Utah Guidebooks

Ogden Bouldering Guide

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The most comprehensive Ogden Bouldering Guide to date written by local-legend and developer Anthony Chertudi! This guide contains 500 quartzite problems on the Ogden bench ranging from V0-V15. With offline maps, high-fidelity GPS location, beta videos, topos, descriptions, and more, you can experience Ogden bouldering like never before. Purchasing KAYA PRO will also enable unfettered access to a broad ranging selection of digital guides for classic areas such as Little Cottonwood Canyon, Joe's and Moe's Valley, Red Rock, Bishop, Squamish, and Leavenworth, to name a handful!

Pocket Guide: Ogden Schoolroom

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Ogden's Schoolroom is the most developed areas in Utah's Northern Wasatch Front. This mile long continuous cliff band hosts regional test pieces, iconic routes, and a diversity of climbing for all skill levels, abilities, and disciplines. For those new or unacquainted to this area, navigating can be a hurdle for accessing and enjoying objectives. This pocket guide offers a detailed, comprehensive overview of routes and logistics. It is the first to comprehensively document recent new crag developments while providing full color topos. A portion of proceeds from the sale of this guide will be used to promote access, safety, conservation, and education within the Ogden UT climbing region. May it inspire you to explore this unique destination which has shaped iconic climbers throughout the decades.

The Standard Guide to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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Full color photos of over 200 routes. Rack information. Pitch distances. Satellite approach photos. 4" x 6". 184 pages. At 6" x 4" x .3" it packs a lot of information into a small and light package. No advertising. No action photos. No elitist attitude. Classic, Demure, Earthy, Durable, Comprehensive, Factual, Accurate, Functional, Practical. Fits in your back pocket. Photos are bigger than many in huge guides. Sport routes are blue. Traditional routes are red. Water and tear resistant polyurethane cover and binding. Matte paper is easier to write on with pencil, pen, felt tip, etc. Made in USA. $14.98 Find it at The Gear Room.

Areas Covered: City Creek Canyon, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Grandeur Hills, Millcreek Canyon, Olympus Hills, Powder Ridge, Deaf Smith Canyon, Rocky Mouth Canyon, Hidden Valley Park (Big Willow), Orson Smith Park (The Balcony) and Draper Red Rock.

Northern Utah

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Northern Utah is well known for its high quality limestone, especially in the world renowned Logan Canyon. With recently added crags, including those of Causey, this region has become even more of a destination area. Casey Hyer's guide provides information on hundreds of routes in the Logan Area.

Welcome Springs Sport Climbing Guide

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Authored by the president of St. George Climbers Coalition, Todd Perkins, this Welcome Springs route guide is continuously updated and hosts detailed information, GPS, topos, and descriptions for more than 100 routes. Access to over one hundred other guides are included with purchase of a KAYA subscription.

Little Cottonwood Canyon Bouldering Guide

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The most comprehensive Little Cottonwood Canyon Bouldering Guide to date written by local-legend and developer, Mike Beck and data superstar, Scott Stoddard! This guide contains 5,000+ granite problems in LCC ranging from V0-V16. With offline maps, high-fidelity GPS location, beta videos, topos, descriptions, and more, you can experience Little Cottonwood bouldering like never before. Purchasing KAYA PRO will also enable unfettered access to a broad ranging selection of digital guides for classic areas such as Ogden, Joe's and Moe's Valley, Red Rock, Bishop, Squamish, and Leavenworth, to name a handful!

Little Cottonwood Rock Climbing

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This comprehensive guide includes close-up, pitch-by-pitch photos of 1000 routes... all in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Other areas are covered in separate guidebooks, leaving this guide more compact. At 6" x 4" x 1.3" it packs a lot of information into a small and light package. No advertising. No action photos. No elitist attitude. Classic, Demure, Earthy, Durable, Comprehensive, Factual, Accurate, Functional, Practical. Fits in your back pocket. Photos are bigger than many in huge guides. Sport routes are blue. Traditional routes are red. Easy to remember. Durable construction details include a water and tear resistant polyurethane cover and binding and 87# matte paper. Matte paper is easier to write on with pencil, pen, felt tip, etc. Made in USA. $29.98 Find it at: The Gear Room or REI.

