Newspaper Rock Near Monticello, Utah #2
Photo taken in early April, 2018--it is an image comprised of 5 photos, stitched together into a panorama. This is a closeup of a section of this huge panel (you can see most of it here at www.flickr.com/photos/minnesotaphotography/40796586844/in...).
From www.americansouthwest.net: Formerly a state park, Newspaper Rock is now designated a State Historical Monument, and is situated along the relatively well-traveled access road into the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park, 12 miles from US 191 and 30 miles from the park boundary. Since December 2016, this area is part of Bears Ears National Monument. The 200 square foot rock is a part of the vertical Wingate sandstone cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon, and is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings) - one of the largest, best preserved and easily accessed groups in the Southwest. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human, animal, material and abstract forms, and to date no-one has been able to fully interpret their meaning.
Newspaper Rock Near Monticello, Utah #2
Photo taken in early April, 2018--it is an image comprised of 5 photos, stitched together into a panorama. This is a closeup of a section of this huge panel (you can see most of it here at www.flickr.com/photos/minnesotaphotography/40796586844/in...).
From www.americansouthwest.net: Formerly a state park, Newspaper Rock is now designated a State Historical Monument, and is situated along the relatively well-traveled access road into the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park, 12 miles from US 191 and 30 miles from the park boundary. Since December 2016, this area is part of Bears Ears National Monument. The 200 square foot rock is a part of the vertical Wingate sandstone cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon, and is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings) - one of the largest, best preserved and easily accessed groups in the Southwest. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human, animal, material and abstract forms, and to date no-one has been able to fully interpret their meaning.