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NO new routes can be established at Obed.

Below is a growing collection of information about climbing areas, routes and bouldering problems in and around Obed River Park near Crossville and Wartburg, Tennessee.

If you are looking for bouldering check out the Lilly Boulder Field.

Please read and understand the Obed Wild & Scenic River Climbing Management Plan. Help to keep this pubic climbing area open, be mindful of vegetation, climbers are causing a visible impact on both the forest floor and the rock faces, park in designated areas ONLY, use designated trails, no new routes, pack out what you pack in, leave no trace.

Below is a list of the different climbing areas in and around Obed River and where to park to access the climbing area. For directions to parking areas check the Obed River Climbing Page.

Obed Climbing Areas	Parking Area
Balcony
Broomwall - Rasputin Ledge
Image wall
Lilly Boulder Field	Lilly Bluff Parking Area
Lilly Bluff	Lilly Bridge or Lilly Bluff
Little Clear
Middle Clear Creek
North Clear Creek - Scorpion W	Main Climbing Parking
North Clear Creek - The Inner	Main Climbing Parking
Pocket Wall
Solstice Cave
South Clear
Stephen King Library	Main Climbing Parking
Tierrany
Y12	Lilly Bluff Parking Area

Below is a selection of favorite climbing routes in and around Obed Wild & Scenic River.

Climbing Routes	Area	Rating
1554	Little Clear	5.12c
32 feet per second squared	Little Clear	5.5
40oz. to Freedom	South Clear	5.12c
Action Indirect	Tierrany	5.11c
Addiction to Friction	South Clear	5.12d

Alchemy	South Clear	5.11a
Alien

All Business	Little Clear	5.12b
Altered States	Broomwall - Rasputin Ledge	5.12a

Arachnophobia	N. Clear Creek - Scorpion W	5.10d


Backlash	Image wall	5.10a
Barbed Wire and Lingire	Y12

Best Seat In The House	South Clear	5.9
Body Count
Body Hammer
Boo Yaa	South Clear	5.12c
Boogie Man

Borderline
Born on the 4th of July	Y12	5.13a

Brothers in Arms	South Clear	5.10b

Canyon Man
Centerstone	Little Clear	5.13a
Cheap Seats	South Clear	5.10a
Christine	Stephen King Library	5.10a


Clyde the Mega Dude

Coco Puffs	South Clear	5.7
Comic Relief Direct	Image wall	5.8
Comic Relief Left	Image wall	5.9

Cornerstone	Little Clear	5.12c

Dark Half, The	Stephen King Library	5.13a

Dead Air	Tierrany	5.11d
Deathblow		5.11b


Deliverance	Middle Clear Creek	5.11a

Distance Man		5.12a


Double Feature	The Balcony	5.10c
Double Trouble	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.10a
Druelin' Banjos	Y12
Dude Climbs Like a Lady	Solstice Cave	5.6
Dutch Boy	Tierrany	5.10b

Egyptian
Electric Sky
Equinox	South Clear	5.12b


Fat Lady Sings	The Balcony	5.9
Fit By Fall	Little Clear	5.12b
Gangsta

General Admission	The Balcony	5.11a
Good to the Last Pop	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.12c
Gunslinger	Stephen King Library	5.11d
Heavy Fuel	South Clear	5.11c

Herbivore	Y12
Homeboy	Middle Clear Creek	5.12a
Hooker

Huecool Junior	Tierrany	5.10d
Huecool Senior	Tierrany	5.13a
Industry Standard	Little Clear	5.12b
Indecent Exposure	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.11b

Inner Circle	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.12a
It	Stephen King Library	5.10a
Ivy league
Journey
Jungle Jane	Tierrany	5.12a
Keeper of the Flame	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.12a
La Familia

Lifestyles of the Ripped and Heinous	Pocket Wall	5.11b

Little Duke	Y12

Lounge Lizard
Mad Cow	South Clear	5.12b

Maximum Overdrive	Stephen King Library	5.13a
Maximum Overdrive Face	Stephen King Library	5.12b
Misery	Stephen King Library	5.13b
Miss Thang

Natural, The	Middle Clear Creek	5.13a
Nose Bleed Section	The Balcony	5.10a
Odyssey

Organized Crime
Osiris

Pale Face	The Balcony	5.11a
Paraphernalia

Pet Sematary	Stephen King Library	5.11a

Pick Pocket	Pocket Wall	5.12b
Pit	Image wall	5.11b
Plasma Alliance	Tierrany	5.12c

Pocketeer, The	Pocket Wall	5.11b

Probe, The	Tierrany	5.12c
Prophet	Image wall	5.11b

Pump	Solstice Cave	5.10b

Purple People Eater
Rage	South Clear	5.12c
Rail, The	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.11d
Rasputin D Scalliwag	Broomwall - Rasputin Ledge	5.13b
Revenge of the Whippersnapper	South Clear	5.12d
Rocking Chair
Ronnie Ray Gun	Tierrany	5.12d
Roughin	Solstice Cave	5.13c
Rover B. Dog	Tierrany	5.10a
Rules of Engagement	Little Clear	5.12d
Rumors of War

Salems Lot	Stephen King Library	5.11c
Scalded Dog	Broomwall - Rasputin Ledge	5.12b

Scary Fingers	Middle Clear Creek	5.11b

Shadowhawk	Image wall	5.9

Shining, The	Stephen King Library	5.12b
Shroom	Middle Clear Creek	5.11b
Sky Hook	The Balcony	5.8
Soho the happy dog

Solitary Movement	Little Clear	5.13a
Solstice	Solstice Cave	5.12a

Spawn	Image wall	5.10a

Spider up my crack
Spooky Moon	Y12

Squeeze Job	Stephen King Library	5.12a

Stand, The	Stephen King Library	5.12d
Standard Issue	Little Clear	5.11d

St. of Aushwitz	Little Clear	5.11c
Stagefright	The Balcony	5.11b
Super Ego	Solstice Cave	5.9
Superfinal	Image wall	5.12b
Tales of the Sperm	Tierrany	5.11b

Tang
Tapeworm	Y12
Thinner	Stephen King Library	5.7
Tickets for the Show	The Balcony	5.8

Ticks Are For Kids
Tierrany	Tierrany	5.12a

Tool	South Clear	5.11c
Tonys Crack	N. Clear Creek - The Inner	5.11c

Trick Photography
Twilight	Solstice Cave	5.13c
Undertow	South Clear	5.12a

Valentine	South Clear	5.13c
Violator	Image wall	5.11b?



Warm Up	N. Clear Creek - Scorpion W	5.10a
Warmup	Broomwall - Rasputin Ledge	5.10a
Whatserface	Tierrany	5.13a
Wheatward Bound
Whipper snapper
World between your legs, The		5.12a
Yazuka

Climbing Related Links & Resources:
● Rock Climbing at Sunset Chattanooga
● Black Mountain Climbing
● Bee Rock, Tennessee - Rock Climbing
● Obed River Plant Community Structure and Abiotic Conditions
● Wild & Scenic Rivers Act of 1968
● Rivers of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act
● Lilly Bouldering Area
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