Pocket Guide: Ogden Schoolroom

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Ogden's Schoolroom is the most developed areas in Utah's Northern Wasatch Front. This mile long continuous cliff band hosts regional test pieces, iconic routes, and a diversity of climbing for all skill levels, abilities, and disciplines. For those new or unacquainted to this area, navigating can be a hurdle for accessing and enjoying objectives. This pocket guide offers a detailed, comprehensive overview of routes and logistics. It is the first to comprehensively document recent new crag developments while providing full color topos. A portion of proceeds from the sale of this guide will be used to promote access, safety, conservation, and education within the Ogden UT climbing region. May it inspire you to explore this unique destination which has shaped iconic climbers throughout the decades.

Ogden Area Climbing Guide: From Brigham City to Echo Canyon

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This is the first comprehensive guidebook ever written for the northern Wasatch Front. The Ogden area’s rich history of climbing combined with a recent explosion of new route activity is certain to put Ogden on the map. This book includes several areas never before documented, dozens of new routes, and all the classics. The variety of climbing has something for every climber from the alpine rock climbs of the Willard Spires, easy access sport routes and toproping at 9th Street, hard limestone test pieces at Causey, long traditional routes on the Macabre Wall, superb bouldering in St. Joe’s boulder field, Maple Canyon-like cobble climbing in Echo Canyon, and the alluring combination of sport and trad routes overlooking Ogden city on the Schoolroom Wall.

Moe's Valley Bouldering Guide on KAYA

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This digital bouldering guide is the most comprehensive and complete for the area to date. It includes topos, GPS coordinates, and beta videos for over three hundred problems within Moe's Valley AND Super Mario Land. It is available to be downloaded fully offline for seamless use when in spotty service.

The Standard Guide to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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The scope of this book is rock climbing in the foothills of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Areas include: City Creek Canyon, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Grandeur Hills, Millcreek Canyon, Olympus Hills, Powder Ridge, Deaf Smith Canyon, Rocky Mouth Canyon, Hidden Valley Park, Orson Smith Park and Draper Red Rock. These are your neighborhood crags. This guide compliments the author's multi-volume compilation of guidebooks to the rock climbing routes east of Salt Lake Valley.

The Standard Guid to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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The scope of this book is rock climbing in the foothills of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Areas include: City Creek Canyon, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Grandeur Hills, Millcreek Canyon, Olympus Hills, Powder Ridge, Deaf Smith Canyon, Rocky Mouth Canyon, Hidden Valley Park, Orson Smith Park and Draper Red Rock. These are your neighborhood crags. This guide compliments the author's multi-volume compilation of guidebooks to the rock climbing routes east of Salt Lake Valley.

The Standard Guide to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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The scope of this book is rock climbing in the foothills of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Areas include: City Creek Canyon, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Grandeur Hills, Millcreek Canyon, Olympus Hills, Powder Ridge, Deaf Smith Canyon, Rocky Mouth Canyon, Hidden Valley Park, Orson Smith Park and Draper Red Rock. These are your neighborhood crags. This guide compliments the author's multi-volume compilation of guidebooks to the rock climbing routes east of Salt Lake Valley.

The Standard Guide to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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The scope of this book is rock climbing in the foothills of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Areas include: City Creek Canyon, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Grandeur Hills, Millcreek Canyon, Olympus Hills, Powder Ridge, Deaf Smith Canyon, Rocky Mouth Canyon, Hidden Valley Park, Orson Smith Park and Draper Red Rock. These are your neighborhood crags. This guide compliments the author's multi-volume compilation of guidebooks to the rock climbing routes east of Salt Lake Valley. Full color photos of over 200 routes. Rack information. Pitch distances. Satellite approach photos. 4" x 6". 184 pages. At 6" x 4" x .3" it packs a lot of information into a small and light package. No advertising. No action photos. No elitist attitude. Classic, Demure, Earthy, Durable, Comprehensive, Factual, Accurate, Functional, Practical. Fits in your back pocket. Photos are bigger than many in huge guides. Sport routes are blue. Traditional routes are red. Water and tear resistant polyurethane cover and binding. Matte paper is easier to write on with pencil, pen, felt tip, etc. Made in USA. $14.98 Find it at The Gear Room.

