Round Trip Distance: 0.6 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5902 - 6110 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: 38.57748, -112.34166
Fee: $10/vehicle
Attractions: petroglyphs
The Alma Christensen trail is located in the Fremont Indian State Park west of Richfield, Utah. Besides the hiking trail, which leads up into the Fishlake National Forest above Clear Creek, there are also several panels of petroglyphs near the trailhead.
Fremont Indian State Park is about 21 miles west of Richfield at I-70 Exit 17. The well signed Alma Christensen trail is on the left about a half mile before the Visitor Center where you will need to proceed first to pay the requisite entrance fee.
The Alma Christensen trail, if you choose to hike it, is interpretive in nature. We hiked it ourselves but didn't have the guide that goes along with the numbered posts.
Those looking for petroglyphs will find some on the cliffs just to the east of the trailhead.
The anthropomorphic figures are of the easily recognizable Fremont Style.
There are some really nice petroglyphs here that are unfortunately really hard to see. On the lower right are some concentric circles with an anthropomorphic figure in the middle. Above that are one of those coming and going sheep with a head at each end. To the left of that is a large anthropomorphic figure with horns. Elsewhere there are 5 or 6 more sheep and a large hand.
Further down the cliff is an even larger panel of petroglyphs that is even harder to see.
It is the weathering away of the patina that makes the images so hard to see.
We wondered whether when the images were first created if the patina had a perfect smoothness that would have made the cliff a more desirable surface upon which to place the images.
If you would like to explore it for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
