They also will enjoy close-up views of the mountains around them and the neighboring Little Red Rock area, which contains petroglyphs and pictographs that are said to be thousands of years old.

Jeffers Petroglyphs is part of the Red Rock Ridge, which rises some 100 to 300 feet above the landscape in northeast Cottonwood County and dominates the surrounding terrain. Twenty-three miles ...

There, hidden in the shifting sands, unique red rock formations, and arid canyons, are carvings dating back over 12,000 years ...

Blue powder stains Utah red rocks after powder cannon blast ... vandalism to contact their Price field office. Discovering the petroglyphs of Nine Mile Canyon below: Discovering the petroglyphs ...

Ancient petroglyphs carved into volcanic rock outside Bishop in the eastern ... The Paiute-Shoshone Indians later chipped away at the red pumice stone, which exposed the lighter rock minerals ...

Among the multi-colored rocks are arches, hoodoos, and canyons both grand and narrow, where Ancestral Puebloan structures and petroglyphs are safely tucked. In red rock country the Earth’s crust ...

The red rocks bear evidence of both petroglyphs and rock paintings. Utah State University geologist Joel Pederson told Smithsonian Magazine that the painted figures in Horseshoe Canyon's famous ...

Consisting of pictograms either drawn in red ocher, a natural pigment, or incised into the rock as petroglyphs (rock carvings), the images grace remote boulders, cliff walls, and even rocks ...

Petroglyphs are hard puzzles to decipher. Despite a wealth of knowledge, historians and archaeologists can’t always put the whole picture together. The mysterious Dighton Rock is a classic example.