Joshua Tree climbing locations

Joshua Tree National Park is a very popular with local rock climbers (who often refer to it
as "JT"). It is a winter practice area while Yosemite Valley and other parts of the
Sierra Nevada are deeply snowbound, but later became an area of great climbing interest
in its own right. There are many thousands of funny named climbing routes, at
all levels of climber difficulty. The routes are typically very short, the rocks being
rarely more than 230 ft in height, but access is usually a short, easy walk through the
warm desert, and it's possible to do a number of interesting area climbs in a single day.
The rocks are all composed of quartz, a very rough grainy type of granite made even more
so as there is no snow or ice to polish it up.

Please contact the Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Centers to find out more details
on accessibility to the camping and climbing locations.

Joshua Tree National Park is one of the most popular rock climbing areas in the world.
More than 4,500 established routes. This map shows many of these rock climbing
locations in Joshua Tree.

For other National Park Web Samplers, please visit this directory: National Park Samplers

This Joshua Tree National Park map is made with USGS point data and 1-6 year old
digital National Park data. In some areas some features may be named wrong, or missing
due to the age of the USGS data. Viewers should consider the map as reference
only.

Source: NPS, USGS
Map Copyright CCCARTO