Day Canyon Cragging Routes
20 climbing routes in Utah spanning 16 difficulty grades, offering bouldering, sport, and trad.
Photo: logopop, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- 20 routes
- 5.4 – 5.13
- Trad · Sport · Bouldering
Best time to visit Day Canyon Cragging Routes
Best months: March–May and October–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
42° / 22°
4 wet
Feb
50° / 29°
4 wet
Mar
62° / 37°
5 wet
Apr
70° / 44°
5 wet
May
80° / 53°
5 wet
Jun
93° / 63°
3 wet
Jul
99° / 70°
5 wet
Aug
96° / 68°
6 wet
Sep
87° / 58°
5 wet
Oct
72° / 44°
5 wet
Nov
56° / 33°
4 wet
Dec
42° / 24°
4 wet
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Arches Np Hqs, UT, 4 mi away at 4,093 ft. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Day Canyon Cragging Routes is a climbing area in Utah on Bureau of Land Management land within the Moab Field Office. It sits among a cluster of climbing and hiking destinations, with Day Canyon just 0.1 mile away and Wall Street South 0.2 mile off. The Day Canyon Trail starts 0.3 mile away, and the Priapism Pillar climbing area is 0.8 mile away. The area has 20 routes, mostly traditional, with one boulder and one sport route. Grades run from 5.4 up to 5.13, and the hardest route, Concepcion, was first ascended by Dean Potter's team. Among the trad routes, Bee Line at 5.10c was first climbed by Earl Wiggins and Katy Cassidy in 1988, and Aerobicide at 5.11c was done by Carl Diedrich and others in 1989. Spring and fall are the most comfortable times to visit. Typical averages from a nearby weather station show April highs around 70°F and October highs around 72°F, while July averages near 99°F. That station sits about 335 feet lower than the crag, so temperatures here run a little cooler.
Routes (20)
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