Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5590 - 5613 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: hr.
Petroglyphs trailhead: 39.97878, -108.80228
Pictographs trailhead: 39.97662, -108.80573
Fee: none
Attractions: rock art
Big Horse Draw is located in the Canyon Pintado area south of Rangely, Colorado. The big attraction in the draw is the Big Horse Draw Pictograph Site. Enroute to that site there are also a couple of petroglyph panels within about 800 feet of the road.
For turn-by-turn direction enter 39.97662, -108.80573 into your driving app. From Rangely you will be directed south onto Highway 139 for 6.8 miles where you will turn right onto County Road 105.
For the petroglyphs there isn't a pullout so the best you can do is get over to the side as far as possible in a wide spot in the road. A good wide place is at the 1.75 mile point from Highway 139.
From there you can hike at an angle toward the point of a cliff right above a deep wash where the first panel of petroglyphs are located.
The right side of the panel looks like a map. The left side has these various other shapes.
To get to the second panel of petroglyphs you have to cross a deep gully. There are several deer trails that make it pretty easy.
In the bottom left of this photo, where there is little or no patina, there is what might be an anthropomorphic figure.
Another quarter of a mile up Big Horse Draw there is a short side road on the right that leads an hundred yards or so over to the cliff where there are some pictographs protected by a fence.
The main group of images if made up of a half dozen anthropomorphic figures.
Each figure has a unique head and headdress. All of them have a little white paint mixed in with the red ochre color.
The headdress on this one is made up of dots that are really hard to see. It also might have white earrings.
Fee: none
Attractions: rock art
Big Horse Draw is located in the Canyon Pintado area south of Rangely, Colorado. The big attraction in the draw is the Big Horse Draw Pictograph Site. Enroute to that site there are also a couple of petroglyph panels within about 800 feet of the road.
For turn-by-turn direction enter 39.97662, -108.80573 into your driving app. From Rangely you will be directed south onto Highway 139 for 6.8 miles where you will turn right onto County Road 105.
For the petroglyphs there isn't a pullout so the best you can do is get over to the side as far as possible in a wide spot in the road. A good wide place is at the 1.75 mile point from Highway 139.
From there you can hike at an angle toward the point of a cliff right above a deep wash where the first panel of petroglyphs are located.
The right side of the panel looks like a map. The left side has these various other shapes.
To get to the second panel of petroglyphs you have to cross a deep gully. There are several deer trails that make it pretty easy.
In the bottom left of this photo, where there is little or no patina, there is what might be an anthropomorphic figure.
Another quarter of a mile up Big Horse Draw there is a short side road on the right that leads an hundred yards or so over to the cliff where there are some pictographs protected by a fence.
The main group of images if made up of a half dozen anthropomorphic figures.
Each figure has a unique head and headdress. All of them have a little white paint mixed in with the red ochre color.
The headdress on this one is made up of dots that are really hard to see. It also might have white earrings.
The lower figure has a white head with maybe some white feathers.
Further off to the right are two more images that are almost completely faded away. A surprising amount of little details, like necklaces, can be seen when you zoom in on the photo.
