Crags
Joshua Tree
United States guidebook sector.
Sector guide
Central Joshua Tree / Sheep Pass Area
Browse 422 climbs in this Joshua Tree sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
climbs
422
Every climb in this sector is listed below.
Grade spread
A quick feel for the sector
Every climb is listed below, easiest first.
Grade system shown: French
418 climbs · 3 to 8b · most at 5a–5c
- 3a–3c 2
- 4a–4c 46
- 5a–5c 177
- 6a–6c+ 165
- 7a–7c+ 27
- 8a–8c+ 1
Full breakdown (21 grades)
3
1
3+
1
4a
14
4b
17
4c
15
5a
43
5b
65
5c
69
6a
36
6a+
41
6b
23
6b+
19
6c
32
6c+
14
7a
8
7a+
10
7b
3
7b+
4
7c
1
7c+
1
8b
1
Grade system shown: V-scale
3 climbs · VB to V1
- VB 1
- V0 1
- V1 1
Route list
Every climb in Central Joshua Tree / Sheep Pass Area
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circus | 3 | – | 0 |
| The Grench | 3+ | – | 0 |
| Dutch Doll Gutter | 4a | – | 0 |
| False Lieback | 4a | – | 0 |
| Heffalump | 4a | – | 0 |
| Holds to Hollywood | 4a | – | 0 |
| Nutcracker | 4a | – | 0 |
| Practice Range | 4a | – | 0 |
| Raker Mobile | 4a | – | 0 |
| Rawl | 4a | – | 0 |
| Sambo | 4a | – | 0 |
| Sepulcher Explorers | 4a | – | 0 |
| Superman Can | 4a | – | 0 |
| The Downclimb | 4a | – | 0 |
| The Mummy's Curse | 4a | – | 0 |
| The Sound of Grains Snapping | 4a | – | 0 |
| Barely Crankin' | 4b | – | 0 |
| Barkhorn | 4b | – | 0 |
| Beezy | 4b | – | 0 |
| Caribou Lou | 4b | – | 0 |
| Don't Tread on Me | 4b | – | 0 |
| Dust Bin Hoffman | 4b | – | 0 |
| Flakes of Doom | 4b | – | 0 |
| Hartman | 4b | – | 0 |
| Hey McLeod, Get Off of My Ewe | 4b | – | 0 |
| Hueco Wall | 4b | – | 0 |
| Icy, But Not Too Dicey | 4b | – | 0 |
| Indian Creek Crack | 4b | – | 0 |
| Lord Jim | 4b | – | 0 |
| Mr. Rogers | 4b | – | 0 |
| Practice Crack #2 | 4b | – | 0 |
| Practice Crack #3 | 4b | – | 0 |
| Wacko Wall | 4b | – | 0 |
| Colon Blow | 4c | – | 0 |
| Disney World | 4c | – | 0 |
| Don't Bump The Glump | 4c | – | 0 |
| Doomed | 4c | – | 0 |
| Gram Theft Parsons | 4c | – | 0 |
| How About A Date, Baby? | 4c | – | 0 |
| Imma Playa | 4c | – | 0 |
| Jaws | 4c | – | 0 |
| Jessica's Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Little John | 4c | – | 0 |
| Rejuvenation | 4c | – | 0 |
| Right On | 4c | – | 0 |
| SW Corner | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Watercloset | 4c | – | 0 |
| Tiny Dancer | 4c | – | 0 |
| Adult Gerbils $1.59 | 5a | – | 0 |
| Aztec Twostep | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bong Along | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bottom of the Barrel | 5a | – | 0 |
| Carola's Hip | 5a | – | 0 |
| Chesire For President | 5a | – | 0 |
| Chesire For President | 5a | – | 0 |
| Cosmic Crack of Some Intrigue | 5a | – | 0 |
| Eileen | 5a | – | 0 |
| Exalted Easterners | 5a | – | 0 |
| Fender Bender | 5a | – | 0 |
| Flash Gordon | 5a | – | 0 |
| Grain Block | 5a | – | 0 |
| Griswolds, The (aka Hotseat) | 5a | – | 0 |
| Hellgramite | 5a | – | 0 |
| Hellhound | 5a | – | 0 |
| Hemroidic Terror | 5a | – | 0 |
| Lazy Day | 5a | – | 0 |
| Lickety Splits | 5a | – | 0 |
| Little Bunny Fu-Fu | 5a | – | 0 |
| Music to My Smears | 5a | – | 0 |
| New Year's Quickie | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pick Up Litter | 5a | – | 0 |
| Presto in C Sharp | 5a | – | 0 |
| R&R Revamped | 5a | – | 0 |
| Ramble On | 5a | – | 0 |
| Rings Around Uranus | 5a | – | 0 |
| Robin Hood | 5a | – | 0 |
| Satchmo | 5a | – | 0 |
| Search for Klingons | 5a | – | 0 |
| Serf's Up variation | 5a | – | 0 |
| Sickology 101 | 5a | – | 0 |
| SSDDC | 5a | – | 0 |
| Sunnyside Campground | 5a | – | 0 |
| Tequila 'til Sunday | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Slickery | 5a | – | 0 |
| Tom Bombadil | 5a | – | 0 |
| Tribal Line | 5a | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 5a | – | 0 |
| Unwed Mudders | 5a | – | 0 |
| Up Chuck | 5a | – | 0 |
| Vagina Dialogues | 5a | – | 0 |
| Wisest Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| 24 Carrot | 5b | – | 0 |
| Anniversary Special | 5b | – | 0 |
| Arturo's Special | 5b | – | 0 |
| Attention Target Shoppers | 5b | – | 0 |
| Auld Lang Syne | 5b | – | 0 |
| Bearded Oyster | 5b | – | 0 |
| Big Brother | 5b | – | 0 |
| Borat | 5b | – | 0 |
| Buckets to Burbank | 5b | – | 0 |
| Candy Grabber | 5b | – | 0 |
| Cat Burglar | 5b | – | 0 |
| Catch A Falling Star | 5b | – | 0 |
| Charlton Heston is My President | 5b | – | 0 |
| Chocolate Chips (aka Omaha Beach) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Cryptic | 5b | – | 0 |
| Darva | 5b | – | 0 |
| Do Rein Me | 5b | – | 0 |
| Eileen Left | 5b | – | 0 |
| Freudian Slip | 5b | – | 0 |
| Heartbreak Ridge | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hollow Point | 5b | – | 0 |
| Into The Black | 5b | – | 0 |
| Jo Mama | 5b | – | 0 |
| Keith's Cruise | 5b | – | 0 |
| Labor Day | 5b | – | 0 |
| Large Marge | 5b | – | 0 |
| Magic Kingdome | 5b | – | 0 |
