Rough Blocks Buttress Rock Climbing

Drive to Spearfish Canyon Lodge on Highway 14a and turn onto Roughlock Falls Road. Do not park in the paved parking lot for Spearfish Canyon Lodge. Instead, drive up a ways farther and turn left into a gravel parking lot for Roughlock Falls Trail. Remember! Early birds get the best parking spots! Park your vehicle, get out, and grab your gear. Hike to the Roughlock Falls trailhead, cross a bridge and turn left when the trail forks. Walk for about 50 feet until you find a gigantic, pyramid-shaped boulder just off the right hand side of the trail. Jump up onto the embankment and follow the trail that starts in front of this tall, slabby boulder. The trail is faint, rocky, and a touch steep but the hiking is over in less than ten minutes. You know you've ended up in the right place when you come across a tall, blonde blade of rocking sticking out of this trail when it starts to get really steep and obnoxious. At the top of the trail turn right to access the Rough Blocks Cliff crag. If you take the trail that forks left, you will end up at the Pin Stripes Crag and eventually (after a long, miserable jaunt) at the Indian Wars Wall.