Tag: petroglyphs
Da Vinci Petroglyph Trail in the Virgin River Gorge
How about a moderately strenuous hike to some great petroglyph sites with colorful mountains as a backdrop. Especially if one of the glyphs resembles Italian Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci’s (1452-1519) famous Vitruvian Man featuring a male figure with outstretched arms and legs inside a circle and square
Hiking Southern Utah: Wire Pass Narrows
The Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area is most famous for The Wave, a rock formation that requires a much sought-after permit to see. It is an envied notch in the belt so to speak, but if you only focus on The Wave, you can miss out on the rest of the spectacular landscape.
Enepitsi (Ghost) Trail in the Santa Clara River Reserve
This trail is an easy out and back hike mostly along the Santa Clara River featuring high cliffs, petroglyphs, and a riparian environment near the river.
Hiking Southern Utah: Enepitsi Trail (aka the Ghost Trail)
The trail is reached by turning left onto a gravel road on the south side of Santa Clara Drive a half-mile west of the Jacob Hamblin Home in Santa Clara and parking at the Tukupetsi trailhead.
Bloomington’s Petroglyph Park
Bloomington’s Petroglyph Park is a small park meant to preserve the petroglyphs in the middle of an ordinary neighborhood. Native Americans visited and
Hiking Southern Utah: The mysterious Winchester Hills
Winchester Hills, while better known as a quiet subdivision off State Route 18 and east of Snow Canyon State Park, is also an interesting, slightly mysterious area of land