We travel to Queen Creek, the White Tank Mountains and South Mountain to find ancient petroglyphs. We travel to Queen Creek, South Mountain and the White Tank Mountains to hike trails with petroglyphs ...

The email caught my eye as we drove home from Death Valley months ago: “Fall Petroglyph Tour dates, now available from the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest!” The promise was a chance to see “the richest ...

The first thing you notice when you arrive at Painted Rock is that someone was pulling your leg. None of the rocks is painted. Hundreds of petroglyphs are etched or pecked into the basalt boulders.

Some art is best viewed by plopping yourself down on desert gravel under a big blue sky and gazing upward. That was my approach at the Gallery in Petroglyph Canyon earlier this fall. After a ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

As it winds northward about 14 miles from just east of Camp Verde to the Sedona exit of Interstate 17, Forest Road 618 provides easy access to a couple of magnificent wilderness areas, as well as the ...

Leroy Howell scrambles up the rocks of the canyon wall and lays his eyes on what he has come to inspect: a 300-pound boulder bearing the distinct images of several bighorn sheep. Thoughtlessly -- and ...

The trails at McConkie Ranch in Dry Fork Canyon near Vernal pass by some of the most marvelous ancient rock art you can find anywhere in Utah. Characters are shown toting severed heads and ...