Original Report - December 10, 2008
The panel is impressive and there are numerous carvings on other rock faces nearby, so be sure to look around. One that many visitors miss is found inside a rockfall cave behind the main panel.
The rock art panel at Rochester Creek is easily
accessible and worth a trip. It is located east of Emery, Utah on a rock
face overlooking the confluence of Muddy Creek and Rochester Creek.
Take highway 10 and turn onto the road to Moore between mile markers 16
& 17. A half mile from the highway is a graded road headed
south, it is an other 4 miles from here to the trailhead parking lot.
From the parking lot the trail to the panel is a half mile or so.
Almost all the rock art here is petroglyphs; that is, art made by pecking away the dark surface rock, the "desert varnish", to reveal the lighter rock underneath. It is a mixture of all ages. There are definitely some Fremont glyphs, and some Ute ones, and some that look suspiciously like African animals which were probably carved by non-Indians.
Almost all the rock art here is petroglyphs; that is, art made by pecking away the dark surface rock, the "desert varnish", to reveal the lighter rock underneath. It is a mixture of all ages. There are definitely some Fremont glyphs, and some Ute ones, and some that look suspiciously like African animals which were probably carved by non-Indians.
The panel is impressive and there are numerous carvings on other rock faces nearby, so be sure to look around. One that many visitors miss is found inside a rockfall cave behind the main panel.
The Main Panel
A Fremont-style Figure
Figures inside the Rockfall Cave
Photos from 2008 and 2009 are available on Photobucket.com.
Also, a cool set of linked photos at Photosynth.net.
Also, a cool set of linked photos at Photosynth.net.
Links with further explanation about this site:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Rock_Art_Panel
- http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/bc/bc_a.html
- http://scienceblogs.com/chaoticutopia/2006/06/the_art_of_time_ii_traces_of_t_1.php
© 2008 Kerk L. Phillips
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