Tulare Painted Rock Pictographs

GPS planning file and map.

The Tulare Painted Rock Pictographs are located east of Porterville, California on the Tule River Indian Reservation. The site, which is marked on some topo maps, has some nice pictographs that include a grizzly bear, rattlesnake, and centipede.

Google Satellite View.

Caltopo scanned topo map.

For turn-by-turn directions enter 36.04354, -118.74076 into your driving app. From Porterville you will be directed east on CA-190 for 5.6 miles where you will turn right onto Country Road J42, Indian Reservation Drive. Continuing for another 14.2 miles there will be a sign on the right marking the site. From the parking area the trail will lead to a very large boulder where the pictographs will be on the south side.

Included with this post is the GPS file and map that we plan to use for our first visit. If you don't want to wait for us to get around to it feel free to try the GPS file and map for yourself. With no guarantee, of course, but they most often prove valuable for us.

Download GPS planning file: