Midwest Climbing Travel Guide

Midwest Climbing Travel Guide

• Midwest Overview
• Midwest Hotels
• Midwest Attractions
• Midwest Feature Articles
• Midwest Adventure Trips
• Midwest Vacation Rentals

Other Guides for Midwest

• Midwest Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
  • Biking
  • Caving and Canyoneering
  • Climbing
  • Hiking and Backpacking
  • Paddling
  • Skiing
  • Snow Sports
• Family Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fishing
  • Horses and Riding
  • Nature
  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Climbing Destinations In Midwest

• Custer State Park, SD
  (24 mi.)

Travel Guides In Midwest

• Chicago, IL (2.0 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Minneapolis, MN (6.0 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Cincinnati, OH (101 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Columbus, OH (169 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Indianapolis, IN (164 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Madison, WI (123 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• St. Louis, MO (12 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Badlands National Park, SD (74 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Black Hills, Badlands, and Mount Rushmore, SD (13 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Bloomington, IL (120 mi.)

United States Climbing Subregions

• Mid-Atlantic
• Midwest
• Mountain West
• Northeast
• Pacific Coast
• Southeast
• Southwest

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

On This Page:

• Top Destinations
• Feature Articles
• Practical Advice
• Gear
• Fitness
• Attractions
• Hotels

Midwest Climbing Destinations

• South Dakota

Top Climbing Destinations	Related Travel Guides	Find Hotels
Custer State Park		Hotels

Feature Articles

• Bragging Rights
  outside
  Be the hero of your Monday-morning meeting
• South Dakota's Black Hills: Tearing across the Bottom and Scaling to the Top
  
• Best Trips of 2001: Open-Air Classroom
  outside
  Open-Air Classroom
• North Shore of Lake Superior
  outside
  Minnesota
• October Active/Adventure Travel Guide
  

Practical Advice

• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
  outside
  To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.
• A Trekking Primer
  
• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things climbing.
• Women’s Climbing Gear Essentials
  outside
  
• Climbing Gear Essentials
  outside
  
• Ice Climbing
  outside
  Upgrade your frozen fun with the best new tools and apparel.

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
  outside
  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
  outside
  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Hot Flex
  outside
  Meet your secret muscles—and find out how these hidden assets can leverage your leap to peak performance
• Winter's Wonderland Workout
  outside
  Class Outside

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Attractions

Lubeznick Center for the Arts

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101 W. 2nd St.
Michigan City, Indiana 46360

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Art Institute of Chicago

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At Adams St
111 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois

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Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum

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1300 S. Lake Shore Dr
Chicago, Illinois

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Hotels

from: $249

Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile

540 North Michigan Avenue, (Driveway Entrance on 541 North Rush Street)
Chicago, IL 60611

Hotel Class:

• View More Photos

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4.5 out of 5
51 reviews

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FOUR SEASONS CHICAGO

120 E DELAWARE PLACE
CHICAGO, IL 60611

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Park Hyatt Chicago

800 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

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• Virtual Tour

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