Venue Category: Bouldering

Sugarloaf

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Sugarloaf Mountain is a small 1,200ft monadnock  20 miles south of Frederick, MD.  Sugarloaf offers local climbers some of the closest traditional lead climbing to the Washington Metro Area. It is also notable for some excellent top-rope routes, as well as numerous boulder problems scattered throughout the forest.

The private Stronghold Foundation owns the land and welcomes many hikers and climbers each year.  Please bring $5 cash to donate at the entrance (encouraged but not required). Sugarloaf is also a trash free park, so pack it in pack it out. There are port-a-potties at the West parking lot.

The most popular climbing areas – Middle Earth and Boy Scout Ledges – are a short walk from the  West View Parking lot

To reach Sugarloaf, follow I270 to the Hyattstown exit, follow Route 109 to Comus, then right on Comus Road to the Sugarloaf Mountain entrance.

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Address:
7901 Comus Road, Dickerson, Maryland, 20842, United States

Cooper’s Rock

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Venue Phone: (304) 594-1561

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Coopers Rock is a WV State Park near Morgantown.  It offers sandstone bouldering and some roped climbing.

Mountainproject has some information, and there are two published guidebooks that are helpful. Coopers Rock Bouldering Guide is the most current guide for bouldering (though it’s not up to date at this point) and Cheat Canyon Rock by Andrew Leich is the most current rope climbing guide.

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Address:
61 County Line Dr, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, 25525, United States