Best guidebook for climbing Wasatch Range

I'll be visiting SLC in the next few weeks and I'm looking to buy a guidebook for the Wasatch Range. I'm not very familiar with the climbing around there but I would like the book to include Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons at least. Maybe even American Fork Canyon. Any suggestions?

The "best" guidebook is from 1998. A lot of development has happened since then.
Rock Climbing the Wasatch Range
rei.com/product/703434/falc…
Covers LCC, BCC, and a few obscure crags.

The Calderone guidebook to LCC is available in paper or digital copy via Rakkup. Lots of pictures but not much in the line of route descriptions.

AF Canyon:
amazon.com/Climbers-America…

The "visitor's" guide to Maple:
amazon.com/Maple-Canyon-Roc…
vs. the vastly more comprehensive "local's" guide to Maple:
campsaver.com/maple-canyon?…

If you find yourself in Ogden:
rei.com/product/746001/ogde…

Best to supplement all guidebooks with the MP app.

Jennyclimbsrock wrote:I'll be visiting SLC in the next few weeks and I'm looking to buy a guidebook for the Wasatch Range. I'm not very familiar with the climbing around there but I would like the book to include Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons at least. Maybe even American Fork Canyon. Any suggestions?

The Ruckman guide is the guide to get. Yeah it is a bit dated but it covers LCC and BCC. There is a version for AF as well, also a Ruckman guide. These will get you to where you need to be. Might do a book search to find a used copy and save a bit of coin. The local shops IME, BD,and REI will have new copies.

Be aware that weather is a crap shot. Today was great but snow is predicted later in the week.

Thanks for the suggestions! Any recommendations of winter crags? It sounds like a lot of crags in LCC are in the sun?

A good portion of LCC (Crescent Crack area and Gate Buttress) will be in the sun. You can climb there through the winter, though sometimes snow can accumulate at the base (unlikely this early in the season). Wear a helmet for melting snow/ice shortly after a storm. The actual rock tends to try pretty quick.