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We found that there are several areas around Moab containing petroglyphs, called rock art around here. Along the drive to the Needles area of Canyonlands there’s one large rock face that contains over 1,000 years of rock art, so much that it overlaps in some areas. Along the Potash Road there’s a section of rock art that is naturally protected from modern-day gratffiti because when it was drawn it was easy to climb the cliff base (loose rock) but that cliff base was removed to build the road so it’s up a sheer cliff wall about 30 feet. A third location we saw with lots of rock art was when we took a back-country drive into the Kane Springs area, which is along a creek and has lots of places to camp out (but all very primitive!). On that drive there’s a huge square-ish rock that has rock art on all 4 faces. One picture seems to show a woman giving birth so it’s called the birthing rock.

Here are pictures of rock art that we took at the various locations: