Climbing on highway bridges?

Saw pictures of the Maple Bridge in Redmond. Are there any other places like this? What about public climbing walls in general?

Whoa what do you think this is, Europe? Public climbing walls? You think cities/states want to get sued?

PNW Choss wrote: Whoa what do you think this is, Europe? Public climbing walls? You think cities/states want to get sued?

They exist, including in the PNW. There are public climbing walls at Magnuson, Marymoor and Torguson parks.

Public climbing in Columbus, OH:
​https://www.metroparks.net/parks-and-trails/scioto-audubon/​​​

There were bridges and underpasses with routes in SoCal. However, none of them were officially sanctioned. 

PNW Choss wrote: Whoa what do you think this is, Europe? Public climbing walls? You think cities/states want to get sued?

Last time I was at the Redmond bridge (2016) it was closed because the city's insurance company wouldn't cover it. Hopefully that has changed. 

https://climbmaplebridge.com/

It says it's open again. 

Tyler Jaszwrote:

They exist, including in the PNW. There are public climbing walls at Magnuson, Marymoor and Torguson parks.

Plus Les Gove in Auburn, the Kenticle in Kent, that weird one in south Tacoma and a few others.

a few spots on the blue ridge parkway bridges that are less than legal but good climbing.

One of my formative experiences was getting arrested for belying my buddy up a fist crack on a building in Amarillo, TX back in the 90s.

Go for it.

golden gate wall in oakland - endless finger traverse, awesome thin hands crack

We do this all of time in Germany. It has served me well during corona restrictions. I do it all of the time. I even top rope soloed so bridges. There's even a guide book in German.

https://klettern-shop.de/kletterfuehrer/1239-buildering-spots-deutschland

Once you start to look, you'll see lines all over the place... churches towers, civil engineering stuff.

John Reevewrote:

One of my formative experiences was getting arrested for belying my buddy up a fist crack on a building in Amarillo, TX back in the 90s.

Go for it.

the spots I am thinking of are out of view of the road and bouldering only... almost got in trouble in college for climbing the cool stone buildings haha

I did it on a bridge in DC in 1976.  Almost got arrested by the cops.

Be careful!!!

1980's bridge climbing.  Back when we used 1" tubular webbing for quickdraws, sticht plates and twin ropes. 

There is buildering just about everywhere. Not necessarily always legal though; just don't be too conspicuous. Generally the worse that will happen is you get run off. We used to have a buildering circuit at Oklahoma U.

Richmond, VA has a park with a few old railroad bridge towers officially equiped for climbing. Not as epic as Maple Bridge looks. The guide (downloadable from page) claims 43 routes 5.4 -5.11a.

https://jamesriverpark.org/project/manchester-climbing-wall/

I think it's a pretty cool re-purpose of 'abandoned' infrastructure.