| Medicinal Marijuana | 5b | – | 0 |
| More Hustle Than Muscle | 5b | – | 0 |
| Mummy Dearest | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nerd's Rump | 5b | – | 0 |
| No-Name Crack | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nobody Walks In LA | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nolan Ryan | 5b | – | 0 |
| Nurn's Romp | 5b | – | 0 |
| Orange Flake | 5b | – | 0 |
| Pearls Before Swine | 5b | – | 0 |
| Peter Cottontail | 5b | – | 0 |
| Planet X | 5b | – | 0 |
| Que? | 5b | – | 0 |
| Quivering Lips | 5b | – | 0 |
| Rangers' Revenge | 5b | – | 0 |
| Ren | 5b | – | 0 |
| Restoration & Repair (R&R) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Resurrection | 5b | – | 0 |
| Robocop | 5b | – | 0 |
| Saddle Sores (aka Do Rein Me) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Sanctify Yourself | 5b | – | 0 |
| Serf City | 5b | – | 0 |
| Small World | 5b | – | 0 |
| Soma | 5b | – | 0 |
| Spirit Of The Dead | 5b | – | 0 |
| Take Five | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Allen Steck Memorial Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Morning After | 5b | – | 0 |
| Traditional Crack | 5b | – | 0 |
| Trouble Chute | 5b | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 5b | – | 0 |
| Up and Right, Love | 5b | – | 0 |
| Walk on the Wild Side | 5b | – | 0 |
| Weasels on Drugs Climbed up my Bunghole (aka Richard Gere Crack) | 5b | – | 0 |
| What | 5b | – | 0 |
| Your Tomb or Mine? | 5b | – | 0 |
| Zardoz | 5b | – | 0 |
| Zucchini Crack | 5b | – | 0 |
| Another Quaalude For Elvis | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bin Laden's Cave | 5c | – | 0 |
| Body Stem | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bush Eviction | 5c | – | 0 |
| Casual | 5c | – | 0 |
| Circus, Circus | 5c | – | 0 |
| Cling Peaches | 5c | – | 0 |
| Doomsday | 5c | – | 0 |
| Eat Berthas Muscles | 5c | – | 0 |
| Enter at Your Own Risk | 5c | – | 0 |
| False Prophet | 5c | – | 0 |
| Fit For a King | 5c | – | 0 |
| Freeze Frame | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gaucho Marx | 5c | – | 0 |
| Glumpies | 5c | – | 0 |
| Headstone Crack Left | 5c | – | 0 |
| Headstone Crack Right | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hellcat | 5c | – | 0 |
| House Of The Homeless | 5c | – | 0 |
| I Blew My Hole | 5c | – | 0 |
| It | 5c | – | 0 |
| Key to the Kingdom | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lay Back and Enjoy It (aka A Dog In The Ass) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Ledges to Lawndale | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lenore Goldberg | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lickety Dogs | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lil Squirt | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lust We Forget | 5c | – | 0 |
| Maid Marion | 5c | – | 0 |
| Mr. Bunny Goes Rollerskating | 5c | – | 0 |
| My Senior Project | 5c | – | 0 |
| Never Shake a Baby | 5c | – | 0 |
| No-Doz | 5c | – | 0 |
| Nuts and Bolts | 5c | – | 0 |
| One Man's Junk Is Another Man's Treasure | 5c | – | 0 |
| Organize A Paper Drive | 5c | – | 0 |
| Paco | 5c | – | 0 |
| Perhaps | 5c | – | 0 |
| Planet Y | 5c | – | 0 |
| Poodlephile | 5c | – | 0 |
| Practice Crack #1 | 5c | – | 0 |
| Practice Crack #4 | 5c | – | 0 |
| Rust in Peace | 5c | – | 0 |
| Santa Cruz | 5c | – | 0 |
| Saturn Sheets | 5c | – | 0 |
| Shaggy Dog (aka Route 1056) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Shit Happens | 5c | – | 0 |
| Short Story (aka White Torpedo) | 5c | – | 0 |
| South Face Center | 5c | – | 0 |
| Target Audience | 5c | – | 0 |
| Terminator, The | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Cryptologists | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Good Book | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Jungle (aka Apocalypse Now) | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Renter | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Rubber Room | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Unicorner | 5c | – | 0 |
| Thin Air | 5c | – | 0 |
| Twinkle Toes | 5c | – | 0 |
| Uncertainty Principle | 5c | – | 0 |
| Us and Them | 5c | – | 0 |
| Use a Gun, Go to Jail | 5c | – | 0 |
| Vice Squad | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wailing Sax | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wally George | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wanna Bong | 5c | – | 0 |
| Wayward Westerners | 5c | – | 0 |
| Write In | 5c | – | 0 |
| Boner Donor | 6a | – | 0 |
| Buenos Aires | 6a | – | 0 |
| Caramel Crunch | 6a | – | 0 |
| Check Your Head | 6a | – | 0 |
| Connect the Dots | 6a | – | 0 |
| Crystal Calisthenics | 6a | – | 0 |
| Decepticon | 6a | – | 0 |
| Dial 911 | 6a | – | 0 |
| Diamond Dogs | 6a | – | 0 |
| Doin' Life | 6a | – | 0 |
| Exorcist | 6a | – | 0 |
| Garden Angel | 6a | – | 0 |
