Stoney Point

Beautiful place for hiking and rock climbing but unfortunately, there is trash and graffiti everywhere.

It’s amazing that a place like this exists in the middle of the city!
We parked along the street and walked down… had no problems.
It was fun to watch the rock climbers and explore the caves and boulders, although there are better spots for hiking if that’s solely what you are looking for.
Unfortunately and sadly, there is a ton of trash around. :(

Had no idea that a place like this existed in SoCal, so close to my gf’s place. My mind was blown when I heard that famous climbers like Royal Robbins and Bob Kamps started climbing here…
During Thanksgiving break, ended up here twice — once to scope out the area and do a bit of bouldering, and the second to do some sport climbing. Scrambling around the area is fun, but watch out for broken glass — there is A LOT of it.
There were usually people out there to chat with and share experiences/​crashpads/​chalk with, which was nice — climbers are superfriendly people. There is a lot to explore, and I have only seen a little bit, so looking forward to coming back after I have some more experience climbing.

Nice place for a walk, rock climbing, and/​or just to enjoy the nature. We had a great time today!

A great place to get your fix of stone with lots to do. This site includes 5 mile dirt hike, 2 mile rock hike, rock climbing.
Free parking roadside. Exit your car from the right door only to avoid passing cars. Bring water since there is no public water station for 3 miles.
The North side has some snakes and more bushy.
Roadside has places to chill and shady rocks.
East end is a flat sandy path lined trees.
After a hard hike there some good restaurants down the road.

I’ve been climbing indoors for several months and finally found an outdoor class at Stoney Point.
Each boulder and climb has their own name. I don’t know what they are, but there’s definitely a book somewhere with the names. Each one also has its own grade, but it’s all very subjective. We were lucky to have a super experienced climber with us to show the easiest routes.
Real rock is sandy and the holds, like you can imagine, are small. This is some hardcore stuff. Topping out? Scariest thing EVER! Just knowing that there’s a tiny pad below to stop me from dying but not from an injury was enough to deter me from topping out again that day.
Overall, I’d go back in a heartbeat! It’s time to conquer those fears!

My pup and I couldn’t even go 10 feet, the broken glass was so thick on the ground. Beautiful area totally trashed by humans. *sigh*

I must say I love this park because it is free great place to hike .The parking is crazy so I suggest coming ealry or late in the evening.

This is a great place for people who like rock climbing or bouldering or simply crawling around rocks in a somewhat challenging way.
If you’re planning to get to the top, expect to get your hands and knees super dusty. For me, I like the ruggedness so this doesn’t bother me. Plus, the view at the top is worth it!
The only downside is that there aren’t any clear trails or pathways so it’s a bit dangerous for kids and you could get lost for a bit. We had to search around a while for a safe way back down.
But, it’s possible and I had a lot of fun!

A word of caution: this is a ghetto area so be careful of parking your car there!
There were three cars parked and unoccupied that had their passenger side windows smashed and valuable personal property stolen. It’s unbelievable that the suspects had the nerve to commit crimes during day time and Topanga Canyon Blvd is a busy road with lots of cars driving by. I can’t believe that no one witnessed the crime to call the police! So if you must park there, park at your own risk because your car will get broken into — it doesn’t matter if you drive a luxury car or a junker car, they don’t discriminate!
Although there are some interesting rock formations this is a hang out place for day hikers, families, and good for nothing thugs who litter the place with broken glass bottles and graffiti. In my opinion there are probably better places to go hiking.

I highly, highly do not recommend coming to this location. I gave a one star because it won’t let me give no star. First off you can’t leave your car after you park it with out getto douche driving by howling rude obscenities at your female by standards at the location. It use to be a beautiful recreational location until the stupid getto gangs tag there stupid graffiti all over all the boulders. Fucking broken beer bottles all over the place, so don’t fall because your going to need a tetanus shot. Loud as fuck with in the square mile radius, all you hear is the nose pollution traffic driving by all around.
To top it off a whole row of cars including ours got there windows smashed in and stuff stolen out of it like my girls purse, which the stupid fuck later used her atm card to call there jail butt buddy. We called the local police department and waited almost an hour and they never showed up.
I repeat do not go here for any reason. For you and children’s safety this location is not safe you will get mugged and the police will not do anything about it.

Its wonderful. Go out there early morning take some snacks, in winter you do not need water but take 1 bottle per person and your hiking sense. There is no hard or easy about this Hiking point. you can start climbing from anywhere you want to reach at the top. Not preferable in rain or wet condition. Also take your sense of enjoyment with you. Very good point of hangout for California State University, Northridge students.

Hiking wise, I’d give this place about a ³⁄₅. but if you are there to climb, ⁴⁄₅. The first time I went here I made the mistake of bringing my dog with me, and acrobatic as she may be, I still had to lift her 60 pound ass up/​down certain stretches of rock. Please make sure you wear close-​toed shoes with a good grip, as the surface is made of sandstone and tends to crumble right under you in certain spots (especially after rain!). I’d give Stoney Point about a ³⁄₅ difficulty on the climbing scale. Good place for beginners to discover their strong points and find out what they need to improve.

