
Furniture Draw Canyon
A hike through a narrow canyon, short and easy, great for families with small kids
For independent travelers who want to dig deeper
The Buckhorn Wash panels run over 100 feet behind a stone and wood fence that keeps visitors at a safe distance from the artwork.
The art is from two distinct cultures that have inhabited the area. You will see pictographs thought to have been painted by the Barrier Canyon culture at least 2000 years ago and newer petroglyphs believed to have been pecked into the rock by Fremont Indians about 1000 years ago.
The route up Buckhorn Wash was part of the Old Spanish Trail, so it was well-traveled and the artwork was well-known, as a result over the last 150 years the panels were repeatedly vandalized and marked with graffiti. But in 1996 the State of Utah undertook a massive restoration project as part of Utah’s centennial celebration. Bullet holes, scrapes, and chiseled gouges were filled in and disguised with watercolors and pastels to match the sandstone. Paint and chalk were removed with special erasers and jewelers’ tools. Today the artwork is amazing to see.
Getting to Buckhorn Wash
The swinging bridge next to the car bridge was built in 1937 by the CCC, it was once the only bridge over the San Rafael River until the 1990s, the signs at the bridge say it is the only remaining suspension bridge in Utah. Before the building of the bridge, crossing the San Rafael River was treacherous.
From the cattle guard set your odometer to zero and continue 3.8 miles to the Buckhorn Wash Panels on your right, you can’t miss it, there is a huge fenced-in area with a parking area, bathrooms, and information signs
Note
5.3 miles from the South cattle guard
Matt Warner, a cattle thief and bandit who roamed this area and when he wasn’t hiding out in Robbers Roost Canyon, took the time to write his name high up the cliff on the right-hand side of the road. It is interesting he didn’t know how to spell his first name correctly.
7.2 miles from the South cattle guard
Look for a signed pullout on the right. Take the 5-minute walk on the well-defined path toward the cliff base in front of you. There’s an obvious main rock art area and a second panel about 100 ft to the right that most people will miss the 2nd one.
8.0 miles from the South cattle guard ( 39.160508, -110.729179 )
A small pullout on the right with a sign marks the short trail ascending up one level of slick rock, follow it for two minutes and there is a dinosaur track, hard to miss, look for the circle of rocks around it.
A hike through a narrow canyon, short and easy, great for families with small kids
A short hike leads to a boulder on an overlook with hundreds of petroglyphs chipped into the desert varnish from the Fremont Culture dating back to at least 1300 AD
Once known as barrier canyon, it contains rock art that gave name to the barrier canyon style of artwork, contained in four galleries including the Great Ghost.
A beautiful slot canyon with two long, extremely narrow passages with walls up to 400 feet high.
Route finding across slick rock takes you to Wild Horse Window, an unusual grotto with a huge hole or window in the ceiling.
Three different sites in one compact area, see the controversial Black Dragon rock art, hike two adjacent canyons to see hidden arches in one and more petroglyphs in the other.
The park contains thousands of mushroom-shaped (goblins). You can walk amongst the hoo-doos, there are hiking trails and a cave on the back side of the valley called the Goblin’s Lair
A slot canyon with manageable drops, three sections of narrows, and walls that look like Swiss Cheese
A forty-mile long canyon drive with the highest concentration of rock art in the world, with an estimated 10,000 individual artworks from Archaic, Fremont, and Ute Indians
Rock art on 100 foot panels. See pictographs painted by the Barrier Canyon culture 2000 years ago and petroglyphs pecked into the rock by Fremont Indians 1000 years ago.
Called “Utah’s Little Grand Canyon”. There are multiple overlooks 1000 feet above the San Rafael River and canyons below you, each one gives you a different vista.
This dinosaur quarry contains more Jurassic dinosaur bones per cubic foot than have been reported anywhere else in the world.
Crystal Geyser is a CO2 geyser created accidentally in 1935 by an oil drilling rig.
See multiple snake pictographs and a line of dinosaur foot prints just steps from the parking lot
Significant because it contains some of the largest prehistoric painted figures in Utah. The largest image in its current condition is about 6 feet tall.
The Lone Warrior is the main feature, but there are some petroglyphs, some signatures with dates and some sharpening grooves carved into the base of the cliff to see also.
On the south side of a locomotive-shaped rock formation, are amazing Barrier Canyon Style pictographs so pristine they look like they were painted yesterday
Visit a small but picturesque arch you can walk inside of or climb right on top of
Visit Joseph Swasey’s 1921 cabin. The Swasey brothers, Joe, Sid, Rod, and Charley were some of the earliest pioneers of the San Rafael Swell and many local landmarks bear their names.
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