Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 7442 - 7488 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: 43.44720, -109.54134
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs
The Ring Lake and Torrey Lake Petroglyphs are located along the Trail Lake Road south of Dubois, Wyoming. Many of the boulders along the road have petroglyphs of the Dinwoody Tradition.
For turn-by-turn directions enter 43.44720, -109.54134 into your driving app. From Dubois you will be directed south on US 26/287 for 3.7 miles where you will turn right onto the Trail Lake Road. Just past the 6 mile mark of the Trail Lake Road there is a road on the left that leads to the Ring Lake Ranch. We parked off to the side out of the way at that intersection and used that for the trailhead.
What we labeled as P2 are some petroglyphs on a couple of boulders a little across the road.
They aren't very exciting but they are there none the less.
Further up on the hillside is a boulder we labeled P3 that has a good Dinwoody style figure on it.
P4 has a few more figures that show a lot of weathering.
This is a large figure that we labeled P5.
P1 is further to the east on a boulder that sits out in the open by itself not too far from the road. It has a figure with a mouth similar to that of the Sheep Eater except that here the sheep is above its head rather than in its mouth.
P6 is a boulder on the north side of the road that is on private property. We were able to take this photo from the road using a zoom lens. It has a nice Dinwoody style figure with intricate patterns.
P7 is on the south side of the road on a hill above Torrey Lake. It is also on private property. The great distance from the road and the angle of the boulder make it hard to photograph but it does have a very nice image on it.
We read that there are about 175 petroglyphs on boulders along this 3 mile stretch of the Trail Lake Road. What we found were all within a 2 mile stretch of the road so we apparently missed some of what is there.
If you would like to see them for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
If you would like to see them for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
