Areas in Tennessee
Backbone Rock
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Bays Mountain
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Bee Rock
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Bells Bend
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Big Soddy Gorge
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Big South Fork
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Black Mountain
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44
Blue Hole Falls
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Boulders on Old Wauhatchie Pike, The
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Buffalo Rock on French Broad River
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Buzzard Point
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Castle Rock
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48 /
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Center Hill Lake
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Cherokee Bluff (CLOSED TO CLIMBING)
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Clarksville Greenway
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5
Collegedale Park
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15
Cumberland Boulders
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44 /
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44
Cumberland Heights Wall
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3 /
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3
Dayton Pocket/Laurel Falls Bouldering
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81 /
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81
Deep Creek
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148 /
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150
Denny Cove
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111 /
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121
Devil's Race Track
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17 /
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25
Dogwood
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30 /
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58
Fall Creek Falls State
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Foster Falls
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155 /
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173
GoForth Creek Boulders
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1
Graysville - Dinner Branch
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24 /
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24
Greenway Boulders
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23
Ijams Crag
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38 /
4 /
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38
Keller Bend Bluff
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9 /
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10
King's Bluff
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179
Lake Nickajack Deep Water Soloing
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9 /
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13
Laurel Falls
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9 /
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10
Leda
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52
Leda Shade Wall
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3 /
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12
Long Hunter State Park
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Look Rock
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9
Lookout Mountain
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4
Lower Leda
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16 /
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21
Lower Station Camp Rail Wall
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1
Middle Creek
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Mizell Bluffs on Tellico Lake
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Monterey Crag
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Narrows of the Harpeth
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New Era Bluff
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Nolichucky riverside
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Norris Lake
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North Chick Gorge, Soddy TN
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Obed & Clear Creek
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Panther Creek State Park
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Percy Priest DWS
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Phil Rock
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Prentice Cooper
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1 /
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26
River Wall
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Short Mountain
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Starr Mountain
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Stillhouse hollow falls -ice climbing
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Stone Door @ Savage Gulf State Park.
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Stone Fort
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Suck Creek Canyon
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3 /
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Sucka Cave
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Sunset Park
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6 /
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152
Taylor Creek Gourge
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Tennessee River Deep Water Soloing
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Tennessee Wall, The
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33 /
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270
Toxic Wall
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14 /
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15
Tweetsie Trail - Railroad Cuts
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4
Walden's Ridge Park
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69
Watt’s Bar
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3
White House Cliffs
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Woodcock Cove
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Description
There's probably no place in the southeast that has such a high concentration of great climbing destinations as has Tennessee. Within an hour's drive of Chattanooga alone are eight crags with enough routes to last you a lifetime. And if you ever get tired of Chattanooga, there's plenty of other climbing areas to keep you busy, from Nashville to the west to Knoxville in the east.
Much of the climbing in Tennessee is on the Cumberland Plateau, a 300-mile ridge that stretches into Alabama and Kentucky. The rock is hard, high-quality sandstone, and the terrain can include long crack climbs and overhanging jugfests. The variety is incredible.
Tennessee boasts climbing year-round. In the dead of winter, you'll see climbers on the rock in their t-shirts at such south-facing crags as Tennessee Wall. When summer's at its hottest, Sunset Park is a great destination: its west-facing cliff stays shady until well into the afternoon.
There's plenty to do no matter what your climbing style. For trad leaders, T-Wall and Sunset are the top choices; other trad destinations include Suck Creek Canyon and Prentice Cooper. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Foster Falls and Obed. And there's a little of both at Leda. For the truly adventurous who want to carve out their own routes, there's Big South Fork, a real climbing frontier.
Much of the climbing in Tennessee is on the Cumberland Plateau, a 300-mile ridge that stretches into Alabama and Kentucky. The rock is hard, high-quality sandstone, and the terrain can include long crack climbs and overhanging jugfests. The variety is incredible.
Tennessee boasts climbing year-round. In the dead of winter, you'll see climbers on the rock in their t-shirts at such south-facing crags as Tennessee Wall. When summer's at its hottest, Sunset Park is a great destination: its west-facing cliff stays shady until well into the afternoon.
There's plenty to do no matter what your climbing style. For trad leaders, T-Wall and Sunset are the top choices; other trad destinations include Suck Creek Canyon and Prentice Cooper. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Foster Falls and Obed. And there's a little of both at Leda. For the truly adventurous who want to carve out their own routes, there's Big South Fork, a real climbing frontier.
Guidebook
For the authoritative guidebook to Tennessee climbing, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the Dixie Cragger's Atlas by Chris Watford. If you plan to spend much time in the state, the DCA should be part of your climbing gear.
Updated guidebooks such as the Chatt Steel and Chattrad cover more recently developed areas such as Deep Creek and Denny Cove among others, in the greater Chattanooga area.
Classic Climbing Routes at Tennessee
Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.
Route Name | Location | Star Rating | Difficulty | Date |
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● Super Mario | Stone Fort > Super Mario/ Cinderel… |
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V4 6B Boulder | |
● Art of the Vogi | Stone Fort > Front Area |
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V4 6B Boulder | |
● Genghis Khan | Stone Fort > Front Area |
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V5 6C Boulder | |
● Sternum | Stone Fort > Central Area |
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V5 6C Boulder | |
● The Wave | Stone Fort > Front Area |
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V6 7A Boulder | |
● Shotgun | Stone Fort > Space Odyssey/ Shotgu… |
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V6 7A Boulder | |
● Tennessee Thong | Stone Fort > Front Area |
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V7 7A+ Boulder | |
● Passages | Tennessee Wall > T-Wall East |
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5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c Trad | |
● Golden Locks | Tennessee Wall > T-Wall East |
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5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a C1 Trad, Aid | |
● In Pursuit of Excellence | Tennessee Wall > T-Wall East |
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5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a Trad | |
● Cake Walk | Tennessee Wall > T-Wall East |
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5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a Trad | |
● Finger Lockin' Good | Tennessee Wall > T-Wall East |
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5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b Trad | |
● Spawn | Obed & Clear Creek > S Clear Creek > Image Wall |
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5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b Sport | |
● Heresy | Obed & Clear Creek > Lilly Bluff |
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5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a Sport | |
● Solstice | Obed & Clear Creek > S Clear Creek > Solstice Cave |
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5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a Sport |
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