Lone Warrior Pictograph The Lone Warrior Pictograph is all by himself in the San Rafael Swell country of the Utah desert near Swasey's Cabin. He is a Barrier Canyon style warrior figure and well worth a visit. GPS
Owl Panel, Nine Mile Canyon Hidden away in a short side canyon of Nine Mile Canyon is this fantastic little petroglyph panel of owls. How often do you see owl petroglyphs? For me, it isn’t very often. They are pretty amazing. There is even more than one owl here! Spectacular! If you visit this
Swasey’s Cabin Swasey’s cabin was built in 1921 by the locally well-known Swasey brothers as a line cabin. They would stay out here to watch over their cattle. Out behind the cabin, in one of the canyons, they had an icebox setup where they would store meats and any other foodstuffs.
Robidoux Inscription and Pictographs On a late autumn day in 1837, a fur trapper from Santa Fe, Antoine Robidoux, stopped along a narrow canyon in the Territorio de Alta California (what is present-day Utah). Beaver pelts were surprisingly lucrative at the time, and as hard as it is to believe today, the Uinta River
Red Hole Wash Pictographs After a long hike across empty sand flats and through desolate canyons, we found a small alcove with a few Fremont figures and a six-color rainbow pictograph on the back wall. I’ve never seen anything like it. The site is way out in the middle of nowhere with no
Anderson Cabin I was out exploring in the wild hinterlands of Utah a few years ago, and a backcountry cabin caught my eye. There aren’t many other cabins (or mines) out here, so I definitely wanted to pay this one a visit. Built by a man named Earl Anderson and his
Ascending Sheep Pictographs We found an amazing set of Barrier Canyon Style pictographs in the Utah desert. The panel consists of an animal spirit figure surrounded by bighorn sheep and two amorphic figures on the right. In the center of the panel, the animal spirit figure is a composite of a bighorn sheep’