General

Several dozen boulders in Northwest Branch Park in Silver Spring. Unlike most bouldering close to DC, many of these are actual boulders with top-outs.

The difficulty level ranges from 5.1 to V11 (you don’t have to be a “real boulderer”). The area’s best features, though, are a two-minute detour off the Washington beltway, a parking lot that doesn’t fill up, and a one-minute approach to most of it along a maintained path. There’s also a mountain bike/hiking path

A crash pad and spotter are useful here. Cell phone coverage is good

Getting There

From the Washington Beltway east of Route 270, take the exit for Route 29 North one and a half miles and park on the right (east) side, in the parking lot (next to a brick building) just south of the Trader Joe’s. The path east to the boulders starts in a corner of the parking lot.

Guidebooks

Mountainproject information is here. There is a pdf guide here.

And q digital guide here written by Dana Miller and Robin Close, the author of the pdf.