Portland, Oregon has many good reasons that will take your rock climbing experience up to great new heights. This micro-region has is it all for both rock climbing and peak-bagging style mountaineering within a close drive of the city.

Qualitative Reasons to rock climb here:

  • 500+ rock climbing routes within a one hour drive of Portland, and many more climbing routes within a 2-hour drive.
  • Excellent four season crags such as Broughton Bluff, Madrone Wall, and Ozone Wall.
  • A large selection of indoor sport gyms to help you toward year-round peak performance and to climb at your best level when you are rock climbing outdoors.
  • A vibrant community of local citizens concerned and aware for the future of climbing.
  • Excellent restaurants, great music, shops extraordinaire, fine organic stores like Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, New Seasons Market, & more.
  • Smith Rock state park in Central Oregon is just a quick 3-hour drive from the city of Portland.
  • A plethora of rock climbing routes rated from 5.0 to 5.13.
  • The proximate convenience of Mt Hood (from Portland) beckons for great winter skiing, and a variety of mountaineering challenges on a 11,325' high volcanic peak.
  • And this Sync resource web page, which is designed to help you get the info quickly.

Book and Map Resources

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Portland Rock Climbs

Great local web site that provides informative climbing guidebooks for Portland, Oregon, SW Washington, and NW Oregon.

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Beacon Rock Map

Provides climbers with great opportunities to experience the taste of 'big wall' climbing on a famous Columbia River Gorge monolith located right here in Southwest Washington.