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.
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Cary's Sun Cave
Out in the area near Cary’s Castle is a fascinating pictograph site hidden under a large boulder. It took a few long hikes and a lot of research to track it down. And when we finally did find it, we didn’t get back to the trailhead until well
Silver Edsel Mill
Not its real name, the mines in this part of Idaho were first worked in the 1880s and 1890s, but development didn’t start in a serious way until the 1920s when the first mill was built on this site. The mill was expanded in 1934 into a 50-ton (per
Crescent Peak Arrastra
I visited a fairly modern arrastra in Southern Nevada in 2019. It is mostly intact, with the drag stones still in place. That is a rare find!
The district was worked prehistorically for turquoise, but there are some small gold deposits here. A shallow shaft and other prospects are behind
Super Cave Pictographs
This sandstone rock shelter in southern Nevada has an interesting assortment of pictographs. Native American Southern Paiute and Mohave made their homes here, and either could have made these markings. The site itself looks like it could have been a small encampment above a wash.
I explored a few different
Brooklyn Mine (Boulder Creek District)
I couldn’t find much history on this spot, only that it was worked on in 1907 for silver, lead, zinc, and some copper. Reportedly, it was an underground hydraulic operation to wash ore out of the vein. That must have been something to see.
On the surface, you can
Paiute Cave Pictographs
A set of Virgin Anasazi pictographs is inside a collapsed lava tube in the Arizona Strip. They believed that caves were the entrance to the spirit world. This is a sacred place.
The pictographs are protected from the elements by the cave ceiling, and as such, they are particularly vibrant.