Hikes and 4wd adventures in the Grand Staircase and San Rafael Swell Regions.
11 trips

Angel Canyon Ruin
A couple of months ago, we took a quick trip to Utah. One of the places we visited was a ...
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Ascending Sheep Pictographs
Out in the Utah desert, we found an amazing set of Barrier Canyon Style pictographs. The panel consists of an ...
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Black Dragon Pictographs
This site is set a little ways back inside of an impressively deep canyon. The site got its name because ...
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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 ...
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Copper Globe Mine
The Copper Globe Mine never really had much production but it is an interesting destination in some remote country. The ...
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Funk’s Cave Pictographs
After a long hike across empty sand flats and through desolate canyons, we found a small alcove with a few ...
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Lone Warrior Pictograph
The Lone Warrior Pictograph is all by himself in the Utah desert. He is well drawn and worth a visit ...
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Moccasin Track Petroglyphs
On top of a mesa and way out in the Utah desert, we came across a few petroglyphs carved into ...
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Silent Sentinel Petroglyphs
Late in the spring of 2011, we were off exploring in the backcountry of Utah’s San Rafael Swell. We spent ...
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Swasey’s Cabin
Swasey’s cabin was built in 1921 by the well-known Swasey brothers as a line cabin. They would stay out here ...
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The Juggler Petroglyphs
This is an interesting and fun little Fremont petroglyph site. The single anthropomorphic figure is surrounded by concentric circles. Amusingly, ...
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Last Updated on August 2, 2020 by Guy Starbuck