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 & Cheat Canyon

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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.

The Cheat Canyon is nearby and offers around 600 sport and trad climbs.  There is some coverage in Mountainproject for the Snake Hill Wildlife Management area but you’ll likely need a guidebook for other areas.

Mountainproject has some information for Coopers Rock, and there are two published bouldering guidebooks that are helpful. Coopers Rock Bouldering Guide is an older guide.  More recent guides to Cooper’s Rock and the Cheat Canyon can be found at Cheat Canyon Rock

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