Rosendale Waterworks Climbing Access Opened

Rosendale Waterworks Climbing Access To Be Announced by the Mohonk Preserve!

On Monday, September 27th, the Mohonk Preserve will be announcing the beginning of public climbing and bouldering visits to the Rosendale Waterworks parcel, which has been recently acquired by the Open Space Conservancy, the acquisition affiliate of the Open Space Institute. The Waterworks parcel is being managed by the Mohonk Preserve.

Visits to the site are available to Mohonk Preserve climbing members and Mohonk Preserve Climbing day pass holders. Visits are by reservation only, and are led by Mohonk Preserve volunteers. To sign up for announcements regarding visits click the link below, or visit Eventbrite.com and search Waterworks Climbing Tour in the location Rosendale.

http://www.eventbrite.com/rss/user_list_events/5666284272

The events go online and are viewable only 48 hours before the day of the event. Volunteers are lined up to give tours on upcoming Saturdays and Sundays until the snow falls.

The Gunks Climbers' Coalition was the catalyst that made this climbing area possible. We continue fund raising efforts to help defray the costs of managing this new area. Please contribute to our Rosendale Waterworks Project Fund by visiting our GCC website donation page and sending in your online donation via PayPal. We thank all who have contributed time and/or money to this effort and look forward to your continuing support.

Any questions, contact gcc@gunksclimbers.org

Any updates on this? Has bouldering here been opened to the public yet?

Thanks.

Michael,

Bouldering has been open to the public since the original post, in 2010. Your best bet if you want to visit is to stop in at Rock and Snow and get directions.

view of the rock rift

that is the Hart of the Gunks.

if you go in down the rail trail

Look on google maps, find where Cottage Lane is marked, that is wrong, Two properties back toward New Paltz is a long driveway that is marked by a street sign and shows dwellings at the end is Cottage Lane.

if you use it as a landmark the waterworks is a ten minute walk from the rail trail.

Should I include more ? It is all a great loop bike ride!

( also I think there is a street, Davis?? That also has a section to drop in from where it first runs parallel to the rail trail.for a landmark, again the strange evidence of property line contests
Should show the well beaten siding that was on the original sand hill farm deed.)

although markers were moved and changed the historic structures most likely will remain until . . . ? Also, farther into the neighborhood there was an old paved roadway into the old waterworks mine site,???
I have not checked any of this on the google maps in years so things may have changed , certainly the house that is the best way to the top of ridge #1 has doubled in size. The property owners, at the end of Springtown road are like many very wary and anti trespass if you get threatened back down and leave if it goes farther shut up and have an attorney insist on The survey, not a copy be produced.

From a point, following a line from the entrance to the cemetery on Springtown/Elting road, Heading across the road and eventually across the rail trail into the woods for less than a mile, following a wide stoney trail, the first rocks will start to be just to your left,a ships prow like block and some(6) problems.

The best of the bouldering is to the right
(or at the top of the hill, to the right : Hart sight )
if you are looking up the rocky road-like trail,

Take a short piece of rope 70 to a100 feet will do.
And 40 foot long slings, a small rack :every fall is a potential grounder,
There are 'stacks ' and 'chasms,' a bit like lost city only smaller.

It is easy to find all sorts of rock, from the bouldering to 85foot leads,
even some not so deep water soloing" . ..

Then there is :
The rock in the old 'church school parking lot??
Choss fests, and mixed lines on Joplinberg Mnt?

The old mine shafts that pump out cold air off creek locks road?

They are 'as good' as Kingston.

Sorry for this beta dump, but the mine shafts and full arches have not seen a rope in the last ten years.

That was when I was last around locally, now it looks like some houses back onto the cool shafts ?
If so that would be a real loss. before they were "FOUND" and put on the radar ,
they are like ivan's cave climbs. . . ?!?
Anyone know about those ??
I think they were bolted.

is the rock where the "lady June"used to live ,way up the hill on Mnt. Rd) toward the river but not the falls or Ian's house
A known thing?
If not . . . Find that small steep spot the wide is a ride if you blow the top out.

Some residents who climb are they still there ?
They might remember . . . ?

Also on the far side, going down to high falls but still on the Mnt road before the water fall on the left,
(If you are facing the wall) that freezes solid and is 50 feet of ice is also a 40 foot high rock wall right on the side of the road.

Look at the trees along the road by the lower end of the cliff , there is a rock grown into the tree at a crotch, twenty feet up.

There is So much rock in the out skirts of the Gunks ...,

Oh on ?? Rt 32 heading towards Kingston, after the Highway underpass,on the left in the woods a bit past where they took down the old pink house,
there is a 'corridor' of 40 foot limestone walls, both sides of the hundred foot long 'hallway' has dead vertical walls ready for 'Treatment!
Do not even mention Smiley road or the hills of Ellenville,& Liberty that hide Sandstone bluffs that
only Kieth and I ever touched,

why do I feel the need to spray about off the grid .... Because of the crazy over-crowding !

Oh ice caves Mnt? SAMs point? I did some climbs there and even took Richie R there. ., .

Was just up that way yesterday marveling at the possibilities off the rail trail at joppenberg, right above Rosendale.

Website says no climbing, can someone clarify? Like… why aren’t people swarming this place? Easy access, good parking, looks like fun routes from boulders to multi.
I was getting excited standing on the bridge looking at it with my partner… 

Joppenbergh Mtn is super vegetated and chossy. With a lifetime of world-class climbing 15 minutes away, I don't think there's a lot of impetus to get it opened for climbing. 

Ok, appreciate the heads up on Jberg Mtn but what about the posts above these? Appears to be climbing in that area in Rosendale, near the waterworks there by the rail trail.  I don’t like going to the Gunks, it’s just… not my bag. 

The Waterworks is great for hard bouldering. There are also some short TRs. However if you don't like the Gunks you probably won't like Waterworks - it's part of the Gunks; same rock type and features, just much smaller than the other areas (in both variety and height). It's mostly visited by locals looking for an occasional change of scenery or by hardcore boulderers looking for V-double digits. 

thanks again! love the rock type, just the vibe and people feel all weird to me. Never figured it out. Maybe one day…

I’ll look up the waterworks and scope out some out of the way stuff in those above posts, i suppose. Happy to clean stuff off if it needs some tlc