Round Trip Distance: 0.4 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 6266 - 6329 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: 37.66952, -111.64035
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs, pictographs
Site #3 in Alvey Wash is located about 8 miles south of Escalante, Utah off of the Smokey Mountain Road. Found at the site, in 3 different alcoves, are some painted hands, some cave ruins, petroglyphs, sharpening grooves, and grinding slicks.
The turnoff is 3.9 miles past Site #1 on the right hand side of the road. For turn-by-turn directions enter 37.66952, -111.64035 into your driving app.
A primitive campsite serves as the trailhead. The points of most interest are found in 3 different alcoves. The alcove on the left has a boulder with a few sharpening grooves. The middle alcove has some ruins and painted hand pictographs. The alcove on the right has some sharpening grooves, a couple of grinding slicks, and a few petroglyphs.
The middle alcove has a small wall remnant.
The surface of the rock in the alcove is slowly dissolving away and spoiling the painted images.
If inhabited during the winter the cave would have been warmed by the sun for much of the day.
The rock shelter all the way on the right has a few grinding slicks and images made from sharpening grooves.
There is also this peculiar looking anthropomorphic figure.
Next to some cupules there is an image that looks like a fern.
