Southeast Climbing Travel Guide

Southeast Climbing Travel Guide

• Southeast Overview
• Southeast Hotels
• Southeast Attractions
• Southeast Feature Articles
• Southeast Adventure Trips

Other Guides for Southeast

• Southeast Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
  • Aerial Sports
  • Biking
  • Caving and Canyoneering
  • Climbing
  • Hiking and Backpacking
  • Paddling
• Beach Guide
  • Kiteboarding
  • Sailing
  • Scuba Diving
  • Snorkeling
  • Surfing
• Family Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fishing
  • Horses and Riding
  • Nature
  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Climbing Destinations In Southeast

• Daniel Boone National Forest, KY
  

Travel Guides In Southeast

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (49 mi.)
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Orlando, FL (124 mi.)
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Myrtle Beach, SC (87 mi.)
  • Beach Guide
  • Family Guide
• Hilton Head Island, SC (142 mi.)
  • Beach Guide
  • Family Guide
• Miami, FL (5.3 mi.)
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
• Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, FL (0.7 mi.)
  • Family Guide
• Gulf Shores, AL (143 mi.)
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Atlanta, GA (0.7 mi.)
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
• Fort Lauderdale, FL (21 mi.)
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Family Guide
• Fort Myers, Sanibel and Captiva, FL (99 mi.)
  • Family Guide

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

Southeast Climbing Destinations

• Kentucky

Top Climbing Destinations	Related Travel Guides	Find Hotels
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Feature Articles

• Aces High
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  THE IDEA: Make one of the world's greatest Everest guides face his fear of heights. THE PLAN: Send him 3,000 feet up El Capitan with Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Ivo Ninov. THE RESULT: Panic attacks, cold sweats, and one order of Depends.
• Where the Wild Things Go
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  Climb: LOOK UP: You've got your work cut out for you. Now LOOK AROUND YOU: You're in the perfect camp for the vertically inclined.
• GORP - Linville Gorge Wilderness Area
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• GORP - Little River Canyon National Preserve - Alabama
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• Best Trips of 2001: Open-Air Classroom
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  Open-Air Classroom

Practical Advice

• What Andrew McLean, Ski Mountaineer, Brings
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  McLean, 47, is one of the world's most accomplished backcountry skiers, with first descents on every continent—and more than 100 total. This spring, he's off to Greenland for a few more. Here's what he's packing.
• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
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  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

• Ice Climbing Gear Essentials
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  The key to staying warm and stuck to the ice? The right stuff.
• What Andrew McLean, Ski Mountaineer, Brings
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  McLean, 47, is one of the world's most accomplished backcountry skiers, with first descents on every continent—and more than 100 total. This spring, he's off to Greenland for a few more. Here's what he's packing.
• 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
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Fitness

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

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Attractions

Skyline Drive

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Description: The Skyline Drive runs 105 miles north and south along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in... Read More

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Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge

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12295 State Highway 180
Gulf Shores, Alabama 36542

Description: The Bon Secour NWR contains 7,000 acres of wildlife habitat for migratory birds, nesting sea... Read More

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Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area

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Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area, part of Ozark National Forest, lives up to is name and then some. ... Read More

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Hotels

Gulf State Park Cabins

20115 State Highway 135
Gulf Shores, AL 36542 Map

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Hilton Garden Inn Orange Beach Beachfront

23092 Perdido Beach Boulevard
Orange Beach, AL 36561 Map

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4.3 out of 5
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Youngs by the Sea

401 East Beach Blvd.
Gulf Shores, AL 36542 Map

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