High elevation sport climbing/camping?

I would like to take an early summer vacation to do some camping/sport climbing (perhaps bring my mountain bike if the area permits).

My primary purpose is to spend some time at higher elevation for training/acclimation purposes. I did a bit of cycle racing in college and went on a couple training trips like this. I found them to be great fun and lots of help in regards to my cardio base building.

Does anyone have an area in particular they would recommend?

You usually still have significant snow at the end of June up high. But try Lime Park.

Independence Pass has a lot of great climbing at high altitude and the pass usually opens in May. Indy Pass is also close to Buena Vista which has a lot of single track riding. The BV/Indy area has tons of free camping, good eateries and hot springs.

Here are some of the highest elevation areas with a notable amount of sport climbing:

Indy Pass, CO
Lime Park, CO
Various small CO areas, especially in SW CO
Uintas, UT
Ten Sleep, WY
Wild Iris, WY

Most of these areas are great at mid-summer, but may suffer from snow/seepage in early summer.

Also consider:
Rifle, CO
Monastery, CO
Devil's Head, CO
Maple Canyon, UT
Sinks Canyon, WY
Mt. Charleston, NV
Clark Canyon, CA
Mt Lemmon, AZ

These areas are mostly a bit lower, but are climbable earlier in the year than the truly alpine areas.

the fins, Idaho.
where are you from? where are you willing to travel to? if you are coming from LA, then really anywhere in the west would work, if you live above 5000 then spending much time at a sport destination at 8000 wont really do much, but it would be fun. You could go to vegas. there is a lot of "at elevation" sport climbing around there.

I can't believe Mike didn't mention it but Devil's Head is relatively high up and open in June. Not sure if this is true of climbing areas like Independence Pass, it depends on the snow. There's good camping at DH and you could conceivably mountain bike there but you might get run down by scooter trash. You'll have to bring a bunch of water as there is none up there.

cheers.
-chris

Wild Iris. It was open at the beginning of June when I was there last summer. I think it sits at around 9,000 feet. Amazing limestone climbing. Good amount of mtn biking around too. Sinks canyon and Tensleep nearby as well.

Thanks for the info.

Yes sorry I forgot to mention I am near Denver, (my Dad lives out in Grand Junction so traveling west is always an option).

Southern Colorado is more likely to have areas open to climbing sooner in the season I presume? I would like to go the second full week in June.

June... Maybe go check out the action in Telluride. Durango has good stuff too, just not as high. The mountain bike trails in Durango are off the hook, don't know how much Telluride has to offer except fire road switchbacks. Hermosa Creek trail is a classic.