1 Overlook Buttress
1 Overlook Buttress in West Virginia has 5 routes with 4 difficulty grades, offering sport and trad climbing.
- 5 routes
- 5.6 – 5.12b
- Trad · Sport
Is 1 Overlook Buttress open right now?
No closures listed
The National Park Service lists no closures for New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
As of · Source: NPS · New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. Agencies don't list every closure — check before you go.
Best time to visit 1 Overlook Buttress
Best months: April–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° / 23°
Feb
46° / 25°
Mar
55° / 31°
Apr
68° / 40°
May
75° / 49°
Jun
81° / 58°
Jul
84° / 62°
Aug
83° / 61°
Sep
78° / 54°
Oct
68° / 43°
Nov
56° / 33°
Dec
46° / 27°
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Anstead Hawks Nest Sp, WV, 4.1 mi away at 1,296 ft. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
1 Overlook Buttress is a climbing area in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia, managed by the National Park Service. It sits among a cluster of climbing spots and trails, with Bridge Boulders and 2 Bridge Buttress just 0.1 mile away and the Bridge Buttress Extension Trail about 0.2 mile off. The area has five routes, four of which are trad and one a sport climb. Grades run from 5.6 to 5.12b, with the hardest being the sport route C.M.Q. (Chloe Madelyn Quinn). The trad routes include Gunky Heaven (5.6), Up to Disneyland (5.7) and Out to Lunch (5.8), and the Hall Effect (5.8), which has a two-part history. For timing, late spring and early fall are the most comfortable. Typical averages from a nearby weather station show May highs around 75°F and September highs around 78°F, with July peaking near 84°F. That station sits about 350 feet lower than the area, so temperatures here run a little cooler. Nearby, the Burnwood Trail is about half a mile away, and the 3 Maranatha Area is about 0.2 mile off. Paddlers can find Manns Creek roughly 8.5 miles away.
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