By Mike Reardon and Sean Cobourn

A Climbers Guide to 400 Routes Within Hickory Nut Gorge, NC

Asheville’s home crag! And what a crag it is. The bullet-hard gneiss forms perfect edges and perfect cracks alike. Add in eye-catching corners and juggy overhangs, with routes of all grades, and you’ve got one of the best trad crags in North Carolina, and maybe all of the South.