Swasey’s Cabin
Swasey’s cabin was built in 1921 by the locally well-known Swasey brothers as a line cabin. They would stay out here to watch over their cattle. Out behind the cabin, in one of the canyons, they had an icebox setup where they would store meats and any other foodstuffs.
Funk’s Cave Pictographs
After a long hike across empty sand flats and through desolate canyons, we found a small alcove with a few Fremont figures and a six-color rainbow pictograph on the back wall. I’ve never seen anything like it.
The site is way out in the middle of nowhere with no
Ascending Sheep Pictographs
Out in the Utah desert, we found an amazing set of Barrier Canyon Style pictographs. The panel consists of an animal spirit figure surrounded by bighorn sheep and two amorphic figures on the right.
In the center of the panel, the animal spirit figure is a composite of a bighorn
The Juggler Petroglyphs
This is an interesting and fun little Fremont petroglyph site. The single anthropomorphic figure is surrounded by concentric circles. Amusingly, he looks like he is juggling suns, hence the name.
It’s possible there are a few more petroglyphs around in the immediate area. I’ll have to come back
Moccasin Track Petroglyphs
On top of a mesa and way out in the Utah desert, we came across a few petroglyphs carved into the bedrock. And they were connected in a series… It is a trail! Neither one of us had ever seen anything like this before. Petroglyphs along a wall? Sure, all
Box Flat and Prickly Pear Flat Cowboy Camps
Sometimes, you just feel like driving on some wide open dirt roads.
I went out to the Utah desert in 2016 to hunt for a few pictograph sites. Instead, I came across two cowboy camps. Not much is left at either of them: a broken stove, bed springs, dishes, and