California Rock Climbing

Joshua Tree National Park in southern California is simply one of the best climbing areas in the United States. J-Tree offers over 8,000 climbing routes and boulder problems, including bolted sport routes and steep jam cracks on granite cliffs, outcrops, pinnacles, and rock piles in the high desert east of Los Angeles.

Read a guide book review of "Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park" by Bob Gaines, a select rock climbing guide to over 250 of the best routes at Joshua Tree published by FalconGuides. This excellent climbing guide leads you to lots of great crack climbs and bolted sport routes on J-Tree's granite outcrops, domes, and cliffs.

Lizard's Hangout, lying on the western side of Joshua Tree National Park, is an easily accessible cliff that is popular with rock climbers. Learn all about top-rope climbing at Lizard's Hangout, one of Joshua Tree's best roadside cliffs, and use route descriptions and photo topos to go climbing.

Tuolumne Meadows in California's Yosemite National Park is simply one of the best summer rock climbing areas in the United States with its sky-scraping granite domes and glacier-etched faces, easy access, quiet camping in lodgepole pine forests, and superb knob, crack, and slab climbing routes.

Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park is easy to reach from San Francisco and the Bay area; offers lots of great amenities including camping, lodging, and dining; and is one of the best summer rock climbing areas in the United States. Here’s all the information you need to plan your Tuolumne climbing escape now.

Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park offers lots of climbing routes from short sport climbs to long routes that take a whole day. Some of the domes are easily accessed from the road while others are remote and offer a wilderness climbing experience. Check out this list of Tuolumne's best routes for your next Yosemite climbing trip.

If you're going to Tuolumne, you're going to need Don Reid's comprehensive guidebook to find all the best routes.

A comprehensive guide to climbing at Joshua Tree National Park by Todd Gordon, master climber and mayor of J-Tree.

You want to know what's going on right now in Yosemite Valley? Check out live web cams of El Capitan, Half Dome, and Ahwahnee Meadow.

You'll find lots of valuable info here to climb Mount Shasta in northern California including climbing routes, rock climbing, a virtual tour, photos, and current weather conditions.

Mount Shasta towers majestically above northern California. This massive stratovolcano, one of California's Fourteeners, has a long colorful history and is a popular mountain for climbers. Find out lots of interesting facts and Mount Shasta's geology, volcanism, history, ascents, and how to climb it.