Ryan Creek White Pictographs

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.4 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5705 - 5794 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Ryan Creek Road
Fee: none
Attractions: pictographs

On the side of a cliff above the Ryan Creek Road, in the Triangle Mesa Area, near the Colorado/ Utah border west of Glade Park, Colorado there is a collection of white pictographs that mostly depict hunting scenes of sheep and anthropomorphic images.

Triangle Road Dinosaur Tracks

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5521 - 5685 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Triangle Road mm 4.5
Fee: none
Attractions: Dinosaur tracks

Located in Grand County Utah, about 4.5 miles west of the Colorado border, there is a large boulder near the Triangle Road, BLM 107, that has about 50 well defined sauropod dinosaur tracks. Individual groups of the tracks form 4 or 5 distinct trackways.

Fish Creek Cove

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 7247 - 7260 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 3o mins.
Trailhead: Fish Creek Cove
Fee: none
Attractions: rock art

Fish Creek Cove is an extensive rock art site that is located a short distance south of Torrey, Utah. The site includes many impressive large red, with some white, Fremont style pictographs as well as scores of petroglyphs that include many spirals, concentric circles, bighorn sheep and large warrior or shaman figures decorated with horns, necklaces, diagonal lines across the torso and waist belts.

Crescent Junction Panels

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.4 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5051 - 5075 feet
Cellphone: 1-4 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Crescent Junction
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Crescent Junction Panels are located at the base of the Little Book Cliffs about 2 miles north of Crescent Junction, Utah. Scores of petroglyphs can be found at the site scattered upon multiple surfaces of more than a half dozen different large boulders. All of the boulders are grouped within an area that is about 600 feet by 400 feet, with only slight changes in elevation between, making it kinda fun and easy to search them out. Highway vehicles without much clearance might have to park about a half mile away depending on how bad the ruts are at the time.

Grassy Trail Creek

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Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4858 - 4956 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Emery County Rd. 125
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs, ruins

Located near the confluence of Grassy Trail Creek and the Price River are quite a few nice Fremont petroglyphs on various boulders at the base of a hill. On top of the hill there are several ruins that include a large circular wall that may have served as an above ground open top kiva or other ceremonial circle. Ruins that are lower down on the hill appear to have been dwellings similar to pithouses and pueblos.