Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel / Rock Art / Petroglyph / San Rafael Swell In South-Central Utah.

Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel / Rock Art / Petroglyph / San Rafael Swell In South-Central Utah.
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The Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel is an example of rock art, located in Buckhorn Draw in the San Rafael Swell in central Utah, approximately four miles north of the San Rafael campground and bridge.
Primarily a Barrier Canyon Style panel, there are a few later petroglyphs of Fremont culture origin as well. In many cases the Fremont painted figures on top of the older Barrier Canyon ones.
The route up Buckhorn Draw was part of the Old Spanish Trail. As a result of the relatively large number of people passing by, the panel was repeatedly vandalized and marked with graffiti over the years. In 1996 the State of Utah and Emery County restored the panel as part of the state's centennial celebration.
Evidence of Native American cultures, including the Fremont, Paiute, and Ute, is common throughout the San Rafael Swell in the form of pictograph and petroglyph panels. An example is the Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel, with rock art left by the Barrier Canyon Culture and the Fremont Culture. From about 1776 to the mid-1850s the Old Spanish Trail trade route passed through (or just north of) the Swell. In the past 150 years, areas of the Swell have been used for the grazing of sheep and cattle, as well as for uranium mining. Many of the gravel roads in the interior of the swell were originally used to service the uranium mining activities. Although surrounded by the communities of Price, Green River, Hanksville, Ferron, Castle Dale, and Huntington, the Swell itself does not support permanent residents.
The Swell has been used by Hollywood filmmakers as a location setting for alien planets, including the Planet Vulcan in the 2009 film Star Trek and the alien world in Galaxy Quest.
Helpful links and information:
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BLM - Price Field Office
125 S 600 W
Price, UT 84501
Phone: [phone]
Department of Natural Resources Library
1594 West North Temple
P.O. Box 146100
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100
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Canyonlands Natural History Association
3031 South Highway 181
Moab, Utah 84532
1-800-840-8978
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[@ShelleeGraham]

Those ancient pictographs are wonderfully mysterious looking, with the elongated bodies and dark red pigment.

[@fireboxstove]

It really is fascinating!

[@asecondisahiccup]

Great video of my 3 favorite subjects-- children, dogs and pictographs. On my bucket list. Thanks for the video.

[@fireboxstove]

Thanks Susan.

[@MightyCamperJohn]

I love that place and miss our many trips to the Swell! Thanks for the video of your adventures.

[@fireboxstove]

Absolutely my pleasure. Thanks for commenting.

[@Mountainwalker64]

The Swell is a great place to go.... We try to hit it in the spring when is still cold here in Idaho.

[@fireboxstove]

We have a few standard spots we like to hit but I think we've just scratched the surface of the swells awesomeness. Have you explored the Black Box area at all? I'd really like to go.

[@WanderingBeast]

What a terrific place, Its on my list to visit for sure

[@fireboxstove]

It's a beautiful place and it's not at all crowded. We had a big grove of cottonwoods next to the river completely to ourselves on the Labor day weekend. Thanks for the comment!

[@Mountainwalker64]

We have done some hiking there, but only a bit. I have a friend that lives in Helper, so he has acted as a guide and we have only scratched the surface of the area.

[@christophermckellar1352]

Very nice! Thanks. Good music. What is it?

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