Colorado cliff jumping spots
Colorado has famous jumps and a lot of closed ones. Baker's Bridge outside Durango sits on private land with jumping prohibited, the Jump Rock at Green Mountain Reservoir is under a Forest Service closure order after a fatal jump, and Larimer County bans it across Horsetooth — so those are deliberately not on this map. What is here is the granite on Fourmile Creek, the Roaring Fork on Independence Pass, and the quieter pools in the San Juans, all of them short-season snowmelt where the current matters more than the height.
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80 ftBlack Hole (Two Buttes)
Expert Unverified 10 · 80 ft Baca CountyA spring-fed pond in the rock basin directly below Two Buttes Dam on the eastern plains, 30-40 feet deep with ledges from 10 feet up to the roughly 80-foot "Granddaddy". The…
80 ftCottonwood Cove cliffs (Lake Pueblo)
Expert Unverified 40 · 80 ft Pueblo CountyLimestone cliffs on the north shore of Pueblo Reservoir with 40-foot ledges and an 80-foot top, reached by boat into Cottonwood Creek Cove. Jumping is banned park-wide and this…
80 ftGuffey Gorge (Paradise Cove)
Expert Unverified 20 · 45 · 80 ft Park CountyA granite slot on Fourmile Creek east of Guffey, an hour from Colorado Springs, where the creek pools up under walls that run from short ledges to seriously tall. It is the rare…
70 ftGreen Mountain Reservoir dam cliffs
Expert Unverified Summit CountyTiered cliffs on the northwest shore just east of Green Mountain Dam, with a top around 70 feet. One of Colorado's best-known big jumps, and officially closed to jumping since a…
40 ftAdrenaline Falls (Lime Creek)
Intermediate Unverified 15 · 40 ft La Plata CountyA string of pools and ledges on Lime Creek in the San Juans north of Durango, with jumps reported from about 15 up to 40 feet. There is no trail and no sign — you park on the…
25 ftDevil's Punchbowl (Independence Pass)
Beginner Unverified 10 · 25 ft 12 ft deep Pitkin CountyA deep green pool where the upper Roaring Fork drops through granite on Independence Pass, about nine miles east of Aspen near the Grottos. The main jump is roughly 25 feet into…
Cliff jumping in Colorado: common questions
- Where can you go cliff jumping in Colorado?
- SmartLeap maps 6 cliff jumping spots in Colorado across 6 counties, concentrated around the Roaring Fork, the San Juans, the South Park granite. Every listing gives the jump heights, the water depth where someone has measured it, how to get there and what the hazards are.
- What is the highest cliff jump in Colorado?
- The tallest jump mapped here is 80 ft at Black Hole (Two Buttes). Height is not the same as safety: depth under a jump changes with the season, so check your own landing before anyone goes off it.
- Is cliff jumping legal in Colorado?
- It depends on who manages the land. Spots that a land manager has closed to jumping are deliberately left off this map, and where a place has a posted rule — a height limit, a waiver, a seasonal closure — the spot page says so. Signs on site always win over anything written here.
- When is the season for cliff jumping in Colorado?
- Most of it runs from mid-July into September, after spring runoff drops out of the rivers and the water has had a few weeks of sun. Early-season flows are the thing that actually kills people, not the height of the rock.