Moab Meanderings: Moab Area Rock Art XXXX

Saturday, February 11, 2023

After spending last week around southern Arizona, I was looking to stay a little closer to home this weekend and figured a day trip to Moab in search of rock art was in order on Saturday. There is a very nice petroglyph panel that I’ve been looking for on and off for about twelve years now, so I thought it was time to finally continue the search for that one again since I thought I might have a good idea where it was this time. I left home early on Saturday morning, arrived in Moab shortly after sunrise, and began my search…

There was still quite a bit of snow on the ground around Moab that I had to walk through, until I reached the bottom of this small canyon where it had melted off.

It wasn’t long until I spotted my first petroglyph on the canyon wall.

Then I continued to find more new petroglyph panels in the area…

This was a really nice panel, but it was difficult to photograph in the sun behind the tree.

Although it was mostly overcast during my hike, the sun did come out for a little while- just as I started to find petroglyphs.

This was a really cool larger anthropomorph.

The Centipede

Walking the canyon bottom shortly before the sun would disappear again for the rest of the afternoon.

While I was out and about I stopped to visit the lower end of Entrajo Canyon.

While obviously not authentic, these fake cave painting are kind of cool.

Lizard Panel

I did find the petroglyph panel I was looking for, which was a nice birthday present to myself!

Here’s a closer look at the main part of the panel.

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