5 Mile Climbing

Last Updated: Sep, 2026
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Guide moderated by Scott Stoddard & Michael Beck

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This digital 5 Mile climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your 5 Mile days smoother, safer, and more dialed.

Great rock with a wide variety of problems right next to the road make 5 Mile one of the most popular areas in the canyon. Ever popular moderate offwidth, 'Big Mouth' can be found within a few feet of the road, with many quality slabs and juggy faces nearby. Plenty of quality intermediates like 'Surfboard', 'Green Face', 'Baldy' are all right there. Loads of advanced and elite variations cover the 'Mr. Smiley' face on the Split Boulder. 'Butt Trumpet' is a popular advanced line, and has several elite variations. The Golden zone to the east has several great advanced lines like 'Gold... Show more
This digital 5 Mile climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your 5 Mile days smoother, safer, and more dialed. Great rock with a wide variety of problems right next to the road make 5 Mile one of the most popular areas in the canyon. Ever popular moderate offwidth, 'Big Mouth' can be found within a few feet of the road, with many quality slabs and juggy faces nearby. Plenty of quality intermediates like 'Surfboard', 'Green Face', 'Baldy' are all right there. Loads of advanced and elite variations cover the 'Mr. Smiley' face on the Split Boulder. 'Butt Trumpet' is a popular advanced line, and has several elite variations. The Golden zone to the east has several great advanced lines like 'Golden' and 'Mr. T' as well as the elite highball 'Kill it in the Evening' and smaller moderates scattered through the surrounding woods. The newer Sentinels Zone is home to elite line 'Omega Man' and lots of highball moderates and intermediates and projects though the trail system is less developed. From the roadside parking, cross the road and the Split Boulders are right there

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