Of course I’m pretty sure that the actual top 10 climbing towns are all in California and Nevada, but here’s a list of runners-up in the September issue of Rock & Ice. To be fair, they did include South Lake Tahoe. So they’re not totally off.

New Paltz? Never heard of it. Favetteville? Nope. Man, I gotta get out to the East Coast more often I guess.

1. Chattanooga, Tennessee
2. Boise, Idaho
3. Ogden, Utah
4. South Lake Tahoe, California
5. Leavenworth, Washington
6. New Paltz, New York
7. Favetteville, West Virginia
8. Vancouver, British Columbia
9. Flagstaff, Arizona
10. Boone, North Carolina