With a narrow window of opportunity, the Access Fund applied $152,000 of loan funding to secure temporary ownership of a critical access point to the Homestead in central Arizona to save the area from indefinite closure. With over 250 sport climbs on 12 limestone walls, the Homestead is one of the best winter limestone climbing areas in the country, boasting true “tufa” sport routes. But in 2014, access was imminently threatened when the bank foreclosed on a piece of private property that overlapped key portions of the access road, trailhead, and first few dozen routes. If sold to a non-climber-friendly buyer, access to the entire Homestead area could have been lost.