A few miles north of Maryvale, Utah is Fremont Indian State Park. The park is in a narrow canyon and runs along each side of Interstate 70. The canyon walls are full of rock art created by the Fremont people who lived here from about the year 0 to about 1350.
Because rock art can be difficult to photograph, in these blogs I have adjusted the exposure and color of the photos to make the petroglyphs (chipped into the rock) and pictographs (painted on the rock) easier to see.
Looks like a spaceman to me
Huntington, UT is on the edge of the San Rafael Swell, a large geologic feature that is more than 75 miles long and 40 miles wide. It is located south of Price, Utah and is roughly bounded by routes 191 and 6 on the north and 24 and 72 in the south and is bisected by I 70. If it was located any where but southern Utah, it would have been declared a national monument long ago. Because a large portion of southern Utah has already been named a national park or monument, the people who live there resist any more. You may want to look up the Swell. It is a fascinating, wild, desolate and beautiful place. Just the type of place we like. There are a few old mining areas and a few old homesteads, but no one has lived in the entire area for many, many years. The only paved road in the Swell is I 70. There are 100s of miles of gravel roads, some good, most not so good and some that are a challenge even for 4 wheel drive vehicles. Getting to the attractions in the Swell can be difficult but is half the fun.
All of the remaining photos were taken in or near the Swell.
The Fremont people lived here and left petroglyph rock art panels throughout the area. The pictographs are thought to be painted by people that were here before the Fremont.
This canyon is named "Molen Seep Wash." We hiked to the bottom of the wash to see the pictographs that are located at the bottom of the shaded cliff face on the upper left of the photo.
Pictographs in a canyon named the "Ferron Box"
