This is a small petroglyph site out in the Mojave desert near the larger and more well-known Black Canyon and Inscription Canyon petroglyph sites. The site is at a choke point where a wash comes through a gap in the hills.
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Willis Well Petroglyphs
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George and Mildred Willis settled on this land in 1915. George