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Austin360 blogs > Out & About > Archives > 2008 > August > 13 > Entry

Your A-List, Best Place to Go Rock Climbing

By Michael Barnes | Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 06:10 PM

Hmmm. Let’s see. If you asked readers the best place to go rock climbing in Central Texas, what spot do you think they’d pick? Oh, how about that looming, basalt granite outcropping in the Llano Uplift that has mesmerized humans for as long as humans have populated the Hill Country. Yes, Enchanted Rock, our own version of Australia’s Ayer’s Rock, poking out near Fredericksburg, offers a gentle ascent for the day hiker, but also steep slabby face climbing up its bald pate for the more advanced. It snapped up 41 percent of the vote in the A-List contest.

Barton Creek Greenbelt, where cliffs enclose a winding West Austin canyon, came in second with 16 percent. Reimers Ranch, 30 miles southwest of Austin but still in Travis County, tripped third at 15 percent. McKinney Falls State Park, the smooth, moundy rapids practically in sight of the Austin-Bergstrom Airport, pulled up 8 percent. Pace Bend State Park out on Lake Travis sailed into the next spot with 7 percent. Accruing less than 5 percent: Bull Creek Boulders, Guadalupe Peak, Hueco Rock Ranch and Monster Rock.

Aren’t a few of those way out in West Texas? I guess you can’t go too far for a good rock.

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