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Rock Art

Native American pictographs and petroglyphs. No directions or waypoints to rock art sites unless they are already known or published.

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Jayhawker Spring Petroglyphs

Jayhawker Spring Petroglyphs

In 1936, two young men from a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, Rockey Cochran and Farland Wells, followed a local Indian named Tom Wilson up a nameless side canyon in the Panamint Mountains. Wilson led them to a cluster of dark lava boulders near a seep on the canyon's

Freightwagon Petroglyphs

Freightwagon Petroglyphs

It is a long and lonely walk into the wilderness of the Mojave Desert to get to this isolated petroglyph site. Hidden in the Cinder Cone Lava Beds of California's Mojave Preserve, the Freightwagon site contains a remarkable concentration of rock art. Most of the few hundred petroglyphs

Honeymoon Hill Petroglyphs

Honeymoon Hill Petroglyphs

Bald Mountain Wash Petroglyphs

Bald Mountain Wash Petroglyphs

Born Again Pictographs

Born Again Pictographs

The spectacular Born Again Pictograph site lies deep in the backcountry of Joshua Tree National Park. It is located in the granite maze wilderness of Queen Mountain and is a bit of a hike to reach. This rock shelter was once a habitation site and is covered with faded pictographs.

Robidoux Inscription and Pictographs

Robidoux Inscription and Pictographs

Red Hole Wash Pictographs

Red Hole Wash Pictographs