Guided Rock Climbing Trips
Climb Classic Routes In Colorado, Utah, & Beyond
From Colorado’s Black Canyon to Moab’s desert towers and other classic climbing destinations throughout the United States and internationally, Skyward Mountaineering’s private, guided rock climbing trips are for climbers of all abilities. Whether you are learning to climb outdoors, developing your crack climbing or multipitch skills, looking for expert coaching, or pursuing a specific route on your tick list, we’ll help you find the right objective and provide the instruction and guidance to climb efficiently, confidently, and safely. Our AMGA Rock Guides bring decades of experience climbing and guiding on big walls, toprope crags, and classic multipitch routes.
Explore Our Rock Climbing Destinations:
Beginner to advanced rock climbing with toproping and multipitch routes:
Toproping and multipitch climbing from 5.2 to 5.13
No prerequisites needed for toprope rock climbing.
Multipitch rock climbing requires climbers have prerequisite climbing experience in a gym or outdoors, though there are also moderate routes
Full day (8 hours) is the standard, though longer multipitch routes may take longer (up to 16 hours for Grade IV and V routes)
Guided rock climbing available throughout Colorado, Moab, Red Rock, Washington and internationally
Expert-Led Rock Climbing Adventures for Every Ability & Ambition
Whether you are learning to rock climb outdoors for the first time or ticking off long, challenging multipitch routes, Skyward Mountaineering builds guides rock climbing trips around where your abilities are now and where you want to go. Our team of AMGA Rock Guides are passionate climbers and instructors with decades of experience climbing and guiding throughout Colorado, across the United States and at crags around the world. Each year our guides regularly take rock climbing trips to destinations such as Mexico, Canada, Argentina, France, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, and China, among many others.
For more than 30 years, Skyward has guided climbers on everything from single pitch crags and desert towers to long, multipitch routes and alpine rock. That experience gives our guides an intimate understanding of the terrain, allowing us to choose objectives that match your skills while creating opportunities to develop new ones. Whether you want to become a more efficient rock climber or climb a memorable classic route, we build the day around your goals. Every trip is private and customized to the climber.
Guided Rock Climbing in Colorado
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![A rock climbing guide in a yellow jacket is leading up a corner route in the Black Canyon. He is reaching down to his harness to place protection.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch rock climbing on Colorado’s tallest cliffs.
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![A rock climber in a yellow backpack and blue helmet is climbing the steep headwall on Otto's Route in Colorado National Monument.]()
Beginner to advanced toproping and multipitch rock climbing on desert towers and golden granite.
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![A rock climbing in a red helmet is laybacking a flake on a sport climb in Rifle Mountain Park.]()
Beginner to advanced single pitch rock climbing on the premier limestone sport climbing destination in the USA.
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![Clouds roll over the cliffs on Boulder's Flatirons with lush green grass in the foreground.]()
Beginner to advanced toproping and multipitch rock climbing at Colorado’s climbing mecca.
Guided Rock Climbing in Moab, Utah
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![A woman rock climbing in a purple helmet and white long sleeve shirt is climbing up the sandstone cliffs at the Ice Cream Parlor outside of Moab.]()
Beginner to advanced toprope and multipitch rock climbing. From crack climbing instruction at the crags in town to desert tower adventures
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![A rock climber is standing on the corkscrew summit of the route, Ancient Art.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch rock climbing on Ancient Art and the big wall routes in the Fisher Towers
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![Desert towers in Castle Valley rise above the mesa awash with sunrise alpenglow.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch rock climbing on Castleton Tower and other Moab desert towers
Guided Rock Climbing in Washington
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![A climber in a green t-shirt is reaching for the next handhold on the route Zig Zag at Mount Erie. Several lakes and the Pacific Ocean are visible in the background.]()
Beginner to intermediate toproping and multipitch rock climbing overlooking the San Juan Islands
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![A rock climber in a blue shirt and helmet with an orange backpack is reaching for the next hold on the steep arete of Mile High Club on Vega North Tower in Washington.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch alpine rock climbing in the Glacier Peak Wilderness
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![A climber in a white helmet is traversing across the exposed face of Ragged Edge on Vesper Peak. A sea of clouds rise above in the background.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch alpine rock climbing on the aesthetic Vesper Peak
Guided Rock Climbing at Destination Crags
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![A climber wearing a gray shirt and helmet is leading the route Epinephrine in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch rock climbing at one of the best areas in the USA for long, moderate trad routes
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![Two climbers walk through the entryway arch at El Potrero Chico with limestone cliffs rising in the background.]()
Intermediate to advanced long multipitch sport climbing on limestone fins in Northern Mexico
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![Limestone cliffs at the Dolomites rise above a rustic cottage at the base.]()
Intermediate to advanced multipitch alpine rock climbing in the Italian Dolomites
Why Choose Skyward Mountaineering For Rock Climbing?
Skyward Mountaineering offers guided rock climbing and trad and sport climbing courses throughout Colorado and Utah. Classic rock climbing areas around Boulder such as the Flatirons, Boulder Canyon and Eldorado Canyon provide easy access to fun cragging and multipitch rock climbing on the Front Range. Moab, Utah is home to world-class crack climbing at areas such as Wall Street and Indian Creek plus the multipitch desert towers in the Fisher Towers and Castle Valley. Our access to these incredible rock climbing venues combined with our decades of experience recreating and guiding on big cliffs provide the backbone for all of our guided rock climbing trips. Skyward’s rock climbing trips and instructional clinics are customized to provide climbers with the unique skillset necessary to climb efficiently and safely on challenging and adventurous rock climbing routes.