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Quarry Park (St. Cloud)

Submitted By: Jeff Kolehmainen on Jun 8, 2008
Administrators: Glenn Burns, Darin Limvere, James Loveridge
Latitude: 45.5355  Longitude: -94.2416 
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Description 

Quarry Park & Nature Preserve is an old quarry in Stearns County near St. Cloud. It contains about 17 "routes" that are between 20-30 feet tall. It is a Stearns County Park and has its own guidelines for climbing which can be found on their website at http://www.co.stearns.mn.us/1450.htm#Rock

Registration is required to climb and there is a fee to use the park. Quarry park also has some swimming holes which are fun when the weather gets too hot to climb.


Getting There 

From St. Cloud, take State Highway 23 west to 10th Ave. S in Waite Park. Take 10th Ave South to 7th St South. Turn West onto 7th St S (becomes Cty Rd 137). The park entrance is 0.7 miles on the south side of the road (watch for signage).


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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Quarry Park (St. Cloud):
Six Foot Flake   5.5     Sport, 1 pitch, 20 feet   
Six Foot Direct   5.6     TR, 1 pitch, 20 feet   
The Front Page   5.8     Sport, 1 pitch, 20 feet   
Black Ice   5.11c     Sport, 1 pitch, 25 feet   
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By Ryan Justen
From: grand junction, CO
Sep 22, 2008

This is a fun craig, climbs are short, but challenging. Some of the ratings may be a bit sandbagged (or old-school, depending on how you look at it...)

One word of warning is that only about 3 of the climbs have anchors, and they are a 2-bolt anchors that are a few feet back from the face on the top granite. There is also no cracks or seems in the granite to place traditional pro for an anchor...

The route on the wall left of the 5.11c (it's 5.8 or 5.9?) has 3 bolts and no anchors. So there is no way to clean your draws, except by anchoring from a tree, which is NOT permitted by the guidelines for the craig.

By DANoWAR
From: Apple Valley, MN
May 19, 2009

An alright place if you are in the area for the day. The climb site is behind a bunch of old structures they used in the quarry. The ratings are very under-rated. I tried putting up a 5.8 off the start and it felt more like a .10b towards the top.

There are not many anchors, so bring some trad and a good length of webbing. Very wet area... so lots of mud and bugs.

The routes are pretty short... three bolts or so. Most also have a really hard section (different than a regular crux) and the rest of the climb is pretty simple. Seems to me that they rated these routes based on the average of ratings between each bolt. (One 5.12a section, with two 5.10c sections= a 5.11c route)