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Jul 04 2025
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Williamson Road Petroglyphs, AZ 
Williamson Road Petroglyphs, AZ
 
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While wasting time on the internet, I came across a study on an area northwest of Prescott. There were four sites I was looking for but only found one.

The study showed the site, I found, to be the largest of the four sites. Most of the rocks in this area are not good for petroglyphs. When I saw the dark slab, I expected to find a petroglyph site(first photo in photoset).
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Jun 22 2025
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In Nowhere in Prescott NF, AZ 
In Nowhere in Prescott NF, AZ
 
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Yesterday I took a trip out to the Prescott NF. My friend visited a petroglyph site in the national forest about 5 years ago. He had no track. 70 miles later on the dirt roads, we came to some powerlines(first photo in photoset) and we were at the site. One of the nicest sites I had seen for awhile.

As we viewed this site, my friend/guide said that he was told that there was another site in the area. So as we explored site one, he went off looking for another site. Eureka, he found the other site which was better than the first site.
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Apr 30 2025
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Queen Valley, AZ 
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Quick outing today. Took the jeep out for a test run. She's been out of service for several week . We were tracking down an electical short. Test drive was good on a rocky road off of the 60.

Had to go look at something while I was out. I remember a short .2 mile hike to a great panel off of Queen Valley Road. Beautiful panel.
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Jan 28 2024
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Black Mesa, AZ 
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Decided to hike the flat area of the mesa between I17 and the Agua Fria.

Alot harder than I anticipated since about 60% of the time the grass was eye level. I did have a little help so I knew approximately where to go. Found several BRM/Slicks. Found several simple petroglyph but really had good luck at two spots.
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Nov 24 2023
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Az V:5:56 Asm, AZ 
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Went to plan B today. Hiking buddy told me at 6am that he had to work. I only sat in front of his house for 10 minutes before I got the news.

Plan B was an easy plan. Go out to find "ONE" petroglyph panel somewhere under the powerlines. Drove Cherry Creek Road to FR3271. On the hike back to my vehicle, I found it. :y:
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Oct 14 2023
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Cherry Creek Road, AZ 
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A few months ago, I did one of my crazy internet searches to the nth degree. Wham Bam, I found something really cool. This internet site had a story and pictures of a site in AZ. This is what I read,

Years ago, roaming a remote section of desert, far from any trails and heavily protected by Crucifixion Thorn trees and catclaw, I stumbled upon a series of cliff faces covered in petroglyphs. After contacting U of A and the Tonto National Forest, it was determined that the rock art on these walls was mostly Archaic in style and execution, particularly the deep-cut ones; that would make them at least 2,000 and possibly as much as 6-8,000 years old!

A few months ago I went out looking for this site. At the end of the day, I found one panel that was shown on the internet site. I went out again this week and found many panels. My photoset has some of the highlights of my trip. This site is on Cherry Creek Road.
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Sep 17 2023
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Fr9025, AZ 
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Well if you are familiar with the Perry Mesa, you have driven FR9025 on your way to Perry Tank. These are petroglyphs hidden in those grassy flats and rolling hills. Some sites are a few hundred yards from the road and others are as little as 20 yards off the road.
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Sep 17 2023
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Fr269, AZ 
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I've travelled many times up to the Perry Mesa on FR269. Checked out some small sites off the road. Shaman's Rock is the furthest at about 100 yards but the others I visited were no more that 40 yards off the road. You can't see these from the road so we usually drive on by.
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Sep 05 2023
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Pfnp, AZ 
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Spent 1.5 days along the Lithodendron Wash, Petrified Forest National Park. Had plans to explore several areas but I found a petroglyph site that just had to much to see.
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Jun 10 2023
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Winslow Glyph Hunt Revisited, AZ 
Winslow Glyph Hunt Revisited, AZ
 
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Hansenaz is always one step ahead of me. I had this Winslow site on my radar for some time but once I saw he made the trip I had to go out there, [ photoset ]

After the trip, I contacted Hansenaz. We exchanged tracks. He came in from the west and I came in from the east. We walked about 60% of the same tracks.

I happened to find a point on this trip. Other than that there was no other cultural material in the area (at least I could not find anything else). Fun day.
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May 14 2023
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Pefo 88, AZ 
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Spent two days at the petrified forest. This photoset was day two, PEFO 88 sites thru Martha's Butte. Martha's Butte site is not a large site but it has several gems. There is a beautiful flat panel I was wanting to photograph again. Just difficult to get enough height to get a good angle on the panel. I was successful this time.

PEFO 88 has Site 11 thru 16. Those are the main petroglyph sites in a study I read. I believe PEFO 11 is the starving man site. Found alot of petroglyphs but I only will show the highlights.
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Dec 11 2022
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66 male
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Las Guijas, AZ 
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First I have to thank Pivo. I told him my sad story, how I looked for the Las Guijas site last year. He helped since he had already been to the site, [ photoset ] . Thanks again. I learned two thing, one, I was about 4 miles from the site on my last trip and, two, don’t believe everything on the internet(haha). Ya my info was way off.
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Dec 03 2022
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Westside Lake Pleasant, AZ 
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Today I went to the westside of Lake Pleasant. I finally found a petroglyph panel I have been looking for, for years. I am sure my "rock idol", Hansenaz, didn't find this panel because it was in someone's backyard. I had read that the panel (boulder) was moved to the bottom of a terrace(by someone). So that's where I have been looking. Now it sits on the south end of the lake near a park building. The panel use to sit north of Indian Mesa Ruin before it was stolen.

After visiting the petroglyph panel, I went north to visit a site I had been to about 10years ago. I dont know the name of the site but I call it Cow Creek Site. Now that I am older, I did not want to hike the hilly terrain. I was able to get the jeep within .25miles of the site.

