Poison Ivy Ruin

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Round Trip Distance: 1.7 miles
Difficulty: Difficult
Elevation: 5668 - 6016 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 2 hrs.
Trailhead: Kachina Bridge
Fee: none
Attractions: ruin, rock art

Poison Ivy Ruin is a name that we are giving to an unlisted site in Natural Bridges National Monument west of Blanding, Utah. All that is left of the ruin are some wall remnants but there are other things of interest like pictographs, grinding slicks, sharpening grooves, and some of the type of material that was used for making sleeping mats.

Atomic Rock

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 350 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5992 - 6002 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: UT-95 MM 80.8
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

Atomic Rock is a large boulder that is located on the outskirts of the Natural Bridges National Monument west of Blanding, Utah. Petroglyphs decorate each side of the boulder including its upper sloping surfaces. The various images appear to have been etched over a long period of time as though the boulder was either an annual gathering place or along a migratory route.

Big Foot Ruins

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 2.6 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5990 - 6121 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins.
Trailhead: Owachomo Bridge
Fee: $20/vehicle
Attractions: cliff dwellings

The Big Foot Ruins are located in the Natural Bridges National Monument west of Blanding, Utah. The interesting cliff dwellings are tucked away beneath a low alcove a little above the streambed in Tuwa Canyon. Granaries, a storage cist, living rooms, a kiva and a few faint pictographs can all be found at the site.

Kachina Bridge Ruin

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 2.8 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5633 - 6005 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 1 hr. 30 mins.
Trailhead: Kachina Bridge
Fee: $20/vehicle
Attractions: cliff dwelling, rock art

The Kachina Bridge Ruin is located in the Natural Bridges National Monument west of Blanding, Utah near Kachina Bridge and the confluence of White Canyon and Armstrong Canyon. The ruin includes an interesting circular structure that has pictographs painted on its interior wall. Numerous petroglyphs and pictographs cover the back wall of the alcove in which the ruin sits while many boulders beneath the overhang are also etched with petroglyphs and display deep grooves where things like seeds and corn were ground.

The Shoe

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 2.6 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5771 - 6075 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 2 hrs. 45 mins.
Trailhead: Owachomo Bridge
Fee: $20/vehicle
Attractions: cliff dwellings, pictographs

Located in Armstrong Canyon in the Natural Bridges National Monument west of Blanding, Utah is a prominent rock formation called 'The Shoe'. On a ledge below The Shoe overlooking Armstrong Canyon is built a small Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling. Along with the ruins there is also a large panel of pictographs.