l live in michigan and love to go places and climbing mountains but l need a new challenge hard mountains or rock climbing but if l decide to do rock climbing l need gear and to go to a school or something like that...but the problem is l already took a vaction to colorado this summer and can not go to far to climb.... so is there any hard mountains or rock climbing within say 200 miles of michigan? plz add links and if there is good places more then 200 miles still add

try climbing pictured rocks up in the up.

Since you said that you still want to know about places outside of the 200 mile limit, l will suggest you explore Nevada. l do not do much cliff climbing but l find some spectacular places in my trips.

l do not know what areas are close enough for you to consider, but if you are even thinking about driving far to climb an area you really should have a climbing route guide. My favorite guides are the Falcon Guide series:

http://falcon.com/

These will tell you how to get there and what routes are available - with difficulty, route description and what gear is needed.

Good Luck

Probably the best place closest to Michigan would be tne Niagara Escarpment (see 1st link), with hundreds of top rated climbs. Michigan is pretty lame as a place for serious rock climbing, but fortunately, Ontario, Ohio, & especially Pennsylvania all have extensive climbing areas. See 2nd link for where u can go.

ADDENDUM: l correct myself. Maybe u should have a look at ''The Ledges which is just west of Lansing, Michigan. l think l would be interested in this place myself if l lived in Michigan. See 3rd link.