Climbing Near Oak Grove, Kentucky

The Clarksville Greenway is a City Park owned and operated by Clarksville Parks and Recreation. Since it's a city park, there's not much to complain about in regards to access. Generally speaking, the only people you'll find are runners, bikers, and walkers, so please be courteous and keep gear out of their way and not on the paved trail. If you can endure the heat and stickiness of the Tennessee summer, then bouldering here is available year-round, as the trails are shaded from the sun by a vast canopy of trees.The Greenway hosts various boulders and walls alongside and around its paved hiking trails. As is characteristic of other Clarksville stone, most of the rock found here is limestone, however, beware of the flaky shale boulders that are also in the area. As bouldering is new to the Greenway, many of the walls, boulders, and problems are chossy, dirty, overgrown with vines and plants, or a healthy mix of all three. Because of this, both crash pads and spotters are highly recommended. Nonetheless, the area still has potential, so don't allow yourself to become discouraged by a little mank. Clarksville Greenway Parking Lot address: 1101 Pollard Rd, Clarksville, TN 37042Directions From I-24:Take exit 4 onto Wilma Rudolph and towards the downtown area. After a few miles, make a right on Kraft Street and follow it down to the intersection at the river. From there, take a right onto Providence Blvd., follow it a little ways and take a right on Peachers Mill. Not far after turning on Peachers Mill will be another right turn onto Pollard Road, which dead ends at the parking lot of the Clarksville Greenway.Directions from Warfield Boulevard / 101st Airborne Div. Parkway (traveling north or south):Follow Warfield/101st (374) until you come across the light at Peachers Mill. Turn onto the southerly portion of Peachers Mill like you're headed to Heritage Sports Park (large soccer fields, pavilion, and skate park visible from the road) and head down until you see Pollard Road on your left. Take a left on Pollard and follow it until it dead-ends into the parking lot.Upon arrival, follow either trail to designated boulders/walls within the sub-areas. The path is paved and makes for easy walking or biking to your boulder(s) of interest. Happy bouldering!

The K.W. Wall is named after hometown climber and routesetter Kurtis Watts (now lives in Chatt), who began climbing and testing some of its first problems and sequences around the 2017-2018 timeframe.This wall has crimps, slopers, monos, underclings, and just about every other classic limestone feature in between. The slight lip at the bottom of the wall makes for nice sit-starts, after which it transitions into face climbing. Another interesting feature on this wall is the scar from an old dynamite explosion, which has created an incut vertical hold.As for now, the wall is still pretty dirty (especially the bottom below the lip), and much of it is covered by vines and other plants. The top of the wall is easily accessible from its left side, making topouts feasible once it gets cleaned up a bit. This left-side access point should also make it easier for the wall to be cleaned. From the "Zone B" sign at the Pollard Road Trailhead, walk roughly .25 miles and the K.W. Wall will be on your righthand side. The wall doesn't require any scrambling or bushwhacking to reach as it's a couple feet off the trail. The rock has a dynamite blast scar and the remnants of some old spray paint. It's hard to miss because of how solid the rock looks compared to the other boulders surrounding it.In order to reach it, you must first pass a large clearing cut for utility poles and then a swinging bench on the lefthand side. The map location below is an approximation, so don't blindly trust it.

This boulder is a tri level V0. It sits beautifully in the sun around dusk and dawn! Park at the pollard road trail head and start walking in the trail. You will see Redemption Rock immediately to your left.