San Rafael Swell Rock Art II
Sunday, May 1, 2011
After spending a long weekend in Salt Lake City for Amanda’s birthday, we headed home through the San Rafael Swell so that I could stop at a few easily accessible rock art panels at the base of Cedar Mountain that I had not been to before. Here’s a few photos I took.
Our first stop was at The Silent Sentinel. It’s hard to tell scale from this photo, but it’s a pretty good sized petroglyph.
Silent Sentinel by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Next to The Silent Sentinel was this boulder that had a bunch of petroglyphs on it.
Cedar Mountain Petroglyphs by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Next up was a stop at the boulder that contains the Daisy Chain petroglyphs.
Daisy Chain by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Then we stopped to visit a slab of rock sticking out of the ground at about a 45 degree angle containing a few more petroglyphs.
45 Degree Rock by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
At a set of rocks named Railroad Rocks, named after some historic inscriptions that are carved into them, there are a few more petroglyphs. Some say that one of them is of a duck…but I’m not so sure about that?
Duck Panel by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
A closer look that the figure that might be a duck above a snake-like figure.
The Duck and the Snake by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
This lone anthropomorph is high on the front of Railroad Rock.
Loner by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
What looks like a scorpion found along Buckhorn Wash.
Scorpion by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
A larger anthropomorph found next to the scorpion posted above.
Spiral Arm by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
I also made another stop at The Cattle Guard Panel.
Cattle Guard Panel 2 by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
We also stopped at the famous Buckhorn Wash Panel along the way, but I’ve posted plenty of photos from there before and didn’t get anything better this trip, so I won’t bore you with anymore from there this time.
Can you tell us the location of the Cattle Guard Petroglyph. We have search for 3 days but the BLM has taken up a lot of cattle guards and put down a few new ones so old directions are obsolete. Thank you.
I don’t have the location handy at the moment but there is a large pull-out with an constructed trail right to the site.
The cattle guard has been removed by the BLM. We found the site and I hike 2/3 of the way up the boulder strewn canyon and saw nothing. I took pictures or the wall so I could enlarge them on y computer to see if I missed anything. I didn’t. Mine were the only foot prints in the canyon. Someone said afterwards the petroglyphs are near the front on the canyon wall on the left. Is this true?
I’ve never been to this site when the cattle guard was in place. There is a large pull-off (parking area) on the side of the the road with a constructed trail that leads right to the site. It’s a well-used trail. You cannot see the site from the road as it is behind a mound of boulders.