Climbing Areas

MINNESOTA
Blue Mounds State Park
Barn Bluff, Red Wing
Interstate State Park (Taylors Falls)
Elys Peak
Palisade Head
Shovel Point
Sawmill Creek Dome
Section 13
Carlton Peak

WISCONSIN
Devils Lake State Park
Willow River State Park
Interstate State Park (Taylors Falls)

Mike Farris Home Page
Welcome. I've assembled information to make your Minnesota and Wisconsin climbing experience more enjoyable. If you have comments, additions, or corrections, please contact me at the email address above.

10/10/07. There is a new parking lot for Elys Peak. Click on the Elys Peak link to the left and get the map.

Here is the blog from my successful ascent of Gasherbrum II (8035m/26,362ft) summer 2006, and here's the photo gallery Thanks, Mike

Need guidebooks?


Retail customers should should visit their local outdoor shop. If they don't have it, try the Globe Pequot Press retail web page .

Dealer enquiries should go to G-P's vendor info site.

 Proceeds from this guide help support these organizations:

American Alpine Club
Access Fund
Minnesota Climbers Association

Sierra Club
The Nature Conservancy
The Minnesota Native Plant Society

The Cannon River Watershed Partnership

River Bend Nature Center
Click on the links to the left for some additional updated information, relevant links, and any other trivia that I've come up with.
SUMMER 2006 EVENTS
  • Willow River Clean-Up, TBA: sometime in July
  • North Shore Adopt A Crag Day, Sunday, September 10

GUIDEBOOK UPDATES
Here are two update files with corrections to the guidebook. The information in these updates is also posted on the individual climbing area web pages.
2002 Update #1, in PDF format. Last updated 7/7/02. Includes the closed routes at Taylors Falls.
2000-2001 Update, in PDF format. Last updated 4/30/01.

MORE INFORMATION
Information from the 2006 Climber Forum held at Midwest Mountaineering on April 30, in PDF format. I've added this to the individual crag pages as well.

Here are some general links that might lead you to more useful information. But BE CAREFUL--unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation spread around via the Internet.

Minnesota Climbers Assocation
Wisconsin Outdoor Access
Climbingcentral.com is a regional electronic forum.
Minnesotaclimbing.com is an electronic forum for MN climbers that is back online.
Climbingdevilslake.com NOW MOUNTAINPROJECT.COM.
Mike Endrizzi's Red Wing Rebolted Route Page