Mill Creek II

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5965 - 5978 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: 38.56928, -112.35240
Fee: $10/vehicle
Attractions: petroglyphs, pictographs

Mill Creek II is a site in the Fremont Indian State Park west of Richfield, Utah. Both petroglyphs and pictographs can be found at the site.

For turn-by-turn directions to the trailhead enter 38.56928, -112.35240 into your driving app. The trailhead is nothing more than a good place to pull over out of the way. After taking I-70 Exit 17 turn left onto the gravel road and follow it for less than a half mile. The rock art will be on the right before you reach the Fishlake National Forest sign. There are actually 2 places along the road that are a little separated. One is near the sign mentioned and the other is back where the point of the cliffs comes close to the road.

The first panel of petroglyphs is easy to spot from the road. (The red circle that we made on the left is the last panel that we showed at the Mill Creek I site.)

We only had to scramble a little way up the slope below the cliff to be close enough to get good photos with our zoom lens. Besides the large Fremont anthropomorphic figure there are several more smaller ones and quite a few sheep images.

The next 2 panels are back at the point of the cliffs that is close to the road. The circle on the left is some pictographs and the circle on the right is a nice panel of petroglyphs. Both are pretty high up on the cliff.

The pictographs are scaled over with some type of deposit that obscures them somewhat.

It is hard to tell whether this is an anthropomorphic figure or something else.

What the images beneath it are isn't easy to make out either.

The petroglyphs to the right still show up pretty well for the most part. If you count the wavy horns, and other obvious images, you will discover a half dozen interesting looking anthropomorphic figures.

There are also various concentric circles, spirals, and other dots and circles.

The painted hands are a little harder to find. They are partially hidden on the cliffs to the right behind a tree.

A pair of binoculars makes it easier to spot rock art from the roads along both Mill Creek and Clear Creek. There is enough of it that it takes some time to sort out what you've already seen and what is new. We marked over 30 sites on the map that accompanies this post but there are actually quite a few more places than that. Some of what we marked are for groups of panels.

As far as the ones along Mill Creek go, if you would like to see them for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.