Climbing Near Chamizal, New Mexico

Climbing areas near the city of Socorro, NM. The Box Canyon Area is the most well-known and popular of the Socorro areas. On Interstate 25, about 80 miles south of Albuquerque and 190 miles north of El Paso.

Streambed is one of the main bouldering areas at the Box. It's noteworthy for its short approach, long traverse in the 5.11+ range, and fun problems with sandy landings. Great for people with just a short amount of time to spare, whether local or passing through. Most of the climbing is on the west side, a few on the east. A page with route info is found here: infohost.nmt.edu/~bob/bould… Park just past the west side of the bridge over the Box Canyon off Highway 60. Scramble into the canyon and go south, can't miss it.

A nice spring / fall crag with a wide variety of routes. Around 30 routes contain a good variety of trad and sport climbs from 5.7 to 5.13. This area is North facing so primarily shaded making it great for spring / fall and cold in the winter. May still be hot in the middle of summer. In general the routes here are short and bouldery with hard starts to easier finishes. Most of the routes are vertical to slightly overhanging. From the Box Parking lot, hike directly down the streambend. Hike almost to the road and you will see North Wall on your right. This is the backside of Red Wall. Find a small trail starting out of the streambend up the short hill to the base. Trail ends just left of the Corner Block. Approach time is about 10 minutes. Climbs from right to left. Liposuction Massacre, Rhonda Savage St. George 5.10+ (Starts behind corner block) Or Dare 5.10b Sport, 2nd Pitch of "The Truth" The Truth 5.7 Trad Direct on the Truth 5.9 Trad Project, May have been done by Timy at 5.14? Alarm Arm 5.11+ Trad Fatty 5.11b Red Licorice 5.11b Bashart 5.12c Loser 5.13a, shared finish with Bashart Maria de la Sangria 5.11+ Unknown 1 5.11 Grijavla Route 5.12c, listed as "Loser" in the RC NM Book. There is a 30 foot break in the climbs here Minas Boreas (Tower of the North) 5.13c/d Boss Hog 5.12c Rock Trooper 5.9, 1 bolt, no anchor. Black Crack 5.10+ Trad Arch of Evil 5.10+ Trad Jack be Quick (Candlestick) 5.12c Grease Mechanic 5.12+, Climbs up Thin Arete, Could use finger size cam Unknown Slab Route, 12-?? climbs up past 4 bolts to anchors shared with "Grease Mechanic" The next three routes are various linkups starting in the crack of "Totem" and finishing at the anchors of "Grease Mechanic" Box Baby 5.10b, Start in left crack, and at weakness traverse across slab to join "Grease Mechanic" at third bolt. Modern Day Contrivances 5.11+, Shared start with "Box Baby", after joining "Grease Mechanic" break left for 3rd and 4th bolt of the unknown slab route. Kind of pointless now that the full slab route is bolted. Box Frenzy 5.10a, Climb crack, then move right towards the top to join last 2? bolts of the slab route and anchors of "Grease Mechanic". Totem 5.7 Trad, climbs up the corner, no anchor Tomahawk 5.9 Trad, climbs through the small roof, no anchor. The next 5 climbs are before Z crack, however they are listed after Z crack in the Rock Climbing New Mexico guide. Unknown "10c", 5.11c Power House 5.11c Crystal Ball 5.11b Unknown 2 5.10a Unknown 3 5.10b The Z Crack 5.8 Trad