Crags
Joshua Tree
United States guidebook sector.
Browse 355 climbs in this Joshua Tree sector, with practical notes for the approach, base, and suitability.
United States guidebook sector.
Every climb in this sector is listed below.
Every climb is listed below, easiest first.
353 climbs · 3 to 8b · most at 5a–5c
2 climbs · V4 to V7
Sorted from easiest to hardest.
| Route | Grade | Stars | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy Buttress-Left | 3 | – | 0 |
| Mastering Five-Two | 3 | – | 0 |
| Bearly Worth It | 3+ | – | 0 |
| Easy Buttress-Right | 3+ | – | 0 |
| First Little Pig | 3+ | – | 0 |
| Shardik | 3+ | – | 0 |
| Boost for the Beginner | 4a | – | 0 |
| False Pahrump | 4a | – | 0 |
| Fright Night | 4a | – | 0 |
| How Loose Is Your Goose | 4a | – | 0 |
| Look Mom, No Sweat | 4a | – | 0 |
| Melanoma | 4a | – | 0 |
| Muff Divers | 4a | – | 0 |
| Pahrump | 4a | – | 0 |
| Person Sitting in Darkness | 4a | – | 0 |
| Reggie Zigzags | 4a | – | 0 |
| Route 66 | 4a | – | 0 |
| Sandal Crack | 4a | – | 0 |
| The Key Hole | 4a | – | 0 |
| Hairline | 4b | – | 0 |
| Half and Half | 4b | – | 0 |
| Kodiak | 4b | – | 0 |
| Spire Route | 4b | – | 0 |
| The Chief | 4b | – | 0 |
| Ursa Minor | 4b | – | 0 |
| Yellow Peril | 4b | – | 0 |
| Andre the Giant | 4c | – | 0 |
| Asian Sponge Bath | 4c | – | 0 |
| Bound Outward | 4c | – | 0 |
| Bush Driver | 4c | – | 0 |
| Cool Dome Pinnacle | 4c | – | 0 |
| Emoji | 4c | – | 0 |
| Glen's Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Handicapped Zone | 4c | – | 0 |
| Irish Toothache | 4c | – | 0 |
| It's Not Brain Surgery | 4c | – | 0 |
| James Brown | 4c | – | 0 |
| Look Mom, No Hands | 4c | – | 0 |
| n00b t00b | 4c | – | 0 |
| Not The Clean Crack | 4c | – | 0 |
| Quo Vadis | 4c | – | 0 |
| Speed Bump | 4c | – | 0 |
| Tanning Salon | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Chicken Ranch | 4c | – | 0 |
| The Key Knob | 4c | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 4c | – | 0 |
| A Danger To Herself And Others | 5a | – | 0 |
| Able Was I Ere I Saw Ellesmere | 5a | – | 0 |
| As the Wind Blows | 5a | – | 0 |
| Asian Friends | 5a | – | 0 |
| Baby Roof | 5a | – | 0 |
| Beating Around the Bush | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bighorn Hand Crack | 5a | – | 0 |
| Bleed Proof | 5a | – | 0 |
| Broken Plates | 5a | – | 0 |
| Cheap Pottery | 5a | – | 0 |
| Chocolate Decadence | 5a | – | 0 |
| Cross-Roads Finish | 5a | – | 0 |
| Da Kitty! Da Kitty! | 5a | – | 0 |
| Dig Your Own Cactus | 5a | – | 0 |
| Dreams Of Red Rocks | 5a | – | 0 |
| Etiquette Rex, The Well Mannered Dog | 5a | – | 0 |
| Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity | 5a | – | 0 |
| Gourmet Sausage | 5a | – | 0 |
| Head Room | 5a | – | 0 |
| Jack | 5a | – | 0 |
| Keep the Worm Firm | 5a | – | 0 |
| Left Overs | 5a | – | 0 |
| Little Brown Jug | 5a | – | 0 |
| Look Mom No Name | 5a | – | 0 |
| Look Mom, No Brains | 5a | – | 0 |
| Maizy | 5a | – | 0 |
| Margo's Cargo | 5a | – | 0 |
| Mission Bells | 5a | – | 0 |
| Mom For The Road | 5a | – | 0 |
| Morris | 5a | – | 0 |
| Mr. Comforte | 5a | – | 0 |
| Paint Me Gigi | 5a | – | 0 |
| Plates and Pockets | 5a | – | 0 |
| Polar Bears in Bondage | 5a | – | 0 |
| Pops Goes Hawaiian | 5a | – | 0 |
| Robitussin | 5a | – | 0 |
| SARS | 5a | – | 0 |
| Squeeze, Pull, and Yank | 5a | – | 0 |
| Steeper Than It Looks | 5a | – | 0 |
| Teahupo'o | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Litter Box | 5a | – | 0 |
| The Unreported | 5a | – | 0 |
| Too Far From Water | 5a | – | 0 |
| Twinkle Toes | 5a | – | 0 |
| Ursa Major | 5a | – | 0 |
| Weo | 5a | – | 0 |
| Zonker's Brownies | 5a | – | 0 |
| AC/DC | 5b | – | 0 |
| Baby Face | 5b | – | 0 |
