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Rock Climbing in North Carolina

Fox Mountain Guides is the Southeast's only AMGA Accredited Guide Service. We employ the highest trained AMGA Certified Rock Climbing Guides in the Southeastern USA offering all types of Rock Climbing here in North Carolina. We offer daily rock climbing trips 12 months of the year for first time climbers through to climbing instructor training for aspirant rock guides.

We offer a complete guiding service for all groups, family trips and reunions, Birthday parties, School Trips, Church Group excursions. We offer Boy and Girl Scout rock climbing and rappelling trips as part of the Climbing Merit Badges and Patches or as part of an extended trip anywhere in North Carolina. Fox Mountain Guides is based at Looking Glass Rock and do the majority of trips in the surrounding area. We can also guide you anywhere in North Carolina, here are a few areas we guide in:

North Carolina areas we guide in:

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Looking Glass, Cedar Rock, Whitesides (Near Brevard, 30 mins Southwest of Asheville)

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Linville Gorge Areas: Table Rock, Hawksbill, Amphitheater, NC Wall (30 mins Southwest of Boone)

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Shortoff Mountain (1 hour East of Asheville)

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Crowders Mountain (Near Gastonia, 30 mins West of Charlotte)

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Chimney Rock Park (Chimney Rock/Lake Lure, 40 mins Southeast of Asheville)

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Rumbling Bald (Meeting at Chimney Rock Park, 40 mins Southeast of Asheville)

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Moore's Wall (Hanging Rock State Park) (30 mins North of Winston-Salem)

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Pilot Mountain (30 mins North of Winston-Salem)

Out of state areas we hold permits for or have agreements with local guide services:

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Red River Gorge, KY

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New River Gorge, WV

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Red Rocks, NV

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Joshua Tree NP, CA

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New Hampshire areas

Don't see an area here that you wish to climb? Give us a call and we will arrange to guide you at your area!

Don't just take our word for it, listen to some of our satisfied clients!

First Time/Novice Trips 'Top Rope Climbing'

Our highly trained and AMGA Certified Instructors have years of experience of introducing people to the world of rock climbing here in North Carolina and across the Southeast. Get together a group of friends and experience this amazing sport for the first time! We offer daily trips to climbing areas in Pisgah National Forest and Crowders Mountain State Park, other areas are available on request. A day of 'top rope climbing' would consist of accomplishing climbs that you feel comfortable doing and learning about climbing safety, belaying and rappelling, equipment, climbing ethics, and wilderness Leave No trace skills. We also offer 2 hour beginner lessons at Chimney Rock Park!

All equipment is provided. Click here for booking information and rates.

Click here to check out our photo gallery of Top Rope Climbing!

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Email or call 1-888-284-8433 with questions or to reserve a Guide

Intermediate/Advanced Trips 'Multipitch Rock Guiding'

Whether your aspirations are to climb "Second Coming" (5.7, 2 pitches) on the South Face of Looking Glass or the "Original Route" (5.11a, 10 pitches) on Whitesides, we have the appropriately trained and certified AMGA Rock Instructors and Rock Guides for your trip. Our guides are the highest trained and certified in the Southeast, and all of our guides have many years of experience climbing all over the USA and extensively in areas across the Southeast Region. You can be sure you will be hiring the best guide possible!

All guiding days are "one on one" unless you organize to bring friends or family with you. Multipitch guiding has a limit of 3 participants.

Please email or call us with questions on our guiding program. 

Click here for booking information and rates.

Click here to check out our photo gallery of Multipitch Climbing!

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Email or call 1-888-284-8433 with questions or to reserve a Guide

Advanced Trips 'Guided Single and Multi Day Aid Climbs'

Fox Mountain Guides offers guiding on all of the Southeast aid climbs, whether you would like to do them in a single day, or spend the night on a portaledge and do the full value two day ascent! We have the only guides in the Southeast that are trained and certified to guide on the longer routes that are grade IV and V in length, (AMGA Rock Guide).

So if your aspiration is to climb classics like The Glass Menagerie, Rowin's Route, or Invisible Airwaves give us a call!

Click here for booking information and rates.

Click here to check out our photo gallery of Aid Climbing!

Click here to book a guide online

Email or call 1-888-284-8433 with questions or to reserve a Guide

Don't just take our word for it, listen to some of our satisfied clients!

 

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Rock Climbing Guides, instruction and courses offered by the Southeast’s only AMGA Accredited Climbing School,

Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School North Carolina NC.