I recently visited this again to see if any more glyphs have been added.  When I first took pictures of these back in 2015 you could find some vandalism and graffiti on them.  When I visited in 2019, the graffiti was filled in…not sure who did that but it’s just interesting.

The trail starts at 22nd street in Ogden and it quickly rises up to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.

Once I was where I thought the trail was to the hieroglyphs I just went straight up the mountain a few hundred yards.  The trail was tricky since there was about 8 inches of snow on the ground but I managed to see where the outline of the trail was for the most part.

After about 150 yards you will see several large boulders.  You are now very close.  Continue to follow the trail for about another 30 yards or so and you will wind around to the rock that has the carvings on it.

The carvings are facing south and the trail just goes right up to it.

The hieroglyphs are definitely not Native American.  They could however be from aliens!



If you look at them closely you can see that they are chiseled, probably by some random guy.  Apparently, these are over 100 years old!  If you follow the links in my Personal Thoughts below, you will find that these have been around sine the late 1800s.

I came back to visit in August of 2019 and found that some of the graffiti has been filled in.

After doing a little more research and speaking with a few people, these are part of what is called the “Western Message.”  There are similar glyphs spread out all over the west and some have even been translated. 

For additional information please click the links below:

Academia Link

J L Hilbish Research Paper