Name | Grade | Type | Ascents | Rating | Sector | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Little Dutch Boy
|
400
6a
|
Sport | 2 | |||
Ugly Duckling
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Galloping Tapeworm
|
100
3
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Chinese Footbinding
|
250
4+
|
Partially bolted | 1 | |||
Squirm Germ
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Crack of an Uncertain Adventure #1
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Crack of an Uncertain Adventure #2
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Blue Diamonds and White Ice
|
900
7c
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Stem Gem - The Baptism of Fire
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Shaka
|
1100
8b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Purple Puppy Civil Rights Movement
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Not You Again
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Dream of White Horses
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Open Project
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Line 1
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Line 2
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Line 3
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Line 4
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Line 5
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Fade
|
100
3
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Ruby In the Dust
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Crack-a-Jack
|
500
6b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Bolts Are For Babies
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Bouncing Babies
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Umkhonto we Sizwe
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
A Splinter of the Minds Eye
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Pedestrian Crossing
|
450
6a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Foot Sack
|
200
4
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Hard Euro Candy
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Eurotech
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Eurovision
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Slap and Tickle
|
450
6a+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Illearth Stone
|
800
7b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Eyes of a Stranger
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Revelstones
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Big Yellow Flower
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Eddie and Co. Go Climbing
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Boys and Their Toys
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Strange Attractor
|
850
7b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Phase Space
|
800
7b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Pretty Girls Make Graves
|
400
6a
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Parklife
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Children of the Corn
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
In Two Minds
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Memory Lapse
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Children of a Lesser God
|
550
6b+
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Strong Loops and Wild Horses
|
700
7a
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Coming Up For Air
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Cobalt Blue
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Shadowland
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Orange Crush
|
400
6a
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Wonderland
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Your Granny's Tackie
|
250
4+
|
Traditional | 1 | |||
Chicken Run
|
800
7b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Dutch Courage
|
500
6b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Majola
|
850
7b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Hexed
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Boschendal
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Stairway to Heaven
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Josef's Birthday Party
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Rastus
|
250
4+
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Weasel
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Hannes' Rebirth
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Garden Route
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Climb Don't Walk
|
350
5+
|
DWS | 0 | |||
Smear Don't Climb
|
200
4
|
DWS | 1 | |||
Walk Don't Run
|
150
3+
|
DWS | 1 | |||
Carlito's Route
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Stopykes Revenge
|
450
6a+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Scorched Earth
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 2 | |||
Little Mouse
|
500
6b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Hang 'em High
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Outlaw Josey Wales
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Lichen or Not
|
250
4+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Oscotarach
|
150
3+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Gordon's Rock Scramble / Descent
|
100
3
|
Traditional | 1 | |||
Troll
|
250
4+
|
DWS | 0 | |||
Gecko
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Dyke
|
200
4
|
Sport | 2 | |||
Follow My Leader
|
200
4
|
DWS | 1 | |||
Little Duck
|
250
4+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Belly Button Brigade
|
200
4
|
Sport | 2 | |||
Friction Addiction
|
250
4+
|
Partially bolted | 1 | |||
Tarzan's Tussle
|
250
4+
|
DWS | 1 | |||
Kangaroo
|
150
3+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Enjoy it
|
400
6a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Mickey Mouse
|
100
3
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Mica
|
150
3+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Quartz
|
100
3
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Jovian Thunderbolts
|
500
6b
|
Sport | 2 | |||
Jovian Thunderbolts Directer
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
The Ring Route
|
600
6c
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Closed Project (Old Habits Die Hard)
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Sands of Time
|
300
5
|
Sport | 3 | |||
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Famous
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Sunset Warrior
|
500
6b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Sunset Warrior Direct
|
550
6b+
|
DWS | 0 | |||
Scoobie Doo Goes Surfing
|
700
7a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Long Walk to Freedom
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Crossing the Rubicon
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Black Power
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Lock 'n Load
|
450
6a+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Crystal Chronicles
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Prelude to the Wastelands
