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Native American pictographs and petroglyphs. No directions or waypoints to rock art sites unless they are already known or published.

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Dancing Man Petroglyphs

Dancing Man Petroglyphs

We met up with some friends to poke around a surprisingly nice petroglyph site in an empty corner of the Nevada desert. The black basalt ridge where all the petroglyphs are located doesn’t look like anything special from a distance, but that changes when you get close and hike

Gunlock Petroglyphs

Gunlock Petroglyphs

We took a little side trip while in Southern Utah in late 2010 to check out this incredible rock art site I had heard about. My photos aren’t the best, but the site didn’t disappoint. The site is a short hike up a steep hillside, which is best

Squaw Spring Petroglyphs

Squaw Spring Petroglyphs

We visited this Kawaiisu village and petroglyph site on a clear and cold January day. There are not many petroglyphs here, but it is an interesting site nonetheless. There are a few petroglyphs and grinding rocks to be found on the flat plateaus, but the majority of the petroglyphs are

Pictograph Boulder at Queen Mountain

Pictograph Boulder at Queen Mountain

Back in 2012, I decided to go out to Joshua Tree National Park and see if I could find a small pictograph site hidden in a boulder field in the backcountry. I had a good idea of where it was, but you never know for sure, and I would still

Mule Canyon Ruins

Mule Canyon Ruins

This is an Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruin site with many ruined towers and cliff dwellings. I had read about this site some time ago and was eager to go check it out. The site is not hard to reach, but hours of hiking and climbing are required to reach some

Circle Sun Ledge Pictographs

Circle Sun Ledge Pictographs

Hidden on a small, inconspicuous ledge deep in the Joshua Tree wilderness lies an intriguing pictograph site. When we discovered it after a lengthy bushwhack, the park archaeologist informed us that he believed it was a previously unrecorded site. Huzzah! The site features almost entirely abstract pictographs positioned along the

Moccasin Track Petroglyphs

Moccasin Track Petroglyphs

On top of a mesa and way out in the Utah desert, we came across a few petroglyphs carved into the bedrock. And they were connected in a series… It is a trail! Neither one of us had ever seen anything like this before. Petroglyphs along a wall? Sure, all