This hike in the Lower Butler Wash Road hiking area in Bears Ears National Monument takes you to see the Wolfman petroglyph, an amazing and well-known ancient rock art panel with plenty of other unique figures to see.

• Pay close attention to the directions, the exit point from the canyon rim to the trail along the canyon wall is easy to miss
• Dogs allowed
• Hiking poles
• Binoculars

• 1.0 mile total out and back to the Wolfman rock art panels
• 2.0 miles total out and back if you continue to the ruins

From the parking area follow the well-defined sandy trail heading toward the canyon you can see to the west.

The sandy trail becomes slickrock and more difficult to follow, there may be a few rock cairns to guide you, head directly to the canyon rim.

You should be looking directly across the canyon at some ruins in an alcove under the rim on the other side. Below is Butler Wash, the same wash you cross at almost every trailhead on the hikes up and down Lower Butler Wash Road, however here is is a true rock-walled canyon instead of a shallow sandy wash.

The ruins on the opposite side of the Butler Wash Canyon

Standing on the canyon rim facing the ruins turn left and head south along the rim, look for a bench below you that’s starting to head southward downhill.

The crux of finding the Wolfman rock art panels is following this bench down to a notch in the rocks that then leads to a rocky ramp running down the face of the canyon wall.

The notch you need to find and go through

The shield panel

The eclectic and mysterious petroglyph panel

The ruins on the other side of the canyon

There’s a trail that leads off to the right and goes around the cliff face but doesn’t seem to go anywhere or lead to anything

• All sites on the Lower Butler Wash road can be reached from the north from Highway 95, or the south from Highway 163. The road is a good quality dirt road that cars can traverse.

From the North

• Exit south from Highway 95 at ( 37.534608, -109.620771 ) onto the un-named dirt road
• Continue for 0.3 miles (passing the dinosaur footprints trailhead).
• At the T, turn right onto Lower Butler Wash road (country road 262), and continue south for 11 miles.
• Turn right at the Y at ( 37.392207, -109.618686 ) and continue south for 9 miles.
• The turn-off for the short spur road to the parking area for the Wolfman rock art panels from Lower Butler wash road is at ( 37.276258, -109.641416 ), just south of the fence that intersects Lower Butler Wash Road

From the South

• Exit north from Highway 163 at ( 37.264230, -109.641849 )
• Follow Lower Butler Wash road north for 1 mile.
• The turn-off for the short spur road to the parking area for the Wolfman rock art panels from Lower Butler wash road is at ( 37.276258, -109.641416 ), just south of the fence that intersects Lower Butler Wash Road

From Lower Butler Wash Road, follow this short spur road to the parking area