Round Trip Distance: 1,000 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4977 - 5005 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: 40.34878, -112.00920
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs
The Eagle Mountain Petroglyphs are located within a housing subdivision in the bedroom community of Eagle Mountain, Utah. The petroglyphs are found upon small boulders that have been enclosed by metal fences for their protection. Most of the images are very faint and mostly indiscernible.
For turn-by-turn directions to the trailhead enter either 40.34878, -112.00920 or 'Three Petroglyphs Trail' into your driving app. Although someone has added the Three Petroglyphs Trail marker to Google Maps they seem to have done it in ignorance as it doesn't really describe the site. They may have had it confused with the Three Warriors site that is nearby. As can be seen in this photo a small parking area has been included in the development of the subdivision specifically for people visiting the petroglyphs.
By being enclosed in fences the petroglyphs couldn't be much easier to find. There is a small group right in front of the parking area and a larger group off to the right.
Looking closely you can pick out a lot of anthropomorphic images.
This is one of the more obvious ones that looks like a little man with horns that is accompanied by a few other shapes.
Most of the images look like they might date back to the archaic period (c. 1500-4000 years ago).
Many of the petroglyphs, although pecked deep into the surface of the rocks, are obscured by lichens.
This particular rock had a human like figure on one corner and a lot of wavy lines.
Here it looks like a wide groove or dish was smoothed into the rock with some petroglyphs pecked in afterwards. The smooth part doesn't really look like a grinding slick but perhaps it was or maybe it is entirely natural.
A few images of deer and bighorn sheep are also present.
