Montanejos sport climbing area

[9b]

90 km from Valencia,
20 km from the last train station (Caudiel)

 

You can reach Montanejos with the bus.

 

BUS Valencia-Montanejos: Avda. Menéndez Pidal, 9 Tel. [phone]).
The bus stops in Jerica (where there are rock crags), Benafer, Caudiel, Montan, Montanejos Gas station.
Monday-Friday: from Valencia 10:00*, 16:30. From Montanejos 06:30, 13:00* (* Only the Thursdays).
Sundays and festivals: from Valencia 20:00, from Montanejos 16:45.

 

Most important climbing area around Valencia, huge, ideal for sport climbing and multipitch routes too.
Every kind of climbing: overhanging, slabs, ...

Number of routes: 1.700, from 5a to 9a.
5a-6c+: 50%, 7a-7c+: 35%, 8: 5%.


Best period:

march to october. In summer You can choose the sectors in the shade and swim in hot springs.

South sectors in winter.

 

ACCOMODATION

- refugio, close to bus stop, 200 mt from the village, at the entrance of Barranco Maimona (main climbing area) in Carretera de Tales
Tel [phone] or 696 105 440,
[e-mail].
It offers a dormitory (12 euro with breakfast + 6 euros with dinner too) or a little (max 4) tents space (7 euros each).

In the village of Montanejos You can buy food and water.

 

Climbing areas:

• Barranco de Maimona (more than 400 routes).

 

Park at the entrance of Barranco itself and follow the path along the river.
There are many sectors, famous 200 meters big walls too.

• Estrecho del Mijares (more than 300 routes), from the village towards Puebla de Arenoso. The narrow pass is 2 kms from the village.

• La carretera de Montán, with 100 routes, in the first 3 kms of the route Montanejos-Montan, from Montanejos.

• other sectors: Campo de Tiro, Observatorio y Morrón.

• new sectors 46 kms from montanejos

 

 

Guidebooks:

1) by Ernesto Lopez : 38 euros
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2) another one cheaper (24 euros).

Close to Montanejos there is Jarica, mainly slabs.