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Black Dragon Pictographs

Black Dragon Pictographs

This site is set a little ways back inside of an impressively deep canyon. The site got its name because one of the main pictograph designs resembles a dragon or pterodactyl. Researchers have discovered, however, that the group of pictographs is a collection of five separate images overlapping with each

Copper Globe Mine

Copper Globe Mine

The Copper Globe Mine never really had much production, but it is an interesting destination in some remote country. The mine was worked for copper from 1906 through WWII. The wind has blown sand in most of the mine entrances. GPS

Thompson Canyon Pictographs

Thompson Canyon Pictographs

The Thompson Canyon Pictographs site (also known as the Sego Canyon Pictograph site) is an impressive place. Large panels of Ute, Fremont, Anasazi, Barrier Canyon, Archaic pictographs, and petroglyphs adorn the cliff walls of the canyon. People have been coming to this spot in the canyon and painting pictographs here

Butler Wash Ruins

Butler Wash Ruins

Butler Wash is a long creek with Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruins scattered all along it. The BLM has created an overlook at one of the ruins in a side canyon of the wash. There is a nice natural bridge (arch) nearby, and I got some good shots of recent rainwater