| Baby On Board | 5b | – | 0 |
| Barrett's | 5b | – | 0 |
| Ben Scabbyface | 5b | – | 0 |
| Blame It On Cain | 5b | – | 0 |
| Breaking Bad | 5b | – | 0 |
| Breaking Point | 5b | – | 0 |
| Brevis Arbor Fragor | 5b | – | 0 |
| Bubbalicious | 5b | – | 0 |
| Buck | 5b | – | 0 |
| Cactus Challenge | 5b | – | 0 |
| Calgary Stampede | 5b | – | 0 |
| Curbside | 5b | – | 0 |
| Desert Senna | 5b | – | 0 |
| Don't Overlook | 5b | – | 0 |
| Fender Bender | 5b | – | 0 |
| Fuzzy Energy | 5b | – | 0 |
| George's Route (aka Binder) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Hit it Ethel | 5b | – | 0 |
| Kublai Corner | 5b | – | 0 |
| Letdown, The | 5b | – | 0 |
| Liver Brothers | 5b | – | 0 |
| Love Shack | 5b | – | 0 |
| My Goose Is Loose | 5b | – | 0 |
| Oral Sex Bozeman | 5b | – | 0 |
| Original Route (aka Jake Off) | 5b | – | 0 |
| Outward Bound Slab Route | 5b | – | 0 |
| Randy | 5b | – | 0 |
| Reverend Blitzo's Hairless Boys Choir | 5b | – | 0 |
| Roller Coaster | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tea Party | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Caterpillar | 5b | – | 0 |
| The Rabbit Hole | 5b | – | 0 |
| Through the Looking Glass | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tia | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tige | 5b | – | 0 |
| Troglodyte Crack | 5b | – | 0 |
| Tucson Bound | 5b | – | 0 |
| Undercling Bypass | 5b | – | 0 |
| A Bull with Gas | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bank Note Blues | 5c | – | 0 |
| Bradley | 5c | – | 0 |
| Buster Brown | 5c | – | 0 |
| Capital Gains | 5c | – | 0 |
| Cat Walk | 5c | – | 0 |
| Center Divider | 5c | – | 0 |
| Cherry Glazer | 5c | – | 0 |
| Clamming at the Beach | 5c | – | 0 |
| Corn Dog | 5c | – | 0 |
| Coyote Corner | 5c | – | 0 |
| DMB, The | 5c | – | 0 |
| E. B. Bon Homme | 5c | – | 0 |
| Excuuuse Me | 5c | – | 0 |
| Finger in a Blender | 5c | – | 0 |
| Flaming Doobries | 5c | – | 0 |
| Friendly Fists | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gail Winds | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gandy | 5c | – | 0 |
| Grubstake Days | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gumjob | 5c | – | 0 |
| Gun for the Sun | 5c | – | 0 |
| Hammer and Chain | 5c | – | 0 |
| I Taught I Saw A Puddy Cat | 5c | – | 0 |
| Irresponsibility Lessons | 5c | – | 0 |
| Isotope | 5c | – | 0 |
| Keeping the Dragon At Bay | 5c | – | 0 |
| Kublai Khan | 5c | – | 0 |
| Leon Redbone | 5c | – | 0 |
| Lovey (aka Whale of a Time) | 5c | – | 0 |
| Made in the Shade | 5c | – | 0 |
| Math | 5c | – | 0 |
| Meter Maid | 5c | – | 0 |
| Mike Hunt | 5c | – | 0 |
| Ninny's Revenge | 5c | – | 0 |
| Oh Pinyon Crack | 5c | – | 0 |
| Old Hornington | 5c | – | 0 |
| Padded Handcuffs | 5c | – | 0 |
| River Phoenix | 5c | – | 0 |
| Shardikawoopoopie | 5c | – | 0 |
| Short but Potent | 5c | – | 0 |
| Stardust Memories | 5c | – | 0 |
| Stolen Christmas | 5c | – | 0 |
| Sunny Delight | 5c | – | 0 |
| Super Key | 5c | – | 0 |
| Teckno Sporran | 5c | – | 0 |
| Teddy | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tender Flakes of Wrath | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Golden Umbrella | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Jewel of Denial | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Jolly Toproper | 5c | – | 0 |
| The Snake | 5c | – | 0 |
| Thomson Roof | 5c | – | 0 |
| Three Hour Tour | 5c | – | 0 |
| Tia's Delight | 5c | – | 0 |
| Two Left Feet | 5c | – | 0 |
| Vulture's Roost | 5c | – | 0 |
| Where Brownies Dare | 5c | – | 0 |
| Women in Peril | 5c | – | 0 |
| Yasmine Bleeth | 5c | – | 0 |
| 42N8 One | 6a | – | 0 |
| A Date with Destiny Brown | 6a | – | 0 |
| Aftermath | 6a | – | 0 |
