Almscliff

GritstoneFaces StradboulderingMod to E5 / f7C

Yorkshire's most famous gritstone tor, a proud lump of rock on a hilltop between Leeds and Harrogate. Steep cracks, burly roofs and superb bouldering on rock like sandpaper; the traditional testing ground of Yorkshire hard men for over a century. Exposed to every wind, it dries almost as soon as the rain stops.

Almscliff, Gritstone — View Towards Almscliff Crag - geograph.org.uk - 4943715 · N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Conditions right now

Classics

Route	Grade
Frankland's Green Crack	VS 4c
Great Western	HVS 5a
Western Front	E3 6a
Birdlime Traverse	HVS 5b

Access & approach

Limited roadside parking near Crag Farm; respect the farmer's land and keep to the permissive path to the crag.

Always check the BMC Regional Access Database (RAD)for current restrictions and seasonal bird bans before visiting. County: North Yorkshire. View on OpenStreetMap ↗

Where this entry comes from

This is one of our editorial seed entries — written to get the conditions engine working, not sourced from a guidebook or an open database. Treat the details as a starting point and check them yourself.