Acadia National Park, on the coast of Maine, offers something few climbing areas in the United States can: routes that

City of Rocks National Reserve, in the far south of Idaho near the Utah line, is a valley full of

Bishop, a small town in California’s Owens Valley, has become one of the best known bouldering destinations in the world.

Smith Rock State Park sits in central Oregon, near Redmond, where the Crooked River has cut a deep canyon through

Climbers on the East Coast call it “the New”. The cliffs of the lower New River Gorge in West Virginia

Devils Tower rises out of the rolling hills of north-east Wyoming like a giant tree stump made of stone. Its

Cape Hatteras National Seashore, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, is one of the few places on the US East Coast

Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site, outside El Paso, is a name bouldering climbers say with some reverence. The

Joshua Tree National Park is one of the busiest climbing areas in the United States, and the numbers explain why.