Tried to revisit a third site today but it started to sprinkle and I did not want to get caught out in the open with a storm approaching.
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Nov 13 2022
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Northwest Arizona, AZ 
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Spent two and quarter days in Northwestern Arizona. Thursday, I went to Davis Camp Site. Friday, I went to Petroglyph Canyon and Ringbolt Petroglyph Site. Saturday, I went to Union Pass Site.

Davis Camp Site was a stroll in the park. No really, it was a stroll in the park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area. I’ve been here before but pictures were lousy due to the sun angle. I was waiting for my friend to arrive in Bullhead City so I went to Lake Mead National Recreation Area. I arrived at the perfect time. I had 15 minutes of low west orange sun, then slowly the sun faded away which gave me some different light. The low orange light worked the best and I saw a really nice petroglyph that I didn’t see last time. Glad I made it back.

On Friday we drove up towards Hoover Dam to Petroglyph canyon. Never been to this part of Arizona so It nice to see. Got a view of Lake Mead. I could see the blue lake and the white dry lake also. I got a picture of it in my photoset. We spent so much time at Petroglyph Canyon that we didn’t have enough time to find the Ringbolt site. The ringbolt site is closer to Hoover Dam. We hiked around to get familar with the area. We hiked to the top of a hill that gave us a great view. Next time, I will give it a full day so we can take our time to get to the site.

On Saturday, we looked for the Union Pass Site. My intel was that it was near the spring. We found the spring but all the rock were not good for petroglyphs. The ridge to the north that runs northeast is covered with nice dark boulders. We search and search and could not find anything. There are still a lot of areas to explore, so I will have to wait for my next trip.
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Oct 28 2022
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Payson Area, AZ 
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All the archeological sites that I found are within a 15-20mile radius of Payson. Taken alot of hikes to find these sites. Some of the sites were found while doing a walkabout, others were found knowing the general area where I would find something. Once took Hansenaz with me to find a site. Unfortunately we found nothing on that hike.
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Jul 10 2022
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Flagstaff Area, AZ 
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The last time I was at this Flagstaff site was back in 2016. I thought I had seen everything but I found out there was a great loci that I walked past in 2016. I brought some extra sets of eyes on this trip so I would not miss anything. We found two new loci.

The photoset starts with the main site that actually has sign now that say "petroglyph point". If you want to see more you still have to do some scrambling along the cliffs. Petroglyph point only shows one giant panel. We found two new sites north of the main canyon site. Then we found the site I was looking for. To my suprise there was signage about the panel. There were also two cameras at this site. Very nice waterbird panel.

One cheeseburger, fries, and drink later, we were on the west side of Flagstaff at 8500ft to do our second hike of the day. We followed a jeep trail to a prehistoric/historic site to a spring. We found the site that is easy to find since the trail leads you to the points of interest. We look at the prehistoric site first. This site had petroglyphs and pictographs. Really enjoyed this site. We also found a historic shelter that was a small cave in the site of hill near the spring.
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Jul 09 2022
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Black Mesa, AZ 
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Hiked a side canyon on Black Mesa north of Black canyon City. On this day, I found 10-15 site. Some sites were just a single Petroglyph or a pottery scatter, but found some large petroglyph sites, and large habitat sites.
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May 29 2022
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Wilhoit to Stanton, AZ 
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Did this hike a few months ago when it was cooler.

One site, was near the town of Stanton AZ. Drive to Congress then turn east. It's a small quiet town. This was my second trip to find the Stanton Site. My first trip was unsuccessful. Then one day I did a internet search using some different keyword and review everything to the end of the search. Along the way I found some blog. This lady was saying she lived in Stanton for 15 years and found out she had been driving past a petroglyph site for years. She gave a brief description and also stated that they can be seen from the road. Found them!

The two forts were found doing an aerial view around the Hassayampa. I did have some info that there were some hilltop forts out there. A general description (again) help me narrow down my search. I was able to find the forts on GE.

The last site I visited, I got some coords of a lone petroglyph out in the middle of nowhere on the Hassayampa River. The last picture in the photoset is the lone petroglyph.

That was a rewarding weekend
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Jan 01 2022
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Few week ago I decide to check out a ruin near Maverick Butte. Drove FR1099. I checked out the ruin which was uneventful then decided to walk around and explore. What luck, I found a petroglyph site that was unknown to me. I know Hansenaz has walked this area before but I could not find anything in the Hansenaz archives. It was a real nice site hidden behind some trees tucked in along a long cliff wall.
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TGIF in AZ, AZ 
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I found a photo of a beautiful pictograph in Sedona. The search was on. I found everything I could and was able to narrow down the area where the pictograph was located. I arrived in the hiking area early Friday morning. My hiking buddy and I looked around. He said what is that white thing up there( in the distance, thanks for a bright morning sun). I laughed and said, that is the sign that says this is an archaeological area. You found the site. I dont know the name of the new site, new to me.

After hitting the first site, we did the tourist thing at Palatki and Honanki. My hiking buddy had never been to those sites so I said what the heck. I had my reasons for going. At the end of the tour at Palatki, we spoke to the tour guide and asked question to test her knowledge. I asked about the OTHER pictographs in this area. Her eyes told me where to look. I forgot to thank her. We could easily see where one site was located because she said they were photographing the site. We could see some scaffolding in an area along the cliff. Then I took photos with my telephoto lens on the way out. When I got home I looked at the photos and could see the white shield.

At Honanki there is a cave to the east that is suppose to have a snake pictograph. It's a short hike up. Yes there is one long snake pictographs.

Snake Gulch in two week.
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