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Just Do It
|
500
6b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Relativity Puzzle
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Casualties of War
|
750
7a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Closed Project (Supernatural)
|
1150
8b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Avalanche
|
100
3
|
Traditional | 1 | |||
Private Pyle
|
150
3+
|
Traditional | 1 | |||
Closed Project
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Vietnam
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 2 | |||
Absence of Compassion
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Friction of Distance
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Turmoil of the Skin
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Cadeau
|
500
6b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Cannonfodder
|
450
6a+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Austrian Culinarium
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Via Barbara
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Via Michaela
|
350
5+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Via Daniela
|
300
5
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Skywalk
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Skywalk Variation
|
150
3+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Fun for Children
|
200
4
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Silent Lucidity
|
250
4+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Fat Luck
|
150
3+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Lightning Bolt Crack
|
150
3+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
A Good Day for a Mantle Shelf
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Hand Jam Entrance Exam
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Not of Long Duration
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Vertical Dimension of Extension
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Inspector
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Scream
|
1050
8a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Crank Prank
|
700
7a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Hidden Gem
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Unknown
|
350
5+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Unknown 2
|
400
6a
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Lily's Line
|
300
5
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Let it Bee
|
300
5
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Closed Project (Shoot 'em Up)
|
|
Partially bolted | 0 | |||
Cable's Walk (tourist amble and descent)
|
|
Traditional | 1 | |||
Project
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Don't Call Me Baby
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Hello of a Julia
|
500
6b
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Sunnyside Up
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Chemicals In the Grass
|
500
6b
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
All Or Nothing
|
750
7a+
|
DWS | 0 | |||
Jack the stripper
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Sashimi
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The sweetest thing
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Killer Tomatoes Eat France
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Achtung!
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Aardapple skillie
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Myotonia
|
650
6c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Fainting goat
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Open project
|
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Chronic breakfast skunk
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Skunk fu
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Fencesitter
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Mediocracy
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 1 | |||
Formulation
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 1 | |||
Fertile Myrtle
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
My hump
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Open project
|
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Holy Purple Cannibals Batman!
|
650
6c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Holy bouncing boilerplates Batman!
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Some lyric
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Crap!
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Abflug
|
850
7b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Rock steady
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Bebop
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Be steady
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Never trust a woman
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Ever
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Daddy’s Little Defect
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Wrinkled egg
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Wrinkled egg sit-start
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Night Shift
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Sky city
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Bond
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Turn it down a notch
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Reach for a scream
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Dork
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Geek
|
650
6c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Hot rod
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Kiaan
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Four-eyed funulator
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Silent foot technique
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Night light
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Bum crack
|
100
3
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Lever advantage
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Inner thigh cry
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Heavy metal
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
King joker
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Fun chicken
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Throw it on the ground
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Four stage rocket
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Shred the gnarl
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Hanging by a thread
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Eva Green
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Rock, paper, scissors
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Vesper
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 1 | |||
Cloudy With Some Drizzle
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Actic Lacid
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Shufflin"
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Hips Don’t Lie
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Funkmaster 3000
