Right behind the upper fireplace there is a long wall packed with ledges and edges.  Easy warm up and fun.  You could do it in your sneakers like me.

Big Inside Wall

Wave Traverse

Shrubbery Wall

Bathroom Break

Balcony Mantel

Upper Fireplace

The Cave

On the upper level of the shelter, you'll see the restrooms. Just to the left of the men's door, there's a wooden frame on the wall. Start to the left of this, and make your way to the right. You'll cross the wooden support, the men's room door, a drinking fountain (...bubbler), and then the women's room door. 

  Try not to touch anything except for the wall! There are a couple pipes and exhaust vents that may get in your way, but you have elegance and grace enough not to use them. 

  This route has crimpy holds and not much to offer for feet. Keep moving, and trust the friction on the porous rock.

The Wave Traverse is located on the south side of the Garner Park shelter.  The wall starts out low (about 4 ft high) and less than vertical, and then transitions into a higher wall (10 ft high) and becomes vertical.  A very nice warmup problem.

Shrubbery Wall is located on the west side of the Garner Park Shelter.  Start out above some boulders in the mulch garden and traverse right on the less-than-vertical wall.  Once you reach the shrubs, go up a bit higher to clear the shrubs or stay low and go through the shrubs (for a true Devil's Lake experience).  Towards the south end the wall gets short (about 4 feet high).  Try some layback-type moves here using the capstones of the wall.  The traverse is probably 30 feet.  Try it round trip for more endurance.

Come out next to the shrub wall and there is a huge balcony out there.  Jump up on the point and make your way up and mantel trying to avoid using the railing that is right there until you are up on it.  (beached whale)

You can start off on either side of the fireplace, make your way over the door and fireplace to the other side.  Try not to use the top edge of the wall when you get to the right side of the fireplace.  Easy warm up.

The Cave is a little bit tougher problem than most at the Garner Park shelter.  The traverse is located above a long bench built into the wall.  The bench is off (don't use it for your feet) so the height of the wall that's climbable here is about 5 feet high.  Traverse the wall following the bench using a lot of crimper holds.  This will make your hands very tired.  This is a great problem to try if you want to work on hand and forearm strength.

The Garner Park Shelter is made of what looks to be limestone blocks.  There are plenty of nice big ledges to stand on, but if you get creative you can find only small crimpers to hang on to.  There are traverse problems up to 30 feet long, more if you try to traverse the whole shelter.  This building is ripe for the picking!

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Routes in Garner Park Shelter