There are literally thousands of quality routes in these two canyons alone, as well as in the smaller more obscure canyons along the Wasatch front. These canyons alone offer years of exploring from the determined rock hound. American Fork has stacks upon stacks of hard routes. Hell Cave in AF probably has the greatest concentration of difficult routes in the country. A little farther south sits the isolated and beautiful Maple Canyon, and sport climbing on very solid conglomerate.
Salt Lake is also central to the other major climbing areas in the west.
The City of Rocks has hundreds of sport and traditional routes on quality granite. Massacre Rocks, situated on the Snake River has over 500 bolted sport lines on funky basalt. Such a huge variety of climbing experiences within such close distance to Salt Lake make this the ultimate place for rock climbing. American Fork Canyon. American Fork Canyon.