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Unagi
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
1L Brandy, 2L Coke, 3L Ford 7A+
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Duan Sit-start
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Duan
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Kwai
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 1 | |||
Good Things Happen When Bad People Go Bouldering
|
650
6c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Good things happen when bad people go bouldering sit-start
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Pacman
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Gripped
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Gripped sit-start
|
850
7b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Dry ice
|
850
7b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Get up, stand up
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Uxbridge Road
|
700
7a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Burn Your Underpants
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Sliced
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
No bull
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The boot
|
100
3
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Boot Dacious
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Boot Delicious
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Boots and all
|
550
6b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
If the Boot Fits
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Open project
|
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Open project
|
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Bored games
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Benson 'n Edges
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Self trepanation
|
650
6c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Run Like Hell
|
400
6a
|
Sport | 1 | |||
Fragile Existence
|
1000
8a
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Benson 'n Edges Sit-start
|
900
7c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Jugs and Josephs
|
950
7c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Tokoloshe
|
350
5+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Tjoekkertjie
|
400
6a
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Don't rock the boat
|
950
7c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Pick your spot
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Meet Your Maker
|
500
6b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Dachshund
|
300
5
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Neurotoxin
|
850
7b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Forgotten dreams
|
950
7c+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The pearl
|
800
7b
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The pearl sit-start
|
850
7b+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Monkey business
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Juseless
|
900
7c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Ancestral ground
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Too glued to be true
|
750
7a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The minion
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Bob is your uncle
|
200
4
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Three sticks of deceit
|
600
6c
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
Russel
|
450
6a+
|
Boulder | 0 | |||
The Green Hadogenes
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
More Patch Than Pants
|
450
6a+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Binary
|
550
6b+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Catharsis
|
900
7c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Thylacine
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Grey Reaper
|
600
6c
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
The Mole
|
950
7c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Voodoo Hoopoe
|
850
7b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Off Width Your Head
|
450
6a+
|
Traditional | 0 | |||
Closed Project
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Closed Project 2
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Closed Project 1
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Closed Project 2
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Finitude
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Resurrection
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
The Scorched Earth Direct
|
600
6c
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Dwarf Kiddi
|
650
6c+
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Open Project (Grade 29/30)
|
|
Sport | 0 | |||
Blackened
|
550
6b+
|
Sport | 0 |
The area is access sensitive!
🔴 RULES
A permit is required for driving through the gates on Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays. Gate closes in the evening and you have to be out - large fine!! Please be out before the closing time, we don't want to create any unnecessary tension between climbers and the nature reserve authorities.
🔴 ACCESS
Paarl Rocks Nature Reserve is open all year round. Entrance is free during the week, or if you choose to park at the pay booth and walk up. But please note that you will be fined if you are not out by closing time. No entry 1 hour before closure time.
🚪 Entrance:
Monday - Friday: Free
Saturday - Sunday & Public Holidays: R40 per vehicle plus R15 per person
🚪 Gate closure:
Summer: 1 October - 31 March 07h00 - 19h00
Winter: 21 April - 30 September 07h00 - 18h00
🚗 DRIVE
From Cape Town follow the N1 for about 60km, taking the Paarl (R45) off ramp on the left. Turn left onto Main Road and drive for about 1.5km until you see the Paarl Mountain Reserve sign on the right hand side of the road. Turn left here onto Jan Phillips Mountain Drive (becomes a dirt road) and continue up for 1.9km to a T-junction. Head right and drive for approximately 4km along the winding road taking the first left you reach (from the T-Junction, drive for 1.7km for the Gladde Rock Parking on the left). Follow this up for 500m to the pay booth.
Go left at the pay booth for to reach (600m) the Two Cents Slab Parking on the right. Continue on to reach (1.7km) the Lower Parking amongst a cluster of pine trees, and head on further up to reach (2.3km) the Upper Parking.
To reach the Rear Parking go right at the pay booth for 400m and take the Nante's Dam turn-off left. Drive for 2.4km and take the first left for 600m and then left again for 300m to reach the Rear Parking.
🅿️ PARKING
For The Illearth and Scream Boulders, Euro and Cannonfodder Walls use the Lower Parking.
For the Arbor Cave, Hidden by Day Wall, Parklife Wall, Cobalt Blue Wall and Wonderland Wall the Rear Parking should be used.
For the Gladde Rock and Two Cents Slab use the parking specific to those two (see DRIVE for details).
For the rest of the areas use the Upper Parking as the path around there is generally good and central to most climbs on Gordon's and Bretagne Rocks.
🚶♂️The Walk-ins and Descents are found in the DESCRIPTION.