Mount Shasta City Area Crags
Mt Shasta City / Dunsmuir (Siskiyou County) · near Mount Shasta · Shasta Cascade
Rock Climbing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Grade range
- 5.7 to 5.11a
- Best season
- Late spring through fall
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Rock Climbing detail
- Climb types
- sport · trad · top-rope · bouldering
- Rock type
- Volcanic (andesite/basalt) & granite
- Route count
- ~90 routes/problems across several small crags
- Signature routes
- Cantara Loop · Ney Springs · Sand Flat Boulders
- Intl tip
- Think of it as one 'Shasta City area' node of small local crags rather than a single destination - great rest-day cragging while you're up for Mt Shasta or Castle Crags. Cantara Loop for sport, Sand Flat for boulders. Public forest access, short approaches.
The guide
The Mount Shasta City area crags are where locals actually clip bolts and pull on boulders in the shadow of the big peak - a sc…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mount Shasta City Area Crags — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.22, -122.28