*Please do not climb on the ruins or touch or deface the rock art*

On a recent camping trip to The Wedge Overlook, I planned to take a drive through Buckhorn Wash on a day I didn’t have much planned.  I got up early one day and set out down the dirt road and made stops along the way to see all the rock art and interesting things along the way.  I spent the whole day exploring in Buckhorn and came back to camp in the late afternoon.  As I drove back down the same road, I noticed a natural arch on the south side that I didn’t see earlier in the morning.  The natural arch was very visible due to the afternoon’s sun’s angle at this time of day, so I parked and hiked up to it to get some pictures.

The closer I got I started to see some scratch marks on the sandstone walls that I thought could be petroglyphs.  I also thought I saw a granary or some kind of structure too.  There was a narrow and steep trail and I soon realized that there were indeed petroglyphs and a rock structure!  (I’m not so sure this is a granary, since this isn’t water tight, but rather it was just piles of stacked rocks to make an enclosure.  I could be wrong!).  It was SO awesome to stumble upon an ancient historical site!

There are petroglyphs to the right and left of the rock structure.

After seeing the rock art and rock structure, I headed up to the natural arch.  It wasn’t too difficult getting up to the arch, but the north side of the arch is very steep so just pay attention.  On the actual arch, there is a petroglyph that looks like a man made out of a ladder.  It could be something else, but the original meaning is gone so we are left to speculate what these are.  On the back side of the wall, there are some interesting petroglyphs.

The view from the arch is a great vantage point! You could easily see people coming up and down the wash.

This seemed to be an important area to create so many petroglyphs and this structure.  I think there are other rock structures in this same area, but they are broken or dismantled.