| Guardian Angels | 6a | – | 0 |
| Hanna Montana | 6a | – | 0 |
| Holy Cross | 6a | – | 0 |
| Kid Calingula | 6a | – | 0 |
| La Bella Katchina | 6a | – | 0 |
| Lippo Suction | 6a | – | 0 |
| Maiden Voyage | 6a | – | 0 |
| Military Industrial Complex | 6a | – | 0 |
| Misha's Madness | 6a | – | 0 |
| Prime Time | 6a | – | 0 |
| Smears for Fears (aka Poodle Pile) | 6a | – | 0 |
| Space Odyssey | 6a | – | 0 |
| Stimpy | 6a | – | 0 |
| Stress Puppet | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Accidental Purist | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Kid | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Snake Dike | 6a | – | 0 |
| Tipples in Rime | 6a | – | 0 |
| Tumbling Dice | 6a | – | 0 |
| Venetian Blinds | 6a | – | 0 |
| Visual Nightmare | 6a | – | 0 |
| Walk on the Steep Side | 6a | – | 0 |
| You Missed | 6a | – | 0 |
| Zarmog the Dragon Man | 6a | – | 0 |
| 5150 | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Aero Space | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Barking Spiders | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Black Ice | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Bloody Knuckles | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Boom Boom Room | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Broken Aero | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Bruckner's Boogie | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Cole-Anderson | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Don't Touch Jessica's Crack | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Eileen Right | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Ether Binge | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Event Horizon | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Grape Nuts, Why Not? | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Hanging Hungover | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Happy Meal | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Hellraiser | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Horror-zontal Terror-verse | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| I Smell a Rat | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| If You see Crow, Bark! | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Inept Tune | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Molar Crack | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Mr Bunny Meets the Expando Flake | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Mr. Bunny's Reach Around | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Retirement | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Route Right Of The Dumbest Climb In the Monument | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Slim Pickings | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Space Mountain | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Teen Steam | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| That | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Posse | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Sound of Rishas Ears Flapping | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Three Amigos | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Thin Ice | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Tiny Terra | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Tiptoe To Topanga | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Trigger Hippie | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Unknown 2 | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Wait Until Dark | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| What's Left | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Birdland | 6b | – | 0 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 6b | – | 0 |
| Catch A Falling Car | 6b | – | 0 |
| Cosmic Dance of Sheba | 6b | – | 0 |
| Devil Inside | 6b | – | 0 |
| Dwarf Star (aka Aftershock) | 6b | – | 0 |
| Episcopalian Toothpick | 6b | – | 0 |
| First Eleven | 6b | – | 0 |
| Flakey Puffs From Hell | 6b | – | 0 |
| Hellbender | 6b | – | 0 |
| Meteorite Crack | 6b | – | 0 |
| Nightline | 6b | – | 0 |
| Nobody Walks Their Car in LA | 6b | – | 0 |
| Pullups to Pasadena | 6b | – | 0 |
| Schlock Therapy | 6b | – | 0 |
| Shaking Hands with the Unemployed | 6b | – | 0 |
| Shock Therapy | 6b | – | 0 |
| Slim Pickings Indirect | 6b | – | 0 |
| Super Flapper | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Hustle | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Trouble With Tribbles | 6b | – | 0 |
| Three Bolts Closer To Divorce | 6b | – | 0 |
| Tiny Applicator | 6b | – | 0 |
