Help us build the most complete climbing resource in Portugal

Rock Climbing Portugal is a community project, which means it only gets better if the community is behind it. We are a small team and we cannot be everywhere at once, but collectively, portuguese climbers have an incredible amount of knowledge sitting in their brains, their cameras, and their notebooks that the rest of us would love to have access to.

Here is how you can help:

If you have sketches of topos, scanned guidebook pages you own, or digital route overlays for crags that are not yet on the site, we want to see them. An imperfect topo is better than no topo for someone standing at the base of a wall trying to figure out which line is which.

Head over to our contact page and send us the topo with the crag name and region and we will get them on the site.

Routes change: bolts get replaced, grades get revised, classics get polished, and occasionally a landowner puts up a fence. If something on the site is wrong or outdated, let us know. We would rather have a small embarrassing correction than leave bad information up for the next person to be caught by surprise.

Useful updates include:

• Grade corrections or disputes
• Bolt condition and rebolting info
• New routes or recently cleaned lines
• Sector or route names that locals actually use versus what ended up in the guidebook

This is valuable information on any climbing site and also the most likely to get outdated. Trailhead locations, dirt road conditions, whether you can fit a van or whether there is a gate that closes at sunset. If you know the approach well, write it down and send it to us via our contact page. Future visitors will thank you even if they never know your name.

A good photo of the wall does more than a thousand words of description. If you have clean shots showing the crag, the routes or the surrounding landscape, we would love to add them. Include the crag name and ideally the direction the wall faces so we can credit it correctly.

Action shots of climbing are also welcome!

Seasonal bird nesting restrictions, private land disputes, areas that require permission, crags that are technically open but sensitive. This information is critical and often hard to find. If you know about any access issues, active or resolved, please share them with us.

Some crags dry fast after rain, some stay wet for three days. Some face south and are perfect in January and unbearable in August. Seasonal condition notes are something no guidebook can keep current, but a community can. If you climb a crag regularly and know its quirks, a short note goes a long way.

Rock Climbing Portugal is free and will stay free. There are no paywalls and no premium tiers, but running the site has real costs of time and money. If the site has saved you a wasted drive, helped you find a new crag, or just given you something useful, consider supporting us. Every contribution goes directly into keeping the lights on and adding more crags to the map. You can find the donation link on our About page.

The best thing you can do right now is share the site with other climbers, in group chats, on forums or in the gym. Word of mouth helps more than you might think.

Have something to contribute? Head to our contact page and tell us all about it!

This is your site as much as ours. The more people contribute, the better it gets for everyone who climbs in Portugal and those discovering it.

Rock Climbing Portugal is a free community resource built and maintained by climbers, for climbers.