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The Promised Land Rock Climbing
| Elevation: | 5,000 ft |
| GPS: | 34.815, -112.408 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
| Page Views: | 34,162 total · 219/month |
| Shared By: | Orphaned on Jan 20, 2006 |
| Admins: | Luke Bertelsen, JJ Schlick, Greg Opland |
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Description
The Promised Land is a canyon cleft in the grassy plains northeast of the city of Prescott (and basically east of Chino Valley). The rock is bullet hard (can be pretty smooth/slick in places) and features hand-friendly holds. This is a sport climbing area, so routes are well bolted. You will likely run into other climbers here, but not too many at one time.
Getting There
Drive north on highway 89 from Prescott, through Chino Valley to Perkinsville Road, then...
Courtesy of BWPete:
The Promised Land is somewhat hard to find the first time, as there are many roads which crisscross each other. Heading from Prescott take 89north into chino valley. turn right on perkinsvill road. follow perkinsvill road for a couple of miles till you come to hidden ranch road. there is a large sign out front. turn left. after a short distance the road splits, take the left road and parallel the right fork. when you come to a large area that has an eroded dirt pad with ATV tracks all over it, turn left, and follow that road (trending left) till you come to a white gate. turning right or left after the gate will take you there, but the right hand road is slightly less difficult. park in the flat dirt pad, and walk down the canyon to get to the routes. there is an approach trail marked by cairns, or the impact of just walking in the sandy wash is very low. there is great camping down canyon in the wash, be sure to follow LNT ethics.
Courtesy of Marcy:
The hidden ranch road is called "Haystack Road". I drive a Honda CRV (not 4wd) and drove in (at night) turning left after the gate. Had no issues...just a few slow spots and some new desert pinstriping. Drove out in the daytime and, not realizing until reaching the gate, took the alternate road (going out, turning right after the gate, as BWpete describes above). I agree that this road is less difficult and therfore took less travel time from parking lot to gate (also no pinstriping!).
Courtesy of BWPete:
The Promised Land is somewhat hard to find the first time, as there are many roads which crisscross each other. Heading from Prescott take 89north into chino valley. turn right on perkinsvill road. follow perkinsvill road for a couple of miles till you come to hidden ranch road. there is a large sign out front. turn left. after a short distance the road splits, take the left road and parallel the right fork. when you come to a large area that has an eroded dirt pad with ATV tracks all over it, turn left, and follow that road (trending left) till you come to a white gate. turning right or left after the gate will take you there, but the right hand road is slightly less difficult. park in the flat dirt pad, and walk down the canyon to get to the routes. there is an approach trail marked by cairns, or the impact of just walking in the sandy wash is very low. there is great camping down canyon in the wash, be sure to follow LNT ethics.
Courtesy of Marcy:
The hidden ranch road is called "Haystack Road". I drive a Honda CRV (not 4wd) and drove in (at night) turning left after the gate. Had no issues...just a few slow spots and some new desert pinstriping. Drove out in the daytime and, not realizing until reaching the gate, took the alternate road (going out, turning right after the gate, as BWpete describes above). I agree that this road is less difficult and therfore took less travel time from parking lot to gate (also no pinstriping!).
Classic Climbing Routes at The Promised Land
Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.
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Guidebooks (5)
Scottsdale
From Chino Valley, turn right (East) onto the signed road for Perkinsville Road. Zero your odometer and follow the below instructions. Keep in mind that these can change and there is more than one route to this climbing area.
After 3.3 miles, the paved road ends. Keep going straight
After 4.4 miles, turn left onto the signed junction with Haystack Road.
After 5.0 miles, stay left (going right leads into a housing development)
After 6.0 miles, stay right and go through an opening in a fence and cattle guard.
After 6.5 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 6.6 miles, stay right at the fork.
After 7.2 miles, stay left and go through an opening in a fence.
After 7.4 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 7.6 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 7.7 miles, stay left again.
After 7.9 miles, stay right at the fork.
After 8.0 miles, head through an opening in the fence and keep straight.
After 8.9 miles, youll see a fork with a windmill and water tank on your right, turn left here. The road gets pretty rocky and rutted from this point. A high clearance vehicle is needed.
After 10.0 miles, youll be able to see the canyon in the distance and a primitive parking area. May 17, 2009
AZ
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Thanks to Scott for getting us there, just a few minor corrections given some of Transwestern's little changes to the area! Trip report:
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-Tony :) Jul 20, 2012
Flagstaff, Arizona
Joshua Tree, CA
Seattle, WA
1) All directions up to "After 8.0 miles, head through an opening in the fence and keep straight." went really well
2) After going through this opening you should go RIGHT
3) After ~0.1-0.2 miles there is a fork with a yellow gas line sign in the middle. Take the LEFT road
4) You will then go by the previously referenced windmill + water tank and keep left.
5) The road will go by an opening in a fence. Do NOT go through the fence (even though the road looks better that way). Stay LEFT. Note: there is some washout here which was the one location where high clearance was necessary.
6) Continue on this road until you see the dirt parking lot on the right. Nov 3, 2017
We were at Promised Land yesterday and the climbing is still fantastic!
Since the road conditions continue to change, I thought I'd take a moment to update a confirmed route to get to the parking area. Arizona received above average rains in September/October and it has caused some of the spots on the road to get worse. With the current road conditions, a high clearance vehicle is absolutely required.
From Chino Valley, turn right (East) onto the signed road for Perkinsville Road (now a roundabout). Zero your odometer and follow the below instructions. Keep in mind that these can change and there is more than one route to this climbing area.
After 3.3 miles, the paved road ends. Keep going straight
After 4.4 miles, turn left onto the signed junction with Haystack Road.
After 5.0 miles, stay left (going right leads into a housing development)
After 6.0 miles, stay right and go through an opening in a fence and cattle guard.
After 6.5 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 6.6 miles, stay right at the fork.
After 7.2 miles, stay left and go through an opening in a fence.
After 7.4 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 7.6 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 7.7 miles, stay left again.
After 7.9 miles, stay left at the fork.
After 8.0 miles, head through an opening in the fence take an immediate right turn.
After 8.2 miles, take a left at the fork. There are yellow gas signs here. Soon you'll be able to see the windmill and a water tank. Continue to keep left.
After 8.9 miles, stay left
After 9.4 miles, you'll reach an opening in a barbed wire fence. If you were to continue on this road, in about 0.1 miles, you will see the road has washed out pretty badly and would be impassible for all but the highest clearance vehicles. We found the best way around this obstacle was to go right through this fence opening and drive about 0.1 miles to a faint path heading back towards the barbed wire fence. Take this faint path by turning left and going back through a different opening in the fence. After passing through the fence, turning right will put you back on track and gets you around the nasties.
The road gets pretty rocky and rutted from this point, so take it slow and be smart.
After 10.2 miles, you'll be able to see the canyon in the distance and a primitive parking area. There's a short, rocky section here and then you'll reach the parking area/campsite.
Enjoy! Nov 4, 2018