Canyon Pintado National Historic District Rock Art: State Bridge Recreation Site

A cairn found in Cohab Canyon, Capitol Reef National Park.

Frank and Anne's Canyon Country Hiking and Camping Notebook.

Canyon Pintado National Historic District

Campsite

This page contains a discussion of the rock art found within the Canyon Pintado National Historic District, at the State Bridge Recreation Site. All photographs are from our our personal collection. If you'd like to see more rock art from this location, or if you'd like to see higher resolution or larger images, send us an e-mail message and we'll see what we can do.

Rock Art

State Bridge Recreation Site

The Canyon Pintado National Historic District is made up of several individual petroglyph and pictograph sites scattered over several miles, both in Canyon Pintado proper, among the canyons along the Dragonfly Road to the west, and east and west of Rangely just off of Highway 64. See our Personal Notes for more details on the State Bridge Recreation Site.

See the following pages for more rock art from the Canyon Pintado National Historic District:

For more information on how to preserve and protect these priceless historic treasures:

See American Antiquities Act of 1906.
See Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.
Archaeological Resources Protection Act Hotline: 800-227-7286.
See Archaeological Site Etiquette.

The small panel of petroglyphs at this location were difficult to see. Part of the issue was the light color of the rock, its apparent soft nature, and the low angle of the sun on the day of our visit. In addition, we could only spot a few images high up on cliff face.

It's difficult to identify this image. It may be an anthropomorph, but I'm just not sure. What at first appear to be legs actually make a box beneath the image. Your guess on this one is as good as mine.

	These marks, although not recognizable as anything identifiable, were interesting in that they were made in an area that had a reddish brown patina covering its rough surface. The marks were obviously deliberate, but either the rest of it has fallen away from the cliff face, or it was never completed.

This photo, of the same area of the panel as that in the photo at the top of this page, was taken under slightly different lighting conditions. All of these photos required the use of a zoom lens to capture anything.

In this image, though, there does appear to be some sort of anthropomorphic figure to the left. Otherwise, years of erosion have obliterated and deepened the other marks to the point where they are not recognizable.

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These photos have been resized and manipulated in Photoshop to give the best representation of the image. Some color distortion is inevitable. If you would like to see higher quality versions of these shots, or if you would like to use these images for any purpose, please contact us and we would be glad to help if we can.

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This page was last updated Friday, June 12, 2009

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