The Twin Sisters, the most prominent and recognizable rock formations at the City of Rocks National Reserve (CIRO) in Idaho, have been closed to climbing since 1993.

Idaho’s City of Rocks National Reserve (CIRO) began the process of revising its 1998 Climbing Management Plan (CMP), but the National Park Service (NPS) has already decided, without public input, that it won’t even consider an alternative that would allow any climbing on the famed Twin Sisters formation. This position ignores the stance of Idaho Congressional delegation, Almo locals, and the climbing community.

The Access Fund has long advocated for a balanced management scenario that provides even the most modest level of climbing opportunities while not impairing the historical values of the Twin Sisters.

Your voice is critical to reclaim climbing opportunities at Twin Sisters.

Climbers that care about Twin Sisters, and how the NPS manages our public resources, should write the agency and tell them to:
• expand the narrow and arbitrary scope of their planned climbing management plan revision at the City of Rocks
• add a third alternative that provides at least some level of climbing opportunities on the Twin Sisters that is more consistent with current, though restrictive, NPS management policies.

To see a letter from an Idaho local on this issue, go here www.accessfund.com//pdf/HannahNorthltr.pdf.

The City of Rocks has extended the comment period through at least Friday April 7. Write to:

Wallace Keck, Superintendent
City of Rocks National Reserve
P.O. Box 169 - Almo, ID 83312
Fax: 208-824-5563
Email: Wallace_Keck@partner.nps.gov

For more background on internal NPS planning to date, go here www.accessfund.com/pdf/Minutes_CIROCMPReview.pdf

VERY IMPORTANT: on all letters, copy your US Congressional members (for your state, see www.congress.org) and these members of the Idaho Congressional delegation:

US Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID)
SH-520
Washington, D.C. 20510-1203
Phone: (202) 224-2752

US Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)
SD-239
Washington, D.C. 20510-1205
Phone: (202) 224-6142

US Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID 2nd)
1339 LHOB
Washington, D.C. 20515-1202
Phone: (202) 225-5531

Email the Access Fund’s Policy Director Jason Keith for more information at jason@accessfund.org.