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Castleton Tower sits at the southern terminus of a ridge made mostly of red sand, gravel, scatter boulders, and few short cliff lines. The ridge runs north to south for about 2,800 feet (850 m) at its high point. Castleton Tower, with an area of about 40 by 400 feet (10 by 120 m) shares the
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Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). The SITLA is a state land trust which auctions and leases lands to private interests in order to fund Utah schools and related state institutions. In the spring of 1999 SITLA auctioned off one or two parcels
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In 1964 and again in 1973, the tower was the location for two
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land-developer with a local partner who planned to subdivide the land creating lots for residential housing. This plan would have eliminated the Tower's camping ground and reduced recreational access to the Tower's base. In response the Castle Rock
Collaboration (CRC) formed to prevent commercial
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Among the most popular rock climbing destinations in the world, Castleton Tower has been summitted by thousands. Climbing historian
Stewart Green reports that the number of successful ascents is over 40,000 and there have been so many that "no one really knows how many folks have reached the
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at the ridge's northern terminus with a similar height but considerably larger area of about 200 by 1,000 feet (60 by 300 m). This second structure is also referred to as
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of land extending to between 60 acres (24 ha) and 120 acres (49 ha), depending on the referenced report. The land initially went to an
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