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Maryland

Description 

From the Chesapeake Bay to the hills beyond Hagerstown there is climbing to be found in Maryland, although most of the climbing can be found in central Maryland.

Rock State Park, Carderrock, A-Rock, and other various climbing locations are generally small, short but have beautiful setting and fun moves. Finding a local that knows where the classics are is defintely the crux of Maryland climbing.

Indoors gyms are extremely common, generally huge, and well-kept.


Getting There 

Maryland is a state, there are only 50, learn them know them, and even though the East coast states are small we have fierce devotion to our repective home states so don't say "oh! that is one of the small ones over by..." if you want to make friends.


Guidebooks 

Eric Horst's Rock Climbing Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland does the best job of getting you from area to area and helping you to find the routes.

Tim Toula's aging Rock and Road does a decent job giving you an idea of what to expect out of Maryland climbing


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Maryland:
Tea and Scrumpet   V4     Boulder, 1 pitch, 10 feet   Carderock
Center Stage and All Alone   A2 PG13     Trad, Aid, 1 pitch, 80 feet, Grade II   Maryland Heights, MD : Train Tunnel Wall
Vertical   5.6     Trad, TR, 70 feet   Rocks State Park : Breakaway Wall
Seven Wishes   5.6     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 50 feet   Sugarloaf Mountain : Middle Earth
Sterling's Crack   5.7     TR, 45 feet   Carderock
Jan's Face   5.7+     TR, 1 pitch, 40 feet   Carderock
Strawberry Jam   5.8+     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   Rocks State Park : Pinnacle
Blue Rose   5.8+     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 30 feet   Patapsco State Park : Ilchester
Hidden Art   5.9     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 40 feet   Patapsco State Park : Friction Wall
Breakaway left   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   Rocks State Park : Breakaway Wall
Herbie's Horror   5.9     TR, 25 feet   Carderock
Ounce of Perception   5.9 PG13     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 75 feet   Annapolis Rock : Faint's Roof
Breakaway Right   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   Rocks State Park : Breakaway Wall
Black Crack   5.9+     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   Annapolis Rock : The South End
Strawberry Jam Direct   5.10a PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   Rocks State Park : Pinnacle
The Truth   5.10+     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Patapsco State Park : Friction Wall
Midnight Lightning   5.10+     TR, 1 pitch, 25 feet   Patapsco State Park : Ilchester
The Broadcast   5.10+     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   Maryland Heights, MD : Union Walls
Buckets of Blood Arete   5.11     TR, 1 pitch, 25 feet   Carderock
Black Tie Affair   5.12     Trad, 2 pitches, 170 feet   Maryland Heights, MD : Train Tunnel Wall
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Featured Route For Maryland
Black Crack - Annapolis Rocks

Black Crack 5.9+  MD : Annapolis Rock : The South End


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Left fork rocks in the Frederick watershed.

Left fork rocks in the Frederick watershed.

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By Mike Mu.
Oct 9, 2007

For a better description of Maryland Climbing check out Indy's Climb Maryland book. Here is the link for amazon.com.
www.amazon.com/Climb-Maryland-Mark-Indy-Kochte/dp/0966343131>>>
It is more thorough than any other guide. Maryland, when you actually go looking has a lot of climbable rock, you just need to get out there and find it.

By John Kelbel
From: Eldersburg, Maryland
Feb 24, 2010

For Rock locations in Patapsco State Park and the west side of Baltimore check out patapscorock.blogspot.com

By Robin Close
From: Columbia, Maryland
Mar 3, 2012

If anyone's interested in checking out videos of Maryland bouldering, I've added a video page to my blog with links to all that I could find, with the exception of a few from areas with questionable access. To access the page, go to robinclose.blogspot.com and click on the "Maryland Bouldering Videos" tab at the top. I also post regularly about any climbing that I do, and have compiled a lot of Northwest Branch bouldering information under the "Northwest Branch" tab. Clicking on the names below the boulder photos will take you to pages with more information about the cliimbs on each.