Pictographs at Lower Calf Creek Falls
Lower Calf Creek Falls Map and Visitor Information Before driving east to Capitol Reef National Park, we had to check out Lower Calf Creek Falls in the Canyon of the Escalantes. We had driven across...
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...Standing at the bottom of the first ladder in the Lower canyon, I felt as if I'd landed in the burrow of a manic, gifted sculptor. The swirled sandstone passageway revealed only the immediate, and...
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View ArticleOf Pictographs and Petroglyphs…
We first heard of the Fremont people as we hiked to Lower Calf Creek Falls in the Grand Staircase-Escalante region. The remains of their storage granaries perched at the edges of the high cliffs above...
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