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.
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Gerstley Mine
Prospector Johnny Sheridan lived in a cave with skunks and chuckwallas while he roamed the southern end of the Resting Spring Range in 1922. He discovered borate deposits that year that would launch the Gerstley Mine, which in a short amount of time created a town and required its own
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
Golden Bear Mining Camp
Up and Down Mine Cabin
In 2005, I took a quick trip out to some of the more remote reaches of the northern Death Valley National Park wilderness to check out an old mercury mining site and look for a possible cabin. Not too many people get out in these hills. It was a nice
Echo Canyon Petroglyphs
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 Waypoint