Hollow Rock Pictographs
While exploring the Wonderland of Rocks, not far from Barker Dam, we came across an unassuming large granite boulder.
Ram on Rocks Pictographs
In 2012, I visited a very small native site in the backcountry of Joshua Tree. There is a larger habitation site not far away (which this site is named for). One thing that makes this particular site interesting for the area is the metate and manos sitting out front of
Indian Cave Boulder Pictographs
Years ago, I went out in search of this hidden rock shelter full of pictographs. It is one of the most decorated rock shelters in Joshua Tree National Park. Pictographs, probably made by the Serranos, cover the walls and ceiling of the interior cave. It was difficult to photograph them
Surprise Rock Pictographs
In early 2013, I was out hiking in the backcountry of the Wonderland of Rocks in Joshua Tree National Park and came across this solitary boulder with petroglyphs and pictographs. They are inside of a concave, hollowed-out section of a large White Tank monzogranite boulder along what could have been
Southern Eagle Pictographs
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.
Black Eagle Mine
Outside Joshua Tree National Park and deep within the stark Eagle Mountains, the crumbling Black Eagle Mine, surrounded by its massive neighbor, the Eagle Mountain Mine, is slowly fading into the desert. Its ruins are barely recognizable as the bustling operation they once were.
History
In 1898, a prospector named