Box Flat and Prickly Pear Flat Cowboy Camps

Box Flat and Prickly Pear Flat Cowboy Camps

Sometimes, you just feel like driving on some wide open dirt roads.

I went out to the Utah desert hunting for a few pictograph sites. Instead, I came across two cowboy camps. Not much is left at either of them: a broken stove, bed springs, dishes, and utensils, but I found them interesting. I don’t know their age or history but they are fun to visit and ponder lonely life on the range.

Box Flat and Prickly Pear Flat Cowboy Camps

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Box Flat Road — On the road

Box Flat — Along the two track

Box Flat — Our road gets a little rougher

Box Flat — And rougher

Box Flat — Some sandstone steps drop into the flat

Box Flat — If you look carefully, you might spot a bighorn sheep.

Box Flat — Another bighorn

Box Flat — I hike up a canyon

Box Flat — Tinaja

Box Flat

Box Flat

Box Flat — I stumble across an old cowboy camp.

Box Flat — A nice line of stones

Box Flat — Some debris

Box Flat

Box Flat — Beat up stove

Box Flat — And a bed frame

Box Flat — Stove

Box Flat — Home on the range. This old stove has quite a view.

Box Flat — I spot a cave across the flat and head over to investigate.

Box Flat — It is a small shelter with some firewood.

Prickly Pear Flat — On the road again.

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — Getting closer

Prickly Pear Flat — Some artifacts

Prickly Pear Flat — Bed springs

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — A campsite

Prickly Pear Flat — Another bed

Prickly Pear Flat — Stove remains and rock alignment

Prickly Pear Flat — Stove parts

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — Fireplace

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — Capital Universal No 268-16

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — Wash bucket

Prickly Pear Flat — I found a wire cage around a juniper tree.

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — Storage?

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — This might have been to keep animals out rather than lock them in.

Prickly Pear Flat — The camp had a great view.

Prickly Pear Flat — Another wire mesh cage

Prickly Pear Flat

Prickly Pear Flat — In the canyon is a concrete dam

Prickly Pear Flat — Little dam

Prickly Pear Flat — I climb up on top of the mesa

Prickly Pear Flat — This is a lonely country.

Last Updated on August 1, 2020 by Guy Starbuck

Post date August 12, 2018
Post categories In Grand Staircase and San Rafael Swell, Utah