Saint Peter's Village Bouldering

St. Peter's Village is the remnants of an old company town that has been preserved and now updated into a quaint little area. Adjacent to the Village's one and only street is a creek on one side and a flooded quarry pit on the other. Don't trespass on the land around the flooded quarry pit. The land on the other side of the creek from the stores is on State Game Lands 43 and it is legal to climb there.

     For some reason it has become an accepted tradition for the local youth to spray paint the boulders and trees in the woods here, and from what I've seen there is little to no effort to stop it or clean what has been done already. Along with the crowd that would spraypaint nature comes the occassional litter of bottles and small garbage, although this has become somewhat less of an issue in recent years but I would stil bring a bag to help clean the area up. In addition to the graffiti issue there is a sprawling network of wildly branching and intersecting trails often without blazes, a gps capable device will be nice because what looks like a trail soon becomes a light bushwack towards a pile of rocks and all of the sudden there's no trail.

     The topography of the area is unique, pocked with small sinkhole like structures that occasionally hide gems for climbing, but more often hide a soggy mud pit under the leaves, walk into these at your own judgement. Rocks worth the effort to climb here are seemingly few and far between, partially because many of the larger rocky areas were quarried for the stone. Cracks and drill scars can still be seen on some of the larger intact pieces, be wary of what you pull on. That being said there is some good rock here, you just need to be willing to really explore to find it and once you do it will need brushing and potentially building/manicuring/clearing a landing. When modifying landings in any way please take a moment to do so in a way that is as LNT as possible.

    First thing that should be done is mapping the trail system and subsequently the hotspots worth dropping pads and climbing.