Smith Rock

Climbers can cut their teeth on easy to mod­er­ate mul­ti-pitch, and sin­gle-pitch climbs, or try some of the hard­er sport climb­ing and crack routes Smith State Park in Ore­gon has to offer. There is lit­er­al­ly a life­time worth of climb­ing at Smith! Smith Rock State Park has climbs appro­pri­ate for all lev­els of climber, all of which are eas­i­ly accessed via a short walk from the camp­ground, or the near­by towns of Bend, Red­mond, or Ter­re­bonne. Easy access, great weath­er, hun­dreds of routes to chose from, and inter­est­ing, sol­id rock make this a world calss des­ti­na­tion for climbers.

Smith Rock owes its unique shape, and amaz­ing climb­ing to a con­ver­gence of geo­log­i­cal phe­nom­e­na. The rugged Basalt, and Tuff for­ma­tions are the result of depo­si­tion from a series of vol­canic erup­tions that were sub­se­quent­ly cut into their present shapes by the Crooked Riv­er that still flows through Smith Rock State Park today. This is all to say that the eons have left Smith Rock with a pletho­ra of nubs, cracks, hue­cos, and edges that beck­on to be climbed.