The Lost Crag - CLOSED TO CLIMBING Rock Climbing

You can approach The Lost Crag from either a top or bottom parking lot. Both are roughly 1 ½ miles long and will take around 35 minutes to walk. The bottom approach is more steep and strenuous on the way up and in, but then, easier and quicker on the way down and out. It has the advantage of being mostly shaded the entire way. The approach from the top is exposed to sun for the first ¾ mile, but it is a more gently rolling approach. The top lot can only accommodate a dozen cars, whereas the bottom lot is enormous.

FROM THE TOP: Park at [39.903923, -79.567555] in the obvious parking area before the gate on the dirt road. Please park smart. On nice weekend days, this lot will fill up. If multiple cars are in your party, please park two deep. If the lot is full DO NOT BLOCK THE GATE and do not park on the side of the road where any portion of your tires are on the road. There is an upper overflow lot at the dogleg in the road that is 1/4 mile before arriving at this lot. There is room there to accommodate another 10 cars. Another option on days when the upper lot is full, is to park at the bottom and approach from there.

1. From the gate, walk on the dirt road for about 10 minutes (.5 m) until you arrive at a fork.   [39.908531, -79.573256].
2. Take the left hand fork and continue for another 4 minutes (.2 m). You'll crest a small hill and start to walk down again when you'll notice  tall pine trees on both sides of the road. Look for the overgrown grass covered road on your right. [39.909878, -79.576722].
3. Turn right onto the grass covered road and walk for approximately 5 minutes (0.3m). Follow this road until it starts gently downhill. Pay attention here as this is the easiest turn to miss! Look for a small clearing with a grove of trees on your right. At the end of this clearing look for a path             that leads into the woods. Presently there is a cairn there, but we can’t know for sure if that will remain there. GPS for this point is [39.912420, -79.579284].
4. Once you enter the woods, you'll head to your right for 50 yards and then connect with an old ATV trail that descends gently through the woods. Continue descending for about 10 minutes until you pass a dry stream bed immediately after which we have placed debris on the path and cairns to direct you to turn right into the woods onto a worn footpath.
5. The footpath meanders a bit and will require that you are paying attention. Be on the lookout for cairns. You'll wind around some boulders and meander more before crossing another small stream bed.
6. Shortly after the second stream (very little water -small enough to step across) you'll come to several fallen trees along the path at which point you'll see another cairn that marks a short uphill section of path that leads to the crag. [39.918973, -79.581600]

FROM THE BOTTOM: Park in the large gravel parking lot. 39.93180, -79.58778

1. Walk around the gate at the far upper right end of the lot (Southeast corner). (There are multiple gates, this is the only gate that has clear access to a road. Don't go to the gate down the main road that dead ends at the creek. Don't go to the gate to the left of this gate up the giant hillside power lines. Got to the one in the middle.) 
2. Walk .9 mile uphill on the fire road (Limestone Run Rd) to reach a small wooden bridge. (Don't think covered bridge, think wooden platform)
3. At 100 yards beyond the bridge, go right at the “Y” on an old logging road. (Bear right)
4. **This is the point where people get lost. Be careful here that you continue on this road for 300 yards until you reach a small field 39.92074, -79.57729. There is another small(er) field on the right that is 150 yards after you take the right fork described above in #3. Do not turn into this first field, but instead continue walking another 150 yards in order to reach the second field (total of 300 yards from the “Y”). (As of 2021 there is 1 planted apple tree with a ring around it in the middle of the field)
5. In the upper left corner of this field you'll see an opening into the woods that marks the beginning of an old fire trail that leads steeply uphill to your destination. 
6. Continue uphill, following cairns, for about 10 minutes. You'll cross over other trails on the way up. Eventually you'll see The Lost Crag 100 yards up the hill on the right side of the trail. There will be cairns marking short trails from the fire trail to the various blocks where we climb. The first trail will take you directly to Short Stack. The second trail to Entrance Block