The Standard Guide to Wasatch Bench Rock Climbing

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The only guide ever written that has photo-topos of rock climbs in Parleys Canyon.

The Standard Guide to Big Cottonwood Canyon Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition

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Over 800 rock climbing routes in Utah's Big Cottonwood Canyon are shown on full-color photos. Layout is consistent throughout to find your route fast. Routes are clearly color-coded, differentiating sport and traditional style routes. Many routes can't be found in any other source. Standard-setting approach maps include USGS-stye colored terrain with contour lines and elevation. Satellite photographs. Customized rack information for every route. No advertising. No gratuitous artwork. 6"x 4"x 1", less than 1 pound, and a laminated cover... this is a true field guide. Made in the U.S.A.

Beehive Ice

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The bible for ice in the Beehive State: Utah

Ferguson Canyon Rock Climbing

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Salt Lake locals know Ferguson Canyon has a niche following in the area's well-deserved reputation for quality crags. The climbing is on granite, but is uniquely different than the glacier-polished slabs of nearby Little Cottonwood. Typically steep cracks and seams are often horizontal, and large crystal holds are common. The canyon is a favorite with dog owners who are not allowed to bring their pups into the Cottonwood Canyons. Trying to escape the heat? Another reason climbers like Ferguson. Nearly all the routes are shaded for most of the day. And the swamp cooling effect of the nearby stream is an ever-present pleasure when temps soar. Climbing here is a pleasurable outing, rather than an adventurous commitment. Some of the best routes in the canyon include: Monogamy (5.7), Crystal Healing (5.8+), Imperial (5.9), Extreme Unction (5.10-), Delirium Tremens (5.11-), and Fuego (5.12a). Vertical finger and hand cracks may show up for a move or two, but they are, strangely, the exception. Chimneys abound. Routes didn't start going up here until the 1980s. Many of the originals were free-soloed or led using micro-nuts in flaring seams. The early pioneers included Les Ellison, Brian Smoot, and Drew Bedford. The 1990s saw slightly better protected routes going up with hand-drilled bolt placement by Hank Armantrout. The turn of the century brought a radically different approach from Greg Martinez. His routes provide the majority of sport climbing in the canyon. Long-time local guide, Tony Calderone, provides excellent, up-to-date information on the most comprehensive compilation of 160 Ferguson Canyon rock climbing routes.

Climber's Guide to American Fork/Rock Canyon

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Great guide to the limestone in American Fork and Rock Canyon.

Triassic Bouldering Guide

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The most comprehensive Triassic bouldering guide to date. Over 300 problems with GPS, topos, and descriptions!

Ibex Bouldering Guide

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The most extensive Ibex bouldering guide to date--written by local climber and developer Aaron Child. This guide contains accurate GPS, descriptions, topos, and beta videos for hundreds of problems in the beautiful Ibex desert.

Ibex and Selected Climbs of Utah's West Desert

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Contains fantastic background on the area. Not only does this guide provide route information for Ibex and some other west desert climbs, it includes history, ethical considerations for the area, and a descriptive geology lesson that is unmatched by other guidebooks.

FEATURED: Wall St. Climbing Guide Book

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$7 PDF Guidebook for Wall Street with photos of each route. 100% of profits will be going towards the First Nations Development Institute.

The Official Joe's Valley Guidebook

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The VERY long-awaited Joe's Valley Bouldering Guidebook by Steven Jeffery is finally here! Available digitally on KAYA PRO, this guide contains over 900 problems with detailed topo information and descriptions. The app has interactive GPS mapping and is available fully offline so it can be used in the canyons without service. Additionally, each problem contains a host of beta videos which can also be downloaded for offline use in-app. It is currently $10/month or $60 for an annual subscription. KAYA plans to release many more guidebooks which all be available for that sole ubscription price.

