[Hide Comment] If you are in Louisville and are interested in a good hike ending with a few boulders with interesting features, and the sense of adventure, check these out.

If you are more than an hour away and are interested in a high concentration of established problems, level trails, short approaches, and lots of people around to admire your shirtless struggle, this area is not for you. Oct 29, 2013

[Hide Comment] Are there more routes? Sep 8, 2016

[Hide Comment] Cfresh - there could be if you put them up. This is an almost entirely undeveloped area. I wouldn't get your hopes up, but it is a pretty hike to go check it out! Mar 15, 2017

[Hide Comment] Are there any update on the routes of this area? If not, I'd be keen to develop it some more. I'm just worried about saying I did an FA when someone else already has and renaming the route :) Jul 5, 2017

[Hide Comment] I think you'll find FA's in the area are unlikely to be contested. Go slap some chalk on those boulders! Aug 28, 2017

[Hide Comment] There are three videos of the climbs:

The original video: vimeo.com/31777191

The new stuff: vimeo.com/90253134

The stuff at the end of the orange trail: vimeo.com/41898668

map: i198.photobucket.com/albums…> Oct 17, 2017

[Hide Comment] I checked this out since everything else was closed.

tl;dr: It's quite the hike through hills and creeks to get to a small selection of boulder problems you can string together into a traversal.

Longer: The hike is kinda brutal if you're bringing crashpads and other gear, some kind of approach shoes is required. I'm not an avid hiker so the hike in took a lot longer, but on the way out it is more downhill. Once you get to the creek it's the point of no return, you either dig in and get to the boulders at the end or turn back. You're not going to see them until you're up close so it's a little demoralizing but push through to the clearing on the left and past the first obelisk boulder will be the one featured in the photos above. Great grippy rock with fun holds but the approach was a little too involved for what you get. May 2, 2020

[Hide Comment] The approach is difficult: follow the blue trail up and down some hills (mud in the spring) for about 40 mins to intersect the yellow trail. Look up the trails on the Hiking Project app. Where the two trails meet there is a tree with three colored ribbons around it on the right. You leave the yellow trail after about 7 mins of easy going walking and go down into the slippery creek bed. Wear proper hiking boots for this part since there’s a lot of mossy slick rocks and there’s a bit of hiking over big piles of leaves with some holes underneath (ankle breakers). Walk on for about 15 mins to reach the boulders. You can’t see the boulders from the start of the creek part of the trail but you’ll start seeing some sandstone rocks on the top of the valley that the creek cuts through after 10 mins, and at a certain point you have to leave the creek bed because there’s a fallen tree that blocks the way. Go up the left side of the creek valley in order to get to one really nice sandstone boulder and one very cool looking boulder with a precarious landing. The tricky part is finding these boulders. Kudos to the first person who wandered down that path with a crashpad. May 2, 2020

[Hide Comment] Grippy rock you say? May 12, 2020

[Hide Comment] With fun holds? May 12, 2020