| Ape Man Hop | 6a | – | 0 |
| Big Gulp | 6a | – | 0 |
| Blitzo Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| Brain Tumor | 6a | – | 0 |
| Bubba Takes a Siesta | 6a | – | 0 |
| Clean Crack | 6a | – | 0 |
| Dos Chi Chis | 6a | – | 0 |
| Dr. Scholl's Wild Ride | 6a | – | 0 |
| Fantastique! | 6a | – | 0 |
| Fresh Squeezed | 6a | – | 0 |
| Fuzz Bumper | 6a | – | 0 |
| Garden Path | 6a | – | 0 |
| Guns for Nuns | 6a | – | 0 |
| Hollywood Rattlesnake | 6a | – | 0 |
| I'm a local | 6a | – | 0 |
| It's Not Rocket Science | 6a | – | 0 |
| Love Gas | 6a | – | 0 |
| Major Creative Effort | 6a | – | 0 |
| New Day Yesterday | 6a | – | 0 |
| Northwest Passage | 6a | – | 0 |
| Old Man Down the Road, The | 6a | – | 0 |
| One For The Road | 6a | – | 0 |
| Pillar Of Dawn | 6a | – | 0 |
| Puss Boy | 6a | – | 0 |
| Riders On The Storm | 6a | – | 0 |
| Science Experiments You Can Eat | 6a | – | 0 |
| See Mop Who | 6a | – | 0 |
| Short Cut | 6a | – | 0 |
| Sublimation | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Booger Man | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Great Unknown | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Man Who Cried (AKA Julius Seizure) | 6a | – | 0 |
| The New Shoe Review | 6a | – | 0 |
| The Screaming Woman | 6a | – | 0 |
| Through the Looking Glass | 6a | – | 0 |
| Thumbs Up | 6a | – | 0 |
| Toby | 6a | – | 0 |
| Tower of Godliness - Original Route | 6a | – | 0 |
| Tres Fun | 6a | – | 0 |
| Unknown | 6a | – | 0 |
| Way Cool | 6a | – | 0 |
| Bedtime For Democracy | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Ben's Magic Weenie | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Cole-Lewis | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| El Smear or Land | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Fage | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| High and Dry (AKA Short But Flared) | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Hiss the Mark | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Knee Knockers | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Lion's Share | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Mary Ann or Ginger? | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Muffin Bandits | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Muffin Head | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| New Hampshire, Naturally | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Nonprofit Crack | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Nuclear Waste | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Offshoot | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Rickets And Scurvy | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Roam | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Rope Drag | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Showers With Dad | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Bazooka | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| The Key Crack | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Thompson's Acne | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Too Secret to Find | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Under A Raging Moon | 6a+ | – | 0 |
| Balance Due | 6b | – | 0 |
| Bighorn Dihedral | 6b | – | 0 |
| Bone on Bone | 6b | – | 0 |
| Burst the Bubble | 6b | – | 0 |
| Child Proof | 6b | – | 0 |
| Cora-Door | 6b | – | 0 |
| Dimpled Chad | 6b | – | 0 |
| Foreign Legion | 6b | – | 0 |
| Hole in the Wall | 6b | – | 0 |
| Horseshoe Canyon Ranch | 6b | – | 0 |
| Hubba Bubba | 6b | – | 0 |
| Little Bit Of Magic, A | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mortal Thoughts | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mustang Ranch | 6b | – | 0 |
