Thursday, August 16, 2012

McConkie Ranch (Indian Petroglyphs)

 Recently I found out that just down the road about 5 miles from our home is one of the biggest collections of Indian Petroglyphs.  The land is all private, but the land owners allow access onto the land and have nice developed trails and signs all along the way. 
 The parking lot was lined with old elk and deer antlers and had a bathroom and little shack with water in a fridge.  They go off the honor system and ask for $2 donation per car and $1 per water.
 There were two different trails/loops  to take and from end to end of each loop was maybe a mile or more.  We took a bunch of pictures so here are some of our favorites.



Head Hunter


Big Foot


Bear

Twins

Family
UFO crop circles?




 Below is the famous 3 kings panel.  It took us a minute to find them on the mountain side since they are way up high on the cliff.  The picture below is looking right at them.
 These are the 3 kings zoomed in a bit.
 And finally zoomed in more for a close up.  These kings are life sized but you can't tell until you zoom way in on them.  These were by far our favorites.





2 comments:

Todd M said...

Looks like fun. See even back then they ufo sightings.

Ev said...

Had no idea they were there! Those are Amazing! What a beautiful family! <3