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Auburn SRA Climbing

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Areas in Auburn SRA

"Bare" Rock 0 / 0 / 2 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3

Bar, The 0 / 3 / 0 / 46 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 49

Cave Valley (aka Auburn Quarry) 0 / 62 / 4 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 69

Mineral Bar Boulders 0 / 0 / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 4

Old Bridge Buttress 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 1

Tall Green Bridge 0 / 0 / 0 / 13 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 13

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Elevation:	1,006 ft	307 m
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Access Issue: The State Rec Area closes at dusk - most parking areas are self-paid Details

Most of Auburn SRA is open from 7 am to sunset. Leave early enough to be off the trails before dusk. Most parking requires self registration fees in cash envelopes (or annual state park passes), and is enthusiastically enforced. Check the Auburn State Recreation Area website at parks.ca.gov/?page_id=502 for current information. Note that the park's policy is that technical roped climbing is only permitted in the Cave Valley/Quarry area - outside the fenced private quarry at the back. Unroped climbing - aka bouldering or DWS - is allowed everywhere with a safe landing.

Description

Auburn State Recreation Area holds scattered boulders and small rocky walls tucked amid a maze of rivers, canyons and dirt tracks in the Gold Country foothills.

Check the Auburn State Recreation Area website for current general information.

Getting There

Auburn SRA is between and conveniently near the city of Auburn and the town of Cool along the Golden Chain Highway, route 49. Most people visiting here drive from interstate 80, and exit in Auburn.

This page marks the location of the Quarry Trailhead parking, which is the quickest (paid) parking lot for Cave Valley, the main roped climbing area.

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Classic Climbing Routes at Auburn SRA

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

V4 6B 7 ● Handlebar right Boulder Bar > Handlebar Boulder
V5 6C PG13 11 ● Shogun Boulder Bar > Shogun Boulder
5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 225 ● M+M Sport, TR Cave Valley (ak… > Scale Wall
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a 164 ● Scooby Snacks Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Scale Wall
5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 132 ● Comfortably Dumb Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Horseshoe Canyon
5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 156 ● Booty Crack Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Scale Wall
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b 193 ● Uncomfortably Dumb Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Horseshoe Canyon
5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 211 ● Scale Wall Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Scale Wall
5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 98 ● Hunger Pains Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Wreckage Wall
5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 119 ● Vacavillain Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Horseshoe Canyon
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a 51 ● Release the Lions Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Twin Towers
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a 14 ● Das Rads Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Twin Towers
5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a 63 ● Human Oddity Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Horseshoe Canyon
5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b 13 ● Invisible Flying Gargoyles Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Wreckage Wall
5.13a 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E6 6c 41 ● Bat Karma Sport Cave Valley (ak… > Horsepoo Canyon