Cosumnes River Gorge
Latrobe / Placerville (El Dorado County) · near Placerville · Gold Country & Central Valley
Rock Climbing
At a glance
- Skill level
- all-levels
- Grade range
- 5.6 to 5.12b
- Best season
- Spring and fall; hot in summer, seeps in winter
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Rock Climbing detail
- Climb types
- sport · trad · top-rope · bouldering
- Rock type
- Water-polished granite
- Route count
- 114 routes across 9 sub-areas + 25 boulder problems
- Signature routes
- Beginner's Cracks · Dinkum · Fingerprint
- Intl tip
- The best beginner-and-family climbing in the foothills - top-rope the easy cracks at Bucks Bar Dome. It's a real gorge with a hike-in approach and no services, so bring water. Spring and fall only; it bakes in summer.
The guide
Cosumnes River Gorge is the best all-levels climbing destination in the Sierra foothills - a public BLM canyon of clean, water-…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Cosumnes River Gorge — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.6524, -120.7066