Making a trip threw Colorado on my way back to Vermont. Any advice on the best sport climbing spots that would have free camping. We had to sink all of our money into new batteries for our solar house so gas is about all we can afford on the way back. Paying to camp not an option!
Thanks

Monastery is amazing-no crowds either...

It might be worth your while to spend a day or 2 in summit county. Check out white cliff www.mountainproject.com/v/white-cliff/106869718 you can camp for free up past keystone and while you're there, check out the climbing at around montezuma.

The Monastary is cool, but very different and you may want to have a 70m rope for some of the routes.

Head to Shelf, (UGH, IMHO an outdoor gym at times)
But the camping isn't that expensive, and here is heaps of climbing....

Or if your real hard core Rifle.....

I think I post up Devils Head at least twice a month. There is a pay campground right at the base, but tons of free camping all around. Best sport climbing close to Denver.

Rifle doesn't have free camping but it's only $5 a night and you can get free stuff if you don't mind driving a few miles down or up the road. Plenty to do at a number of grades as there are more and more moderate routes there now. There's other great sport climbing in the area with free camping so if you get the Rifle guidebook you can sample some of the other area stuff as well.

+1 for Devils Head.

You not only have to pay to camp at Rifle but you have the day use fee as well. There are other crags in the area but i dont know the camping situation for them

Lime Creek camping is free. Beautiful area too. Not sure if the roads are open yet.

+1 for Rifle with the best sport climbing in CO with cheap camping, Shelf Road is also great and has cheap camping, Boulder Canyon and Clear Creak Canyon are also great but no good camping.

Rifle has free camping if you go up the road past the pay camp ground.

There is some free camping in the Poudre Canyon. You can hit The Palace and the Three Tiers areas for some good sport.

I think there is some free camping in Nederland which would let you sport climb in Boulder Canyon. A crowd for sure, but good concentration of sport 5.8-5.13.

I would also have to recommend Clear Creek Canyon as it is awesome, but no free camping that i know of around Golden.

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Ouray is 90 min. south of Grand Junction. Pool Wall (75 routes) on hard metamorphised? sandstone, Jimmy Cliff/Overlook (limestone) and quartzite on Red Mountain Pass. Free camping and friendly locals to show you around. In the heart of the San Juan Mtns, and you could even get some corn skiing in. Short approaches and definitely no crowds.