Dancing Man Petroglyphs
We met up with some friends to poke around a surprisingly nice petroglyph site in an empty corner of the Nevada desert. The black basalt ridge where all the petroglyphs are located doesn’t look like anything special from a distance, but that changes when you get close and hike
Gunlock Petroglyphs
We took a little side trip while in Southern Utah in late 2010 to check out this incredible rock art site I had heard about. My photos aren’t the best, but the site didn’t disappoint.
The site is a short hike up a steep hillside, which is best
Squaw Spring Petroglyphs
We visited this Kawaiisu village and petroglyph site on a clear and cold January day. There are not many petroglyphs here, but it is an interesting site nonetheless.
There are a few petroglyphs and grinding rocks to be found on the flat plateaus, but the majority of the petroglyphs are
Pictograph Boulder at Queen Mountain
Back in 2012, I decided to go out to Joshua Tree National Park and see if I could find a small pictograph site hidden in a boulder field in the backcountry. I had a good idea of where it was, but you never know for sure, and I would still
Mule Canyon Cave Tower Ruins
This is an Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruin site with many ruined towers and cliff dwellings. I had read about this site some time ago and was eager to go check it out. The site is not hard to reach, but hours of hiking and climbing are required to reach some
Circle Sun Ledge Pictographs
Hidden on a small, inconspicuous ledge deep in the Joshua Tree wilderness lies an intriguing pictograph site. When we discovered it after a lengthy bushwhack, the park archaeologist informed us that he believed it was a previously unrecorded site. Huzzah!
The site features almost entirely abstract pictographs positioned along the