This website is no longer current – please visit acansw.org.au for the latest from Australian Climbing Association (NSW). The contents of this page represents activity from 2019 to 2024 – information may not be up to date.
ACA(NSW) launches a new website in 2024!
Please visit https://www.acansw.org.au/ for the latest from the Australian Climbing Association NSW -and to see our amazing new logo. The website you are currently viewing is an archive of the organizations activities from 2019 to 2024 and may not be up to date with current news and events. Please update your links! Need to contact…
Unlocking Bombo Quarry – a new basalt climbing area? We need your help to make it happen.
Have you ever climbed on basalt columns? The majority of NSW climbers spend most of their time on sandstone- and opportunities for basalt climbing in Australia are limited. Although basalt is wide spread in Australia, columnar basalt, the best form to climb on, is not common in Australia. In NSW the finest columnar basalt, at…
ACANSW’s 5 year activity update
0th July 2024By ACA President NSW ACANSW Inc became incorporated in 2019. Our primary aim is to advocate and promote responsible and sustainable access to outdoor rock climbing areas in NSW, although we also contribute to access submissions and discussions for other climbing areas in Australia and overseas as required. Unlike states to the south…
Parking meters to be installed at Sublime Point – we need YOUR help to fight this decision
[Update 23 Jan 2024 – ACANSW has had two positive meetings with Blue Mountains City Council about the new Parking restrictions in the Blue Mountains. We have strongly advised the Council that the pricing structure of $12/hour or $$38/day is not viable for the rock climbing community. They have also received many messages from the…
Clean up your local crag day…
Sunday the 5th March is Clean Up Australia Day – a long running effort by volunteers to make our natural places nicer. Although there aren’t any official events being hosted by ACANSW at climbing areas this year – there is plenty that YOU and your friends can do to make our crags better on the…
ACANSW acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work, and climb.
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