Red River Gorge Climbing

A World-Famous Sport Climbing Destination

You’ve hit the jackpot! With more than 4,000 routes on its sandstone cliffs, the Red is world-renowned as one of the best sport climbing crags anywhere. Climbers from every country make the pilgrimage to this sandstone Mecca to pay homage to some of the safest, longest, pumpiest, and most fun climbing areas ever developed. There are so many areas and routes, you could spend your whole life climbing at the Red and not even scratch the surface of this amazing area. Read below for many of the “in” places where all the climbers hang out, as well as information on guides, routes, eats, and treats of this very special rock climbing heaven.

Red River Gorge Rock Climbing Guide Books

The Red River Gorge is a massive climbing area with many guidebooks. Check out our shop for some of our favorites.

Resources for Red River Gorge Rock Climbing

Red River Gorge Climbers' Coalition

The RRGCC values the world class rock climbing opportunities found in and around the Red River Gorge. As a national treasure, the RRG deserves our best efforts to preserve resources for all people to enjoy, experience, and appreciate. They value rock climbing and other forms of human-powered recreation as being good for both body and spirit as well as individuals and local communities.

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RedRiverClimbing.com

This site provides information on climbing in the Red River Gorge, and an online guidebook with community grade consensus, discussions on quality, and general (sometimes feisty) community conversation. It contains directions to climbing areas, information on the number of routes in each area, and information about the route’s difficulty.

Browse the online guidebook for free, register your sends and accomplishments, or report safety concerns or other issues.

Also, download their mobile app for free!

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Mountain Project’s Classic Climbs for RRG

With over 4,000 routes to choose from in the region, it can be difficult to narrow down the sends you want to conquer. This is Mountain Project’s determination of the most popular, highly-rated routes. Includes locations, directions, difficulty, and extensive user reviews and ratings.

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Muir Valley

The Muir Valley Organization (formerly known as the Friends of Muir Valley or FOMV) is a volunteer-based organization that owns, operates, and maintains Muir Valley. The Muir Valley Organization was originally formed in 2004 to provide volunteer labor and raise funds to help maintain Muir Valley and keep it open to the public. The Muir Valley Organization is one of the top Access Fund chartered Local Climbing Organizations.

Muir Valley is the name given to a tract of land purchased by Rick and Liz Weber in 2004 which they developed, operated, and maintained as Muir Valley Nature Preserve LLC through 2015. The Webers made access to Muir Valley free to the public for the purpose of rock climbing, hiking, and enjoying nature. It was their vision from the outset to make Muir Valley available to the public in perpetuity by gifting it to a non-profit organization. What amazing people!

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