Tennessee Climbing
Areas in Tennessee
Backbone Rock
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Bays Mountain
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Bee Rock
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Bells Bend
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Big Soddy Gorge
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Big South Fork
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95
Black Mountain
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44
Blue Hole Falls
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24
Boulders on Old Wauhatchie Pike, The
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Buffalo Rock on French Broad River
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Buzzard Point
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Castle Rock
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Center Hill Lake
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Cherokee Bluff (CLOSED TO CLIMBING)
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Clarksville Greenway
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Collegedale Park
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14
Cumberland Boulders
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Dayton Pocket/Laurel Falls Bouldering
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80
Deep Creek
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117
Denny Cove
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115
Devil's Race Track
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Dogwood
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36
Fall Creek Falls State
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Foster Falls
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147 /
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162
GoForth Creek Boulders
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Greenway Boulders
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19
Ijams Crag
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35
King's Bluff
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159 /
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Lake Nickajack Deep Water Soloing
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10
Laurel Falls
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10
Leda
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39 /
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Leda Shade Wall
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Long Hunter State Park
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Look Rock
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Lookout Mountain
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Lower Leda
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Lower Station Camp Rail Wall
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Middle Creek
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Mizell Bluffs on Tellico Lake
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3
Monterey Crag
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16
Nolichucky riverside
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Norris Lake
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North Chick Gorge, Soddy TN
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Obed & Clear Creek
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Panther Creek State Park
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Percy Priest DWS
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Phil Rock
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Prentice Cooper
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River Wall
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Short Mountain
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Starr Mountain
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Stillhouse hollow falls -ice climbing
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Stone Door @ Savage Gulf State Park.
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Stone Fort
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Suck Creek Canyon
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3 /
1 /
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Sucka Cave
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Sunset Park
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Taylor Creek Gourge
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Tennessee River Deep Water Soloing
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Tennessee Wall, The
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Toxic Wall
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Tweetsie Trail - Railroad Cuts
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Watt’s Bar
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Woodcock Cove
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Elevation: | 1,040 ft |
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Description
There's probably no place in the southeast that has such a high concentration of great climbing destinations as has Tennessee. Within an hour's drive of Chattanooga alone are eight crags with enough routes to last you a lifetime. And if you ever get tired of Chattanooga, there's plenty of other climbing areas to keep you busy, from Nashville to the west to Knoxville in the east.
Much of the climbing in Tennessee is on the Cumberland Plateau, a 300-mile ridge that stretches into Alabama and Kentucky. The rock is hard, high-quality sandstone, and the terrain can include long crack climbs and overhanging jugfests. The variety is incredible.
Tennessee boasts climbing year-round. In the dead of winter, you'll see climbers on the rock in their t-shirts at such south-facing crags as Tennessee Wall. When summer's at its hottest, Sunset Park is a great destination: its west-facing cliff stays shady until well into the afternoon.
There's plenty to do no matter what your climbing style. For trad leaders, T-Wall and Sunset are the top choices; other trad destinations include Suck Creek Canyon and Prentice Cooper. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Foster Falls and Obed. And there's a little of both at Leda. For the truly adventurous who want to carve out their own routes, there's Big South Fork, a real climbing frontier.
Much of the climbing in Tennessee is on the Cumberland Plateau, a 300-mile ridge that stretches into Alabama and Kentucky. The rock is hard, high-quality sandstone, and the terrain can include long crack climbs and overhanging jugfests. The variety is incredible.
Tennessee boasts climbing year-round. In the dead of winter, you'll see climbers on the rock in their t-shirts at such south-facing crags as Tennessee Wall. When summer's at its hottest, Sunset Park is a great destination: its west-facing cliff stays shady until well into the afternoon.
There's plenty to do no matter what your climbing style. For trad leaders, T-Wall and Sunset are the top choices; other trad destinations include Suck Creek Canyon and Prentice Cooper. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Foster Falls and Obed. And there's a little of both at Leda. For the truly adventurous who want to carve out their own routes, there's Big South Fork, a real climbing frontier.
Classic Climbing Routes at Tennessee
Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.
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