Rock Springs Rock Climbing
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Elevation: | 6,058 ft | 1,846 m |
GPS: |
37.45052, -111.95891 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
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Page Views: | 2,038 total · 26/month | |
Shared By: | Roy Suggett on May 14, 2018 | |
Admins: | Perin Blanchard, GRK, David Crane |
Description
A remote but beautiful area that still has large Yellow Pines growing in what is now Pinyon/Juniper forest. Their roots must have tapped a water source long ago to keep them going. Their offspring have no such chance in what is now an arid landscape. The colors here are vivid. Yellow and red sandstone set off by the dark green of the big pines and the blue of the sky. The rock is soft. It is the aesthetics here that are hard core.
Getting There
On Cottonwood Road, pass the entrance of Kodachrome Basin State Park heading east .2 mi.s. Take your first right on Rock Springs Bench Road (BLM 410). Travel south (1.5 mi.s) to the large coral where the road splits. Stay left on what is now noted as "Co. Rd." This runs generally south and moves in and out of a sometimes wet drainage before rising up on a bench. Follow this double track to a fence line and gate (total of 3 mi.s) where you break right onto a less traveled double track. Sorry, no signage out here. Travel just a short distance (.2 mi.s) where you can see a canyon forming and an area to turn around in and park prior to the road heading up and west. There is a defined trail that leads into a sage-choked drainage. Follow this down stream until you see the tower up on the left. Leave the drainage and do your best to avoid the crytobiotic soils in abundance here as you head for the towers west face.
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