Maple Canyon
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From I-15. Take I-15 North from St. George/Cedar City or I-15 South from Salt Lake City. At I-15 Exit 225 in Nephi, follow State Road 132 East to Fountain Green (14 miles). Take a right on 400 South in Fountain Green. Follow signs to Maple Canyon as described below.
From I-70 going west from Grand Junction. Take US Highway 6/191 west of Green River to Price. Continue north on Highway 6 after Helper where 191 will split near the coal plant. Travel about 52 miles past Price to the Junction of 6 and US Highway 89. Drive south through Birdseye and Fairview to Mt. Pleasant (37 miles). Take State Road 116 to Moroni. Then, take State Road 132 to Fountain Green (8 miles). Turn Left on 400 South in Fountain Green. Follow signs to Maple Canyon as described below.
From I-70 near Richfield and Salina. Exit at Salina on to US 89 north. Follow 89 through Manti and Ephraim to Moroni. Turn left on Highway 132. Head west until you reach 400 South in Fountain Green. Turn left on 400 South in Fountain Green. Follow signs to Maple Canyon as described below.
Follow signs to Maple Canyon. After 0.3 miles 400 South will arc to the left as you leave town. Follow this road to the small town of Freedom (6 miles). Turn right on Freedom Road and after 0.4 miles take the next right to Maple Canyon. This road will turn into a dirt road after a mile and a half, go about 0.1 miles down the dirt road and set your odometer at the “Motorized Vehicle Travel Restricted to Designated Roads and Trails” sign.
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Camping in Maple Canyon can be quite fun since all the campsites are separated along a short stretch of dirt road and they each have nice trees for shade, a picnic table, a fire pit, individual parking, and close access to a restroom. They are in close proximity to all the climbing areas and have some fun bouldering near them as well. There is no potable water at any of the campsites or in Maple Canyon; you must bring your own. You will also need to pack out any garbage you accumulate during your stay at Maple and throw it away in the nearest dumpster. Please take with you any trash you find that someone else forgot to pack out, and whatever you do, don’t throw garbage in the restroom toilets as they are extremely hard to clean out.
Chopping trees or shrubs for firewood is prohibited, so bring your own wood for that too. The nearest city for these amenities is Fountain Green, which is about 7 miles from the campground; if it’s Sunday you’ll have to go all the way to Nephi or Ephraim.
There are 14 family-standard campsites that fit about four climbers comfortably and one group campsite that allows forty people. (This is going to be expanded in the coming years with more campsites.) As of this writing the family-standard campsites are $10 a night and the group campsite is $48 a night. You can reserve any of the campsites from May 1st to October 1st. You can book them in advance at https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232413.
Camping at Maple fills up fast; every campsite can be full when you get there. If they are all full, there is dispersed camping before and after the campgrounds. Dispersed camping means the sites have no table, sometimes have a fire pit, but most sites are just a pullout and a place where someone has camped before. Look for a place that’s been used before; such places are along the road on both sides. If you set up camp at one of these places you’ll need to go to the pay station, fill out a form describing your location and listing your license plate number and pay the $8 camping fee. Please pay the fees and keep the campsites clean—so far the forest service has been impressed with climbers and think we are a responsible group of people. All fees that are paid to the forest service stay in Maple Canyon; they help pay for the toilets and canyon improvements.
If you have a high-clearance vehicle, you can drive about 1.5 miles up the road from the campground to free camping in the alpine meadows area known as Dutchman Flat. It’s absolutely stunning in beauty and serenity. It’s a little colder up there with an elevation of just over 7000 feet, but the stunning scenery makes up for it. It’s also quite a bit closer to The Pipe Dream Cave if you plan on just climbing there.
As a side note, when the crew from Provo were first putting up routes in Maple there was never anyone camping on the weekdays and only once in a while was anyone camping on the weekends. One weekend some locals brought a big screen TV and a generator and played all three of the Alien movies during the night with the volume high enough to drown out the sound of the gas generator. Another evening there was a huge drum circle with about thirty naked drummers banging away on their drums for hours. Needless to say, we didn’t get much sleep on either of those two nights and our climbing suffered! The moral of these stories is: be quiet at night and be courteous to the other campers while you’re here.
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5 Classic 10.a’s
1. Gunsmoke
2. Flak Jacket
3. Kingpin
4. The Scarecrow
5. Meet the Buddha
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5 Classic 10.b’s
1. 245 North
2. Big Kahuna
3. Blunt Arete
4. Blackberry
5. Grease & Grime
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5 Classic 10.c’s
1. King Kobble
2. Kissing and Angle
3. The Angle’s Share
4. Eagle’s Nest
5. Mini Meditation
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5 Classic 10.d’s
1. Zen Master
2. Crime Scene
3. The Edge of Glory
4. Dang Awesome
5. Kama Sutra Awesome
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5 Classic 11.a’s
1. The Black Waterfall
2. Taking the Bullet
3. Rainmaker
4. Pump Action Hero
5. Minima
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5 Classic 11.b’s
1. Oneida
2. Streak
3. The Angry Inch
4. Heathen
5. Godfrees
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5 Classic 11.c’s
1. The Hitchhiker
2. Back to Zero
3. Groundwork
4. Dry Spunk
5. Lip Venom
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5 Classic 11.d’s
1. One Percent
2. Zoaster Toaster
3. Pipeline
4. Amenema
5. Lunchables
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5 Classic 12.a’s
1. 49
2. Cobble Almighty
3. Watermelon Sugar
4. Tomacco
5. Dry Times
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5 Classic 12.b’s
1. Power Trip
2. Functional Idiot
3. Beaten Into Submission
4. Point Blank
5. Towing Jehovah
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5 Classic 12.c’s
1. Orgasmo
2. Space Lord
3. Deliverance
4. Cobble in the Sky
5. Jackknifed
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5 Classic 12.d’s
1. Ribonucleic Convulsion
2. Deceptacon
3. Jesus Freak
4. Super Spunk
5. Welcome Back Cobble
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5 Classic 13.a’s
1. Sprout
2. Loser
3. 911
4. Shoot Em' Up
5. Diggler
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5 Classic 13.b’s
1. La Confianza
2. Special Forces
3. Rodeo Clown
4. Death From Above
5. Vote with a Bullet
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5 Classic 13.c’s
1. Toxic Turkey
3. Hammerhead
4. Don't Mess With Texas
5. Cobble Killer
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5 Classic 13.d’s
1. Wyoming Sheep Shagger
2. Millenium
3. SST
4. Whole Shoot
5. Ego Boost
A free topo to one of my favorite walls in Maple…The Orangutan Wall!!!