Dowdy Lake Areas Climbing

This digital Dowdy Lake Areas 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 Dowdy Lake Areas days smoother, safer, and more dialed.

The climbing areas around and north of Dowdy Lake encompass some of the most scattered and varied climbing in all of Red Feather. Huge open meadows and flat forests offset by massive granite domes and boulders scattered throughout. The potential for new routes and boulders is massive around Dowdy Lake.
CLIMBING HISTORY
The true history of the area is very unclear to say the least. Dowdy Lake is one of the most popular spots for fishing, camping, and tourism in all of Red Feather Lakes. So its easy to assume many wandering climbers have visited over the years. But... Show more

This digital Dowdy Lake Areas 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 Dowdy Lake Areas days smoother, safer, and more dialed. The climbing areas around and north of Dowdy Lake encompass some of the most scattered and varied climbing in all of Red Feather. Huge open meadows and flat forests offset by massive granite domes and boulders scattered throughout. The potential for new routes and boulders is massive around Dowdy Lake. CLIMBING HISTORY The true history of the area is very unclear to say the least. Dowdy Lake is one of the most popular spots for fishing, camping, and tourism in all of Red Feather Lakes. So its easy to assume many wandering climbers have visited over the years. But alas, the author was truly unable to lock down any climbing history before the late 90’s. It’s very possible climbers have visited the moderate trad climbs at Columbine Ridge, aka Dowdy Domes over the years. It seems that history has been lost but the author tried his best. The history we do know starts about late 90s/early 2000s with trad climbers Anthony Mason and Matt Fanning establishing tons of quality routes before both of them moved away. Next in line was the bouldering revolution that started sweeping Red Feather just after then. From 2000-2010 most of the bouldering in this chapter was developed. Climbers like Chuck Fryberger, Jeremy Bisher, Dave Ludders, Jamie Emerson, Brian Capps, Collin Kopitzke, Jason Nadeau, Jacob Ojile, Jason Tarry, Nick Perl, Matt Poiesz, the author and many others have spent time developing the boulders here. RULES & REGULATIONS Most of the Dowdy Lake Areas are managed by Arapahoe & Roosevelt National Forest Service with a small portion being under Colorado Dept. of Wildlife’s (DOW) care. Camping is available at the Dowdy Lake Campground. Mountain biking is allowed on most of the trails north of Dowdy Lake from July-Nov.