If you are a rock climber this is a 5 star locale. If you are not a climber, hiker/​walker its a ²⁄₃ star place.
It is graffiti covered, glass strewn and poison oak & rattle snakes are everywhere in the summer. You also need to park your car near the Stoney Point sign if possible. Don’t leave any valuables in sight in your car. Unfortunately breakins are common.
If you are climber, please take out more trash than you bring in. Also REI and the Access Fund host Stoney Clean ups please volunteer.
Climbing at Stoney will get you strong fingers and excellent footwork skills. These skills are hard to develop at the gym. If you are a beginner, this is place to learn to use your feet. This was the climbing gym back in the day. There are many classics climbs at all levels. There is mostly bouldering with some classic topropes. Do bring extra water, there are no stores nearby. On a cool weekend you don’t really need a guidebook. It’s crowded and everyone is usually friendly.
No Climbing After It RAINS! The rock is Sandstone. Sandstone breaks when it gets wet. Wait a day or two before you climb.

My husband and I got such a great workout. Hours later our knees are still jelly.
I do really love exploring and climbing rocks plus this park is only a couple of minutes from my house but I don’t think I’ll come back here.
First of all when we got there we got a good whiff of the horse poop and this was early in the morning. Later when it was warmer, it got much worse.
Second, this whole place is really dusty. It is summertime right now but yeah… not a fan.
The third thing I really hate about this place is that the paths are covered in shards from broken bottles and there’s graffiti on the rocks. It’s sad. People can be such idiots.

I’ve been here a few times with my boyfriend. It’s a great place for various outdoor activities ranging from rock climbing to rock scrambling to hiking. We come here to top rope. There are a lot of routes of different grades to practice climbing techniques. You will have to set up for top rope, so it would be wise to bring some gear.
I’ve done some easy-​ish climbs and some that are very challenging. Some of the climbs are very pumpy, so upper body strength is probably good. There are some cracks to practice crack climbing as well. The climbs aren’t very long, thank goodness, but you still get a great workout.
Stoney Point is a good day trip, or even a few hours would suffice, if you’re short on time. I’ve been here both on a weekend and weekday. It wasn’t crowded either time. On the weekend, we did run into some hikers. On the weekday, we didn’t see anybody. It seemed like we had the park to ourselves.

Some tips: Park your car where it is visible from the park, break-​ins are common as the shattered glass often seen by the side of the road attests.
If you want to go climbing here and it has rained recently wait a day or more as sandstone soaks up water like a sponge and easily breaks when still wet. Go to Malibu or Echo Cliffs instead to get your outdoor climbing fix. On that note, there is good climbing here and a ton of history. Yvonne Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia cut his teeth at Stoney as did many of the ‘Stonemasters’ who went on to pioneer modern big wall climbing in Yosemite. Pick up Chris Owen’s guidebook to get the lowdown on the routes or chat up some of the friendly locals.
There are usually lots of folks here so if your looking for solitude this is not the place to go. Oh yeah, if your lucky some days you can see huge California Condors circling in the sky overhead having been recently reintroduced to the area. Stoney really is a special place, an oasis in the urban sprawl.

I was going to give Stoney Point 3.5 stars because of all the graffiti and shattered glass, but I’m going to round up because I had a lot of fun getting lost in the rocks anyway. I had originally planned to hike around the Garden of the Gods but I unknowingly walked right by it, and ended up at Stoney Point — a happy mistake if you ask me.
I saw some people bouldering, some with rock climbing gear, and the rest were regular hiking folk like myself. There was a surprising amount of children roaming about today and the view at the top was really nice. A little too close to the residential area for my liking, but I loved the various rock formations along the mountains.
There was what looked like a trail when we first started, but really, Stoney Point is about scrambling through the rocks and navigating your own way to the top. I thought going down was a little bit challenging as since there wasn’t one clearly marked trail, I couldn’t quite remember what route we took. Luckily, my friend was with me and he managed to get us back down. There was also a plaque remembering the train collision back in 2008 at the bottom.
Fun place to come out and climb rocks, but not the best place to hike if you’re trying to escape the busy city as there are still cars and houses around. Street parking only.

This is one of the more scenic parks in the area. You have a number of great options that you could take advantage of ranging from rock climbing, biking, to hiking. There are not many places you can say that about, and this is one of the rarities you have to take advantage of.
I enjoy best, when I bike, then hike, and after that drop the bike down and go for a great climb. After you reach the top, take a huge breath, enjoy the air, because you earned that cool air flowing through your lungs.
If you haven’t been, you have to try, whether its a bike ride, hike, straight up rock climb, or all the above.
As always enjoy life Unilocal peeps, for its a dash between your name.

I can’t get enough of this place when I am up in the L.A. area. We have some decent climbing in S.D. but Stoney has so many options for so many levels of climbers and the super textured sand stone makes you feel like spiderman. The routes are all really different too so you can get practice with lots of different techniques.
The one negative I can say about this place is that it gets a ton of traffic. Fortunately the area is so big that even when the parking is fairly full you can find plenty of areas without people.