Located in BIrdsboro, PA. Use the cables to cross Hay Creek and follow the sign to the climbing areas. There are over 70 bolted sport routes ranging from 5.6 to 5.14. Climbs are located on the upper level and at the resevoir level. There are also multi pitch slab climbs located across the resevoir. G
Getting There
Take 422 west, take a left on 82 into Birdsboro. Ignore the "road closed" signs and go all the way to the closure into Hay Creek Park. Cross the creek twice, using the cables (or walk through the creek). Please do NOT trespass on to Haines and Kibblehouse property.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Birdsboro Quarry:
Alright climbing. bolts are in good shape are replaced when needed. Wear a helmet! this is an old quarry and I've seen my climbing partner shift 2 coffee table size flakes no problem. Giant wall gets great sun and on a 40 degree sunny day can be quite enjoyable to climb. Does have some ice in winter, though top roping is sketchy to rig. Lower slabs have a tendency to be wet but offer some fun climbs.
BEWARE! Some rock is reglued!
Definitely not best climbing spot in the world, but one of the better ones in Eastern PA!
I'm putting up the route list as listed in the super helpful map someone else put together. I suggest looking at the map. PLEASE provide positive feedback.
Sweet, thanks. I've been looking for info on individual routes here for years. If you've climbed/seen them, would you mind listing distinguishing features, i.e. crack, corner, etc.
I'll be editing and adding in more information about the routes with some more detailed description of the climbing, bolt counts, anchor descriptions and some photos. Hopefully people do the same and help out. It's pretty tedious getting all these routes up and listed at once.
Luke, if you're interested in creating New Areas for each section at Birdsboro, you can go ahead and make them and fill them with routes.
I thought about creating new areas but decided against it. Birdsboro is kinda small and the idea of creating new areas for each section of the wall, then adding routes didn't seem to make much sense. More importantly, I wanted to be able to search for routes by grade throughout birdsboro using the "Routes best for me" feature. I put the name of the wall each climb is on in the "Location".
More routes have gone up in the last several weeks. The guys who do a lot of the route setting are going to be working on topos and possibly a website.
Ill be visting family in PA in few weeks and i think id like to climb here. what kind of traffic does it get mid august? i had no idea there was climbing like this in PA. how big of a rack should i bring? any trad or is it all bolted? Any info is appreciated, thanks.
A website has been created for birdsboro. It is a static site at this time. It presently only has a link to info. on the recently passed annual clean and climb. The site is birdsbororockclimbing.org As I understand it, further site development is forthcoming.
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