Closed to Climbing
In 2010 the Newport City
Council banned rock climbing here. The quarry is on Hazard Road off
Ruggles Avenue almost directly across from Rogers High School. A few
hundred feet on your right is a steel gate and a sign for Ballard Park.
Park here and follow the path to the quarry. Someone had installed some
new 3/8" bolts and hangers above a couple of climbs but they were
chopped.
The routes here are at the center of the cliff where it is
approximately 35 feet in height and slightly overhanging. The rock is
quartzite with some loose rock and broken glass. The local test piece
(5.10ish) follows the bolt line and traverses left under an overhang.
Photo below.