Willow Wash Petroglyphs

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Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 2193 - 2231 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: 35.20524, -115.87202
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Willow Wash Petroglyphs are located just off of the Kelbaker Road in the Mojave National Preserve south of Baker, California. The site includes more than a dozen petroglyphs etched upon basalt cliffs.

Vontrigger Spring Pictographs

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Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 3500 - 3559 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: 35.05332, -115.14770
Turnoff: 35.05152, -115.16370
Fee: none
Attractions: pictographs, rock shelter

The Vontrigger Spring Pictographs are located in the Mojave National Preserve northwest of Needles, California. The site includes some faint red pictographs, a scenic cave, and a rock shelter that are all within 1,000 feet of the trailhead.

Hole in the Wall Petroglyphs

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Round Trip Distance: 0.64 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4210 - 4236 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Hole in the Wall
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Hole in the Wall Petroglyphs are located in the Mojave National Preserve northwest of Needles, California. The site includes numerous faint petroglyphs on slowly eroding boulders and at least one rock shelter.

Indian Well Petroglyphs

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Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 3960 - 3998 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hrs 30 mins.
Trailhead: 35.14567, -115.15907
Mojave Road turnoff: 35.13859, -115.18691
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

The well known Indian Well Petroglyphs, a.k.a. Lanfair Buttes, are located in the Mojave National Preserve northwest of Needles, California. The well was a major source of water in the vast parched Mojave Desert from ancient times to the era of the Mojave Road and Government Road. Hundreds of petroglyphs can be found on the boulder covered hillside all around the well.

Rock Spring Petroglyphs

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Round Trip Distance: 1.1 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4771 - 4908 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins.
Trailhead: 35.15521, -115.33494
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs, historic ruins

Rock Spring is located off of the old Mojave Road in the vast Mojave National Preserve northwest of Needles, California. Being a key desert spring it has been visited probably for hundreds of years by native people who left signs of their passing on some of the boulders in the way of petroglyphs.