Recommended
Climbing sites worth reading
The official climbing sources we check ourselves, kept short on purpose. A person picks every entry and writes it up.
Official sources
Agencies, regulators and the organizations that publish the rules and the data. We use these ourselves. None of them asked to be listed and none of them link back to us.
Access Fund
accessfund.org
The organization that buys threatened crags, negotiates access with landowners and fights closures. Its regional updates are the fastest way to learn that a crag has closed, and usually why.
American Alpine Club Publications
publications.americanalpineclub.org
Accidents in North American Climbing, going back decades and free to read online. Every report is somebody describing exactly how a day went wrong, which makes it the most useful safety reading in the sport.
National Park Service Climbing
nps.gov
Climbing regulations, permits, fixed anchor policy and seasonal raptor closures across the national parks. The closures are the part worth rechecking every season, because they move with the nesting birds.
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We read everything that comes in. Independent sites about climbing only, and a person writes the description, so there is no need to send us one.
Add your siteWe link to these sites because we think they are useful. None of them paid for a place here, and nobody can buy one. If a site stops being worth reading, it comes off this page.