| Mygraines | 6b | – | 0 |
| No Self Confidence | 6b | – | 0 |
| Nuts And Bolts Of Climbing, the | 6b | – | 0 |
| Pain is an Emotion | 6b | – | 0 |
| Point Break | 6b | – | 0 |
| Roark | 6b | – | 0 |
| Rob'n The Cradle | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Bilderberg Conference | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Dunce Cap | 6b | – | 0 |
| The Screaming Poodle | 6b | – | 0 |
| Too Thin For Poodles | 6b | – | 0 |
| Wide World Of Sports | 6b | – | 0 |
| Wren's Nest | 6b | – | 0 |
| You'll Rattle on This One! | 6b | – | 0 |
| Do the Math | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Earth And Sky | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Fracture Dynamics | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Frank's Sandwich | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Geometry | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Ginger's Crack | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Gumshoe | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Heaven Can Wait | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Hyperventilation | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Natural Selection | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| No Self Respect | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Polytechnics | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Pop Goes the Weasel | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Roomis E. Gloomis | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Grinch's Grin | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Last Unicorn | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| The Shiv | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old | 6b+ | – | 0 |
| Arms Are For Hugging | 6c | – | 0 |
| Birthday Crew Arete | 6c | – | 0 |
| Broken Dreams | 6c | – | 0 |
| Catapult | 6c | – | 0 |
| Chute To Kill | 6c | – | 0 |
| Cinnamon Girl | 6c | – | 0 |
| Genghis Khan | 6c | – | 0 |
| High Interest | 6c | – | 0 |
| Hooterville Trolley | 6c | – | 0 |
| Lemon Slicer | 6c | – | 0 |
| Pretty in Pink | 6c | – | 0 |
| Private Idaho | 6c | – | 0 |
| Quantum Mechanics | 6c | – | 0 |
| Seitch Tactics | 6c | – | 0 |
| Sitting Bull | 6c | – | 0 |
| Slow Mutants | 6c | – | 0 |
| Spirited Away | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Knight In Shining Armor | 6c | – | 0 |
| The Mole | 6c | – | 0 |
| The S Cracker | 6c | – | 0 |
| Weekend Warrior | 6c | – | 0 |
| [Redacted] | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Compact Physical | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Double Stem | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Psychokinesis | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Shin Bashers | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Stonehinge | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| The Tombstone | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Waltzing in the Wonderland | 6c+ | – | 0 |
| Arms Control | 7a | – | 0 |
| Blue Velvet | 7a | – | 0 |
| Brown Sugar | 7a | – | 0 |
| Hyperion | 7a | – | 0 |
| Seitch and Destroy | 7a | – | 0 |
| Ionic Strength | 7a+ | – | 0 |
| Warrior Eagle | 7b | – | 0 |
| No Self Control | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Bern | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Thrill of Desire | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| Warpath | 7b+ | – | 0 |
| The Powers That Be | 7c+ | – | 0 |
| Ocean of Doubt | 8a | – | 0 |
| Chain of Addiction | 8a+ | – | 0 |
| Hydra | 8a+ | – | 0 |
| La Machine | 8b | – | 0 |
| Chili Pepper | V4 | – | 0 |
| Nuñez Problem | V7 | – | 0 |
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