Tennessee Guidebooks

FEATURED: Stone Fort Bouldering (3rd Edition)

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This is a comprehensive and updated guidebook for this superb climbing area. The book contains more than 600 documented boulder problems, and with its update, contains a dozen or so new problems.

Chatt Trad

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The Chatt Trad guide book is a comprehensive guidebook to the Chattanooga area including places like T-Wall, Sunset Park, Suck Creek, The Promised Land, and Big Soddy Gorge

Old Wauhatchie Bouldering

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Official guide made in partnership with the Lookout Mountain Conservancy which receives 50% of the proceeds. One-time purchase, no subscription, updates included for free.

Old Wauhatchie Bouldering Guide

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With over 175 boulder problems, this Old Wauhatchie bouldering guide is continuously updated by local author Mario Morante. 10% of all proceeds go back to the Lookout Mountain Conservancy to help preserve this area.

Guide to the Boulders on Old Wauhatchie Pike

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A pamphlet guide put together for the 2019 Wauhatchie BoulderFest, an all-comers grand opening event for this boulder field, presented by High Point Climbing & Fitness, and put on by Access Fund and SCC, benefitting the landowner and manager, Lookout Mountain Conservancy.

Chatt Steel North

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Finally, we got our act together and have put the labor and love into the second edition of Chatt Steel. There are so many new routes and areas in the guide that we had to break it up into two books. This is Chatt Steel North which features the areas of Leda, Deep Creek, Big Soddy, Dinner Branch and additional Graysville areas, Dogwood routes, Laurel Falls, and Buzzard Point.

Chatt Steel South

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A comprehensive guide to Chattanooga's sport climbing.
Locations:
Foster Falls
Denny Cove
Castle Rock
Prentice Cooper

Little Crimpers, a Rock Climbing Guide to Clarksville, Tennessee.

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This guidebook contains most routes at King's Bluff, but it's missing a few because of the relatively outdated information and first ascents since it was published. It also contains some information about climbing in the general vicinity of Clarksville as well. Most of the routes in this book are covered by simple topos (no pictures), but in some sections, the routes are merely listed.

Chattrad: A Comprehensive Guide to Chattanooga Trad Climbing

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548 Color pages covering Trad climbs to Sunset Park, Suck Creek Canyon, Tennessee Wall,Promised Land, and Big Soddy Gorge

The Obed: A Climber's Guide to the Wild and Scenic

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Though it's been covered in guidebooks like the Dixie Cragger's Atlas, it's hard to do justice to an area the size of the Obed in a single state-wide climbing guide. Now, it has its own dedicated guidebook. The Obed: A Climber's Guide to the Wild and Scenic covers the Obed proper, along with North and South Clear Creek, Lilly Bluff, Little Clear Creek and Y-12. There's also a section on Lilly Boulders. Loads of color photos and cliff diagrams make this a must-have for anyone planning a trip to the Obed.

STONE FORT Bouldering

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The Tennessee Wall: A Rockclimber's Guide

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The newest guide to southern rock climbing is The Tennessee Wall: A Rockclimber's Guide by Rob Robinson. This is the first book of its kind devoted solely to T-Wall, and it has the added value of being authored by one of the crag's pioneers.

The Dixie Cragger's Pocket Guide to Tennessee Wall

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This handy guide is really just a separately-bound version of the Tennesee Wall chapter in the main Dixie Cragger's Atlas. The reduced size and weight will make the long T-Wall approach trail a little easier.

The Dixie Cragger's Atlas - A Climber's Guide to Tennessee

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The Dixie Cragger's Atlas has long been a climber's bible for the southeast (Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama). A longtime climber himself, author Chris Watford has not only ticked many of the routes in his guidebooks, but also has his share of first ascents at some of the region's premier crags.

The latest version of the DCA gives Tennesee a separate volume to itself. A substantial number of new routes have been added, as well as several new areas such as Big South Fork. The guide also includes narratives on the history of climbing at each area; topos and cliffline photos; and great shots of climbers on routes by noted photographers like Harrison Shull.

The DCA is available at area climbing stores, or online at the DCA website (click the "Purchase this Item" link above).