Salad Bar
Salad Bar is a 6-route sport climbing crag in Tennessee with routes across 6 difficulty grades.
- 6 routes
- 5.9 – 5.12a
- Sport
Best time to visit Salad Bar
Best months: April–June and August–November. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
44° / 26°
13 wet · 1 snow
Feb
49° / 30°
12 wet · 1 snow
Mar
57° / 37°
13 wet · 1 snow
Apr
67° / 45°
12 wet
May
74° / 54°
12 wet
Jun
80° / 61°
12 wet
Jul
83° / 65°
13 wet
Aug
83° / 64°
11 wet
Sep
78° / 58°
9 wet
Oct
68° / 47°
9 wet
Nov
57° / 37°
10 wet
Dec
48° / 30°
13 wet · 1 snow
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Monteagle, TN, 10.6 mi away at 1,850 ft. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Salad Bar is a sport climbing area in Tennessee's South Cumberland, a cluster of climbing spots that sit close together. It is a short walk from Buffet Wall, which lies about 0.1 mile away, and from Denny East, about 0.2 mile off. The area is best suited to climbers who want a day of sport climbing on a range of routes that run from about 5.9 to 5.12a. The six routes here are all sport climbs. Three Star Salad Bar is the easiest at 5.9, and Smoked Out is the hardest at 5.12a. The median grade is around 5.10c/d. The first ascents of these routes are listed, with names like Mike Womax for Three Star Salad Bar and John Dorough for Wish-bone. For a change of pace, the Fiery Gizzard Trail is about 1.9 miles away, and Big Fiery Gizzard Creek offers canoeing about 4 miles off. Raven Point Trail and the Little Sequatchie River are both within about 7 miles.
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