Stand with Access Fund to protect your favorite climbing areas and ensure sustainable access for generations to come.
[PHOTO CREDIT] Climbing in Linville Gorge Wilderness, N.C. Ancestral lands of the S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Catawba. Photo courtesy of © Bryan Miller | Fixed Line Media
Join, renew, or make a donation here to protect and conserve the climbing landscapes we love and fight for sustainable access for generations to come.
Gifts $50 or more receive a FREE members-only t-shirt and sticker.
Your donation makes you a member of the largest climbing advocacy community in the country. It comes with some perks:
Pro deals on climbing and outdoor gear
Members-only t-shirt with exclusive climbing artwork
Custom membership sticker
Digital subscription to the Vertical Times climbing advocacy newsletter
We’re transparent with you.
75 cents of every dollar you donate goes directly to protecting climbing areas.
We’re results driven.
We’ve permanently protected more than 40 million acres of public lands, and counting.
We’re experts in public policy.
Our staff has more than 100 collective years of public lands advocacy experience.
We’re an accredited land trust.
To date, we have helped purchase more than 90 climbing areas, protected more than 13,000 routes, and prevented 19,000 acres of climbing-rich lands from being sold, developed, and closed to climbing.
We know how to collaborate.
We spend hundreds of hours each year working with lawmakers, land managers, Tribal governments, and private landowners to advocate for sustainable climbing access.
Shirt design features Zion, Utah by Lizzy Dalton designed exclusively for Access Fund members. Photo © Emily Nelson
Get the exclusive membership t-shirt, featuring original climbing artwork, when you give $50 or more.
Access Fund supports a powerful network of 8 million climbers and 145 local climbing organizations across the country, putting boots on the ground to protect climbing areas, plants, animals, and cultural values that make them so special.
[PHOTO CREDIT] © Kris Ugarriza
