Moving to Arizona

I’m potentially moving to Flagstaff in the next month and I was wondering where I should be looking to find climbing there. I can’t seem to find anything on mountain project and I’m not sure which books to buy. Any help is appreciated. I’m moving from western NC so I mostly read climb but I love sport as well. 

Hi beau — on the route database, select arizona/northern Arizona/flagstaff area.  You’ll find about 700 routes in Flagstaff proper, 3,500+/- for the northern part of the state.  For the northern part of the state, there is a rough split sport/trad/Boulder, with more trad than other categories.  Route finder allows you to search by specific route attributes, such as quality, pitches, difficult, etc.

Brian Boydwrote:

Hi beau — on the route database, select arizona/northern Arizona/flagstaff area.  You’ll find about 700 routes in Flagstaff proper, 3,500+/- for the northern part of the state.  For the northern part of the state, there is a rough split sport/trad/Boulder, with more trad than other categories.  Route finder allows you to search by specific route attributes, such as quality, pitches, difficult, etc.

Thanks! I tried typing all kinds of stuff into the search bar and nothing was coming up, must have been missing something. 

Flagstaff has a ton of climbing.  Like Brian said there are equal amounts of trad, sport and bouldering along with Basalt, Limestone, Sandstone, Dacite.  For the newer area like The Peaks, Hobo Jungle, Solitude, Sycamore Point, Newer Sedona, Winslow Wall you will have to use MP and get those local climbing partners.  Cheap Way to Fly, Better Way to Die, Jacks Canyon, The Pit guides have been the standard guides for lots of years.

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/107448766/flagstaff-area

I lived in Flagstaff for more than a decade, and the climbing there is CHOICE!  The problem is the climbing community tends to be very tight-lipped and a little competitive. It's different than CO, where people talk about everything they are working on all the time - spray,  spray, spray all day long. In Flagstaff, go to the gyms and talk to locals, and you can find some true hidden gems. Developers are busy and able, putting new things up all over. Definitely talk to the locals. (The more they tell you an area sucks or isn't worth the trip - the better you know it is! Cagey bastards for sure. I didn't understand the culture in Colorado AT ALL when I moved here.)

Also, most the best climbing tends to be below ground. Driving out to Winslow, you can see nothing but desert brush for 100 miles any direction, and one thinks, "What? How can there be climbing here?" But when you stand next to the canyon rim, it drops 300-500 feet straight down in some places. Alot of the climbing is rappelling in and climbing back out. Winslow Wall, Oak Creek, Paradise Forks, etc. are all drop-from-the-top.

Good luck if you move to Flag! It's grown a lot in the last couple decades, but that place is dreamy. I would move back in a heartbeat if my family wasn't tied to the Front Range now.