Joe’s Valley: A Bouldering Guide to Classic Moderates

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A guidebook to the best moderate boulder problems in Joe's Valley.
• V0 – V7
• 26 Mega-Classics
• 22 Classics
• 34 other Greats
• Minimal Hiking
• Clear Directions
• Clear Descriptions
• Full Color Action Photos of each
problem
• Up-to-date info on new Camping Area,
New Welcome Park, Water, Toilets, &
Broken Problems.

Not Included: Hundreds of lesser quality problems.
Not Included: Hundreds of harder problems: V8 - V14
Not Included: Several longer approach areas.
Not Included: Sandbagging

In 20 years of climbing, I’ve had my share of getting lost because of hard-to-follow info; of hiking a long way only to find out the “classic” isn’t that special, or is cruelly sandbagged. This guide aims to help you avoid being lost, bored or sandbagged; and make Joe’s Valley convenient, efficient & fun. Enjoy!

Jungle on The Aquarius Plateau Guide Book Coming Soon...

Creek Freak: Indian Creek Climbs

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Karl Kelley has likely spent more time in Indian Creek than any other climber. He can be spotted at crags—obscure and popular—checking route beta, chatting with climbers, picking up trash, offering advice. He has climbed on 1,300 of the over 2000 routes contained within this guide (nearly double the route count of the previous book). To top it off, Karl is donating 100% of his royalties to the Access Fund and has convinced Sharp End, Pagan Mountaineering, and Gearheads to offer $1 for each book sold.

What you can expect:
First ascent info
History and historical photos
Overview maps
Gear beta
Required rope lengths
Route length
Camping beta
Detailed cliff photos

St. George Bouldering

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St. George has rapidly emerged as one of America’s great climbing destinations. St. George Bouldering is the definitive guide to the amazing problems found near this resort city. With abundant moderate problems, as well as mid-grade gems and unsent projects, St. George will not disappoint the cordless climber.

Capitol Gorgeous: A Climber's Guide to Capitol Reef National Park and Vicinity

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In the stark and beautiful country of Capitol Reef National Park and Wayne County, splitter cracks, nail-up nightmares and pebble wrestling abound. This guide is your ticket to some of the best (and worst) crags, towers and boulders out there. Come enjoy and climb in the quiet part of Utah where exploration and beauty come standard with every day of climbing.

Maple Canyon Rock Climbs

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Maple Canyon is the most popular summer sport-climbing destination in the USA. Its steep walls of cobbled conglomerate provide quality pitches for climbers of all abilities, and some of the most enjoyable — and steepest — climbing anywhere. Packed with color photographs and maps, this book provides a comprehensive guide to more than 400 rock climbs in Maple Canyon.

Maple Canyon

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The newest, most complete guide to Maple Canyon and surrounding areas. Over 600 routes in total with over 550 routes in Maple.

Zion Climbing: Free and Clean

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A great, visually appealing guide to climbing in Zion. Covers all of the popular routes, along with a bunch of stuff you've never heard of.

Currently it's the guidebook for Zion.

The photos are beautiful, the topos are works of art, and the history sections are a lot of fun to read. If it were folio-sized it'd be a coffee table book.

You can get it as a printed book or as a .pdf file

FEATURED: Moab Climbs: High on Moab

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Not only a great resource for the desert climber, but 100% of royalties go to the Access Fund.

Classic Desert Climbs

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NOW INCLUDING POTASH ROAD AND BIG BEND BOULDERING!
Utah's Canyon Country is one of the most inspirational landscapes in which to climb. Classic Desert Climbs highlights hundreds of the region's best routes with firsthand accuracy. Areas include Wall Street, the Big bend Boulders, Arches, Canyonlands, Colorado National Monument, the Moab area, and more.

