This is Stop 6, the second to last audio tour stop along the Petroglyph Viewing Trail in Piedras Marcadas Canyon. You have hiked approximately 1 mile, or 1.6 kilometers.
Piedras Marcadas Canyon is home to an estimated 5,000 documented images; however, you can expect to see up to 400 images along the trail system. While some designs are isolated on boulders, others are clustered in what archaeologists call “panels," a group of images on the same face of a single boulder. On this panel you can see bird and snake images, in addition to human-like figures.
You may notice some of these panels are damaged by bullet scars, graffiti, and other vandalization. Once damaged, petroglyphs are impossible to repair and forever destroyed by these disrespectful acts. You can help Indigenous communities in preserving the symbols of their ancestors by staying on marked trails, not touching petroglyphs, by not conducting acts of vandalism, and respecting the living cultural landscape you are visiting.
Continue 100 yards, or.09 kilometers to Stop 7, the last stop of this audio tour.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service