
Valley of Fire Petroglyph Canyon Trail
Posted by:
ggmorton
N 36° 26.397 W 114° 30.896
11S E 722743 N 4035617
A trail that has several petroglyphs.
Waymark Code: WM29MT
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2007
Views: 149
This trail leads to an area named for a renegade Indian who used the area as a hideout in the 1890's. Mouse's Tank is a natural basin in the rock where water collects after rainfalls, sometimes remaining for months. A half-mile round trip trail leads to Mouse's Tank from the trail head parking area, passing numerous examples of prehistoric Indian petroglyphs. Prehistoric users of the Valley of Fire included the Basket Maker people and later the Anasazi Pueblo farmers from the nearby fertile Moapa Valley.
Note: There is an entry fee of $6 per person. The trail is available during daylight hours year round. The trail is roughly 0.5 miles round trip.
For more info see:
http://parks.nv.gov/vf.htm
Visit Instructions:1. You may log as many different waymarks as you wish but you may only log each one once.
2. You must include a close up photo of the pictograph and your GPSr. The pictograph must be recognizable.
3. Tell a little bit about what you learned of the area.