Top Best Tourist Climbing Areas
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Ok this isn't about the best climbing area, we all know that's Fremont Canyon, WY. It's not about the best sport climbing area, because that's obviously Pilot Mountain NC. Where is the most tourist laden climbing area? So many tourist you would be hard pressed to find a local? The destination worthy of an instaface post. Somewhere larger then life in climbing culture that draws folks from well... everywhere. The Tetons, The creek, The valley...Epinephrine? I'm not a big fan of crowds, tell me where I shouldn't go. |
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Garden of gods |
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Thailand |
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Red rock: Kraft boulders, black corridor, panty wall, actually any sport area in red rock and any trad line easier than 5.9 Red river gorge: chocolate factory, muir valley, etc Rumney |
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The entire state of CO. |
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Cayman Brac |
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Smith Rock has to be up there, at least the front side. |
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Acadia National park in Maine, and most specifically top roping at otter cliff |
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Red River Gorge |
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Lots of great suggestions. Anyone with anecdotal stories to support? Bonus points for stories with European climbers. |
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Josh |
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Carolinawrote: "you're not supposed to climb on wet sandstone, and it rained pretty hard yesterday" -> "We'll be extra careful, and the rock feels pretty solid. We flew all the way from New York, and this is our last day of climbing". -Personal encounter while on a hike through Kraft boulders |
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Most climbing destinations are going to have tourists these days. However, it's not common that tourists are actually AT most crag locations in my experience. This particularly applies to Colorado in my opinion. Tourists in the canyons pointing at the climbers, but not actually up at the walls. |
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Spy Mountain, in SoCal |
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Second Kalymnos. There may be less than a dozen locals on the island. |
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caughtinside wrote: And maybe three people who were born and raised there also climb there. |
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Pnelsonwrote: I know 2 of those 3 people |
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Niagara Glen bouldering in Niagara Falls, Ontario. |
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I'm still confused by the 'focus' of this topic, and from the responses others are as well. Do you want areas that attract 'non-climbing tourists' or ones that are primarily visited by 'touring climbers'--often quite different. For example, Muir Valley in the Red is always full of touring climbers, but not visited by too many non-climbing tourists. Pilot Mountain, N.C. probably has more non-climbing tourists. Otter Cliffs in Acadia sees loads of both. |
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Little Falls ny, yosemite of the east! |
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Lake Louise for non-climbing tourists. Kalymnos for climber-tourons. |




