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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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Blackrock Well Historic Writing and Petroglyphs

Blackrock Well Historic Writing and Petroglyphs

In 2006, Dan and I hiked out to this petroglyph site we’ve wanted to check out for a while. It was a bit of a hike, but we were well rewarded. We were very surprised to find historical inscriptions by cowboy and miner Bill Keys (of Joshua Tree fame)

Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City Pictographs

Panamint City is mainly known for its mining boom, but it also has some lesser-known native American sites, and what awesome sites they are! It is a bit of a trek to get up there these days, and probably best done as an overnight backpack. The trip is well worth

Red Lady Pictographs

Red Lady Pictographs

Back in 2010, we visited a couple of pictograph sites in Joshua Tree. Both of these sites have red female figures in small caves. Finding pictograph sites is good enough, but there is more to these sites. On the spring equinox, the sun makes a unique appearance at each of

Cottonwood Ridge Petroglyphs

Cottonwood Ridge Petroglyphs

For three years, a photo of a petroglyph site had been sitting in my inbox. (Not my regular inbox, but the “I’ll get around to it someday” inbox.) The photo only showed a couple of boulders, covered with petroglyphs, on a hillside. The caption said it was somewhere in

Cane Man Petroglyphs

Cane Man Petroglyphs

I met up with a few friends in 2009 to check out some petroglyphs in western Nevada. This is a remarkably interesting site near an ancient lakebed. The petroglyphs on one rock are known as "Cane Man" and are unique and seem quite out of place with the

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

Echo Canyon Petroglyphs

In 2009, I had a nice hike up this sandy canyon to check out some algae fossils and petroglyphs on limestone bedrock. Not much out here in these lonely hills of eastern Death Valley National Park. GPS

Old Crump Flat

Old Crump Flat

Dan and I had been wanting to go out here for some time. The site is not difficult to reach; we could just never seem to find the time to get out to this part of Death Valley. The rock shelter at Old Crump Flat turned out to be somewhat