Climbing around great falls?

My wife has a job interview in great falls, and before we start seriously considering moving there, is there much climbing reasonably close by?

It doesn’t seem like much is posted here, but I also saw that it seems to be a locals only attitude, to keep from blowing it up.

thanks

try blackleaf.

I spent a summer in Great Falls, if there is any climbing within three hours that isn’t bolted limestone I never found it. But there are some really pretty crags, no superlative climbing, but beautiful settings and absolutely zero people. The closest stuff is an hour and a half from town, most of it further. A number of small crags are described in Ron Brunckhorst’s The Big Empty. That said, Great Falls has to be one of the worst towns in the west for varied, quality rock climbing, but there’s enough to have fun for a year or so.

Great Falls is not a place you want to be, for anything, climbing included

There's sport and trad on bullet-hard rock about an hour's drive near Neihart. It isn't bolted limestone. Right now I forget the name and the exact rock type, but the place is on MP. Not saying it's worth moving to Great Falls for, but it's there.

Just remembered: it's called Memorial Falls. Some type of quartzite or hard sandstone that's really rare.

Noah G wrote:

Great Falls is not a place you want to be, for anything, climbing included

Why do you say that?

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Great falls is not a place you move for the vibrant culture, as in, it has the dining diversity of a town a quarter it’s size or whatever. If you don’t care about that shit, and I didn’t, then it’s a pretty quiet place with mostly quiet people (White, Christian, conservative, old, but not crazies like in rural Idaho or eastern Washington) and then the military folk on the base, who I never met much of, but they’re there. It is a beautiful region, though, the front range, the big and little belt mountains, all of it. People dump on it because it only has three fucking craft breweries or something instead of ten thousand and thus they think there is no culture. But if you want a quiet place with nice enough people, great falls is good, and Bozeman climbing is accessible on the weekends. 

Great Falls is lacking in culture compared to Helena, Bozeman, Butte, and Missoula. It's also far enough away from big mountains, though that might be relative (I live 15 minutes from Glacier, GF is an hour or two). If you are from places without close access to mountains, the commute might not be a problem to get to skiing and climbing, but there's a bunch of places in Montana that I'd rather live in than Great Falls. The climbing isn't as bad as I thought it was though, seems like there's some stuff SE of it that looks cool, but I've never been there. 

PSA:  Don’t move there unless your a Mennonite.  I’ve done some work in the little belts, there is some granite mixed in with superfund mine sites.