Overview
The Whispering Ben Trail is a spur trail off the Bighorn Loop Trail that leads to an unusual archeological site: a boulder used like a bedrock mortar for grinding honey mesquite beans. Native peoples used one of the holes for so many years (probably so many generations) that they pounded all the way through the boulder!
From the far northeast end of the Bighorn Loop Trail (Wpt. 22), the Whispering Ben Trail forks right to head northeast into the desert.
The narrow, unsurfaced trail runs out about 80 yards before hooking to the left to run west. The trail end about 135 yards out at the archeological artifact. For details on getting to this trail, see the description of the Bighorn Loop Trail. Please help protect the fragile desert soils by staying on the trail, and all archeological artifacts are protected -- take only photos, leave only footprints.
Link to Trail Map. |