CA Joshua Tree

Like the Lonely Stones Petroglyphs, this is another isolated boulder outcrop that makes you ask why Native Americans would pick this particular boulder to leave their markings. The answer to that question remains a mystery. I did find a small tinaja, however, that makes me think they would have stopped

Nestled in the Wonderland of Rocks and just around the corner from Alister's Cave in Joshua Tree National Park is another rock shelter with pictographs: the Diamond Solstice Pictographs. The main symbols here are a sunburst arc, diamonds, and diamond chains. Their meanings have been lost to time, but there

A good friend of mine gave me a couple of tips on where a set of petroglyphs was hidden in the heart of Joshua Tree National Park. I hadn't heard anything about these petroglyphs, and I was definitely interested. He asked me to keep it's location a secret though. After

Just around the corner from Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree are two pictograph sites. They are not well known and only a few pictographs are here but they are still well worth a visit. Both sites were once used for bouldering (rock climbing) but are now off-limits. The climbers definitely

On a stormy July day a few years ago, I finally went out and visited the Lonely Stones Petroglyph site. As is often the case, it had been on my list of places to visit for years.