Round Trip Distance: 40 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5981 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: 39.42793, -112.23677
Fee: none
Attractions: pictographs
The Fool Creek Pictographs are located in the Fishlake National Forest between Leamington and Oak City, Utah. The easy to get to site includes 20 or so pictographs done in several shades of red and orange paint.
For turn-by-turn directions to the pictographs enter 39.42793, -112.23677 into your driving app. If your driving app defaults to the Fool Creek Road drag it over to the Fool Canyon Road. The Fool Creek Road will get you there but it is a slower 4WD route. The signed turnoff to the Fool Canyon Road is on UT-125, 4.5 miles south of Leamington, or 8.1 miles north of Oak City. After following the Fool Canyon Road for about 2 miles it will cross a cattle guard.
About 0.9 miles past the cattle guard there is a fork in the road where you will want to go to the right.
In another 1.2 miles you will arrive at the pictographs which are behind a chain link fence right beside the road. There is no missing them. During dry conditions most 2WD highway vehicles can make it all the way to the site if they have just a little bit of ground clearance. All others can make it within an hundred yards or so before needing to park.
Other than a few of the images that are up high on the cliff it is easy enough to get closeup photos.
Most of the images are geometrical designs.
This image is down close to the ground.
So is this one.
Here is a nice anthropomorphic figure that someone scrawled graffiti over. Behind the 'S' and 'C' are what look like footprints.
Here is an orange colored sheep and an image that brings to mind 5 people in a hot tub.
Here are a few other images.
If you would like to see them for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
