Basin and Range National Monument, Rock Art Around Las Vegas
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Overview The Shooting Gallery Petroglyph Site, located in a disjunct section of Basin and Range National Monument, is an area of desert-varnished volcanic boulders in a bowl-shaped mountain valley. Over the last 6,000 years, people stayed here seasonally flaking stones, building fires, breaking ceramic vessels, and etching the rocks with abstract and representational (e.g., bighorn sheep and human figures) images to record their stories. Presented here are photos of the Side Canyon Area. For a detailed description of the route, including directions, maps, GPS coordinates, and photos, see Shooting Gallery. |
Mouth of the Side Canyon
 Boulder at the mouth of the canyon |
 Boulder at the mouth of the canyon |
 Boulder at the mouth of the canyon |
 Bighorn and coyote |
 Bighorn and Horned Lizard |
 Horned Lizard |
 Mountain Lion boulder at mouth of the canyon |
 Mountain Lion boulder |
 Mountain Lion |
Mountain Lion |
 Boulder at mouth of the canyon |
 Somebody is always watching (yellow-backed spiny lizard) |
Up in the Side Canyon
 From Mountain Lion site hikers starting up Side Canyon (view W) |
 Starting up the side canyon (view W) |
 Up the side canyon (view W) |
 Petroglyphs on south wall (view W) |
 Petroglyphs on south wall (view W) |
 Up the side canyon (view W) |
 Petroglyph high on the cliff (view S, up) |
 Pahranagat Man with Atlatl high on the cliff (view S, up) |
 Route continues up canyon bottom (view W) |
 Small tinaja in the canyon bottom (view NW) |
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 Antlers can be hard to see, depending on the lighting (view N) |
 Big elk; note antler tines visible in the right light (view N) |
 Scorpions adjacent to the big elk (view S) |
 Faint petroglyphs left of the big elk (view N) |
 Hikers descending across slope towards canyon bottom (view W) |
 Farther up the Canyon: Petroglyphs and red pictographs |
 Farther up the Canyon: Petroglyphs and red pictographs |
 Farther up the Canyon: Pahranagat Man with atlatl |
 Farther up the Canyon: Ibis or Heron |
 Big snake poop |
 More to come ... |
Happy Hiking! All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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