Promontory
Klamath (Del Norte County) · near Klamath · North Coast
Rock Climbing
At a glance
- Skill level
- advanced
- Grade range
- 5.8 to 5.14c
- Best season
- Spring through fall; climbable in winter dry spells (some seepage)
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Rock Climbing detail
- Nickname
- Sport Climbing Over the Pacific
- Climb types
- sport · trad · top-rope
- Rock type
- Overhanging sandstone (sea cliff)
- Route count
- ~79 routes on the Main Wall plus satellite boulders
- Signature routes
- Tentacle · Great White · Black Beard's Tears
- Intl tip
- The North Coast's destination sport crag - steep, powerful sandstone over the ocean, best for climbers pulling 5.11 and up. Check tide tables before you go: several routes sit at wave level. Park at Wilson Creek beach and walk ~10 minutes north.
The guide
Promontory is the premier hard-sport crag of the entire North Coast - a wall of wave-sculpted, overhanging sandstone rising str…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Promontory — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.6066, -124.1048