Private Pizza Wall
Private Pizza Wall in Utah has 9 climbing routes across 5 grades.
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- 9 routes
- 5.7 – 5.10
- Trad · Sport
Best time to visit Private Pizza Wall
Best months: April–June and September–October. 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
40° / 10°
5 wet · 2 snow
Feb
47° / 16°
4 wet · 2 snow
Mar
58° / 25°
4 wet · 1 snow
Apr
66° / 31°
4 wet
May
75° / 40°
5 wet
Jun
85° / 47°
4 wet
Jul
91° / 54°
5 wet
Aug
89° / 52°
7 wet
Sep
81° / 43°
6 wet
Oct
68° / 32°
5 wet
Nov
53° / 20°
4 wet · 1 snow
Dec
41° / 11°
4 wet · 2 snow
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Castle Dale, UT, 19.7 mi away at 5,629 ft. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Private Pizza Wall is a climbing area on Bureau of Land Management land in the Price Field Office of Utah, about 19.7 miles from the Castle Dale weather station. The land is managed by the BLM, and the wall sits among several other climbing areas in the region. The wall has nine routes, with eight of them trad and one, Party Pizza, a sport route. The grades run from 5.7 to 5.10, with Private Pizza at 5.9 and Black Blood at 5.10. The wall's namesake, Private Pizza, was first climbed by Dave Anderson and Will Gilmer in 1990. Spring and fall are the most comfortable times to visit. Typical averages from the Castle Dale station show May highs around 75°F and October highs around 68°F, while July averages about 91°F. Pine Canyon is half a mile away, and Lower Buckhorn and Vertical Smile Wall are each about 0.7 miles off. For an overnight stay, San Rafael Swinging Bridge Campground is about 1.9 miles away.
Routes (9)
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