Indian Creek: A Climbing Guide

Pure and unvarying, the symmetrical splitters and varnished right-angled corners of Indian Creek approach a Platonic ideal of crack climbing. David Bloom's decade of research has unearthed nearly a thousand routes conveyed here through color photos, cliff topos, and detailed descriptions. Pioneering and current Indian Creek climbers contribute essays from tales of towers to lack of power to the brashness of maiden voyages in an age before Friends. Color photographs from a host of talented photographers capture the beauty of the region and athleticism of the climbs.

Rock Climbs of Southwest Utah & The Arizona Strip

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This meticulously researched guide will inspire climbers to explore the ever expanding climbing opportunities in and around the region of St. George, Utah. With eight rock types, 60+ areas and seemingly endless opportunities , the St. George region has become the West’s premier sport climbing venue. Routes run the gamut from novice to expert, and scenery from red rock to alpine. This diverse area, boasting well over a thousand climbs, truly has something to satisfy any climber’s taste.

Rock Climbs of Southwest Utah & The Arizona Strip, Second Edition

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A thorough, easy to use resource with beautiful color photographs. You'll want to keep it on your coffee table with all your other climbing picture books.

Covers St. George and surrounding areas as well as Cedar City and its environs.

A Granite Guide

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A Granite Guide - Ferguson to Lone Peak. 2016

Covering the Wasatch Front from Ferguson Canyon to Lone Peak and containing more than 1677 routes, A Granite Guide is the most comprehensive guide to Salt Lake’s granite canyons available. From single pitch classics to multipitch alpine adventures, A Granite Guide is your source for climbing above Salt Lake City, Utah. A Granite Guide also covers Salt Lake's rich climbing history with a 10 page historical section, and 10 essays from prominent Salt Lake climbers. A Granite Guide features a sewn binding for extra durability.

Canyons Covered: Ferguson Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Bells Canyon, Big Willow Canyon, Lone Peak Cirque

Logan Canyon Climbs

Just about the only guide to Logan out there as far as I know.

Classic Rock Climbs No. 11: Wasatch Range Utah

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Features the best of Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons and American Fork Canyon. Pretty limited in scope but good if you just want something small.

Rock Climbing Utah's Wasatch Range (Falcon Guide)

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Huge and excellent climbing resources for the Wasatch Range. Does not include American Fork but covers everything from City Creek Canyon down past Little Cottonwood. A must have.

Utah's West Desert

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The definitive guide to the desert areas of Utah west of I-15 and north of St. George.

Great color photos and information from a long-time West Desert Rat (same genus as Colorado Plateau Desert Rat).

Beehive Ice

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Beehive Ice: A Guide to Utah's Ice and Mixed Climbs
Nathan Smith, Andrew Burr

464 full color pages containing more than 775 ice and mixed routes, Beehive Ice is the most comprehensive guide to Utah’s frozen winter playground.

From single pitch pillars, gullies and drytool caves to 500-1000’ flows of continuous ice lines all across the state. Utah’s diverse geography and climate contain an amazing array of climbing.

Beehive Ice also covers Utah's rich ice climbing history with a 10 page historical section, 10 essays from prominent Utah climbers.

Areas Covered:

NORTHERN UTAH
SALT LAKE VALLEY
UTAH VALLEY
NEBO RANGE
SAN PITCH MOUNTAINS
DUCHESNE
SPANISH FORK CANYON
CASTLE COUNTRY
CENTRAL UTAH
MOAB AREA
SOUTHERN UTAH

A Bouldering Guide to Utah

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The definitive guide to Utah bouldering includes Little Cottonwood, Joe's Valley, Ibex, Triassic, Moab, Huntington, Price, Wasatch Front, Maple, Cedar City, Big Rocks, St. George, and the High Uintas. Photo overlays, overview maps, and inspirational action pics make this the bouldering guide of choice.

Utah Bouldering

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A comprehensive guidebook to Utah's best bouldering areas by Chris Grijalva, Noah Bigwood, Dave Pegg. Covers Little Cottonwood Canyon, Joe's Valley, Ibex, Big Bend, Ogden. Awesome action photographs and thousands of problems.

Rock Climbing Utah

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Covers the major climbing areas in the state; a good starting reference.