gravel parking strip on Snow Canyon Parkway, same short uphill approach, then a left fork...
Virgin River Gorge
The Virgin River Gorge is a limestone canyon the Virgin River cut through the Beaver Dam Mountains, twenty minutes south of downtown St.
Wailing Wall
The Wailing Wall is the hard limestone face that crowns the Hurricane Cliffs sport development. Climbers approach it on a desert path off a BLM road north...
Welcome Springs / Welcome Spring Wall
Welcome Springs is a sport venue tucked into the desert flats north of Hurricane, on the BLM benches that climb away from the Virgin River corridor toward...