| Avant Savant | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Avanti | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Banana Splits | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Beaver Boulder Free Route | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Buckets of Blort | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Cheap Way to Die | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Chinese Kayak | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Elliot Mess | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Harlequin | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Harley Queen | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Hellion of Troy | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Knob Cheese | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Little Star | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Planet Claire | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Presbyterian Dental Floss | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Quick Fix | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Slimmer Pickins | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Landlord | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Where Have all the Cowboys Gone | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Archer (aka Friable Tuck) | 6c | – | 0 |
| Avant Yvonne (aka Read my Flips) | 6c | – | 0 |
| Bush League | 6c | – | 0 |
| Cactus Flower | 6c | – | 0 |
| Dirty Minds | 6c | – | 0 |
| Grit Roof | 6c | – | 0 |
| Guns in the Sky | 6c | – | 0 |
| Heart of Darkness | 6c | – | 0 |
| Jane's Addiction | 6c | – | 0 |
| Made In The USA | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mission Impossible | 6c | – | 0 |
| Mork and Mindy | 6c | – | 0 |
| Nose to the Grindstone | 6c | – | 0 |
| Path of the Oyster | 6c | – | 0 |
| Pinnacle Aerobics | 6c | – | 0 |
| Pull My Finger, Barbara | 6c | – | 0 |
| Read My Lips | 6c | – | 0 |
| Red Bull | 6c | – | 0 |
| Riding the Cotton Pony | 6c | – | 0 |
| Rocky Road | 6c | – | 0 |
| Shakin' Like Milk | 6c | – | 0 |
| Simmer Down | 6c | – | 0 |
| Six Shooter | 6c | – | 0 |
| Spock | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Antichrist (aka Small Town, Big Girls) | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Oyster Bar | 6c | – | 0 |
| Thorazine Shuffle Left | 6c | – | 0 |
| Tomb Raiders | 6c | – | 0 |
| Ungawaa | 6c | – | 0 |
| Up 40 | 6c | – | 0 |
| Venus Which is Green (aka Disposition Crevice) | 6c | – | 0 |
| Whipped Topping | 6c | – | 0 |
| Adolescent Behavior | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Avant Cave | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Bunnies | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Creature Feature | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Face Lift | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Filet 'o Finger | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Hell Week | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Iron Curtain | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Old Guys Gone Nuts, Gone to the Cops | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Smurf's Up | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| The Ayatollah | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Thin Vice | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Tooth Decay | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| We Don't Need No Stinking Badges | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Bulletproof | 7a | – | 0 |
| Chain Gang | 7a | – | 0 |
| In A Silent Way | 7a | – | 0 |
| Incisor | 7a | – | 0 |
| Pox on You | 7a | – | 0 |
| Raging Bull Dike | 7a | – | 0 |
| Split Personality | 7a | – | 0 |
| Triumph Arch | 7a | – | 0 |
| Avant Chain | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Boy's Don't Cry | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Friction Impossible | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| I Saw Elvis | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Love Goddess | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Mr. Wizard | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Stems and Seeds | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| The Almighty (aka Mighty High) | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Thorazine Shuffle Right | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Father Ocean | 7b | – | 0 |
| Headmaster | 7b | – | 0 |
| Smashing Pumpkins | 7b | – | 0 |
| Headbanger's Ball | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Moonshadow | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Silver Spur | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| This is Only a Test | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Skin of the Teeth | 7c | – | 0 |
| Blinds Man Bluff | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| The Cutting Edge | 8b | – | 0 |
| The Mantler | V-easy | – | 0 |
| John Cena | V0 | – | 0 |
| Wiggle Till You Squiggle at the Debutant Ball | V1 | – | 0 |
| Trashman Roof | – | – | 0 |
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