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Wall Street: Moab's Most Popular Climbing Area

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Finding Wall Street, Area Guidebooks, and Guide Services
A group from Colorado top-ropes moderate routes at the School Room sector at Wall Street.

Need a Rock Climbing Utah guidebook? A guide to take you up some climbs? Or a new rack of gear? You can find them all in Moab.

Photograph © Stewart M. Green

Finding Wall Street

Wall Street is a ten-minute drive from Moab. Drive north from Moab on U.S. Highway 191. Cross the Colorado River Bridge and drive 1.3 miles and turn left on Potash Road/UT 279. Drive south on Potash Road for two miles and enter the Colorado River Canyon. Jaycee Campground, a popular climber's campsite, is at 3.75 miles. Wall Street's cliffs begin at 4.4 miles and end before a panel of Anasazi petroglyphs at 5.4 miles. Lots of parking areas are found below the various cliff sectors.

Guidebooks

The best and most complete guidebook for Wall Street is Best Climbs Moab by Stewart Green, which includes almost all of Wall Street's routes as well as many other great climbs in the Moab area. Another book with lots of Wall Street routes is Rock Climbing Utah, also by Stewart Green. It offers a generous selection of climbing routes with route descriptions and photo topos.

Guide Services and Gear

If you want to hire a guide to climb with your group or yourself at Wall Street or at the other fabulous Moab climbing venues like Owl Rock in Arches National Park, I recommend Moab Desert Adventures as Moab's best climbing guide service. I've known owner Dave Madera for a lot of years and he's not only a good safe climber, but he also has a staff of strong knowledgeable guides. Besides rock climbing, Moab Desert Adventures also offers canyoneering trips, rappelling, and climbing camps, and has a gear shop in their location at 415 North Main in Moab.

Moab has a couple good outdoor shops that specialize in climbing gear. If you need some extra cams, a new pair of rock shoes, or a block of chalk then check out Pagan Mountaineering at 59 South Main Street and Gearheads Outdoor Store at 471 South Main Street.

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