In late April on my way North, I stopped for a few days at Fremont Indian State Park in Sevier, Utah. I stayed in the Sam Stowe Campground where there are 7 or 8 Full Hookup sites. Most of the sites needed a good bit of leveling, but I found one that wasn’t too bad.
This state park had some great “brochures” which I downloaded to my phone. Using these, I found many petroglyphs and pictographs. Some required short hikes, while others were along the road. Also, there were many that were not in the brochures I downloaded. I enjoyed the search for this ancient art. The main road in the park is basically an access road to I-70 so you can see the interstate and traffic quite often.
Even though it is next to the interstate, it is out in the country. 2 of the 3 days I was there I got caught by thousands of sheep. One of those days, I was sitting on a bench beside the road looking for petroglyphs. One of the cowboys (?sheep herders?) rode up to me on his horse and said I could stay there as the sheep would go around me, but I decided to sit in my car as they moved by.
I started at the visitor center. The main loop is paved, but there are several trails off of the main loop.
A cyclops! The eye is a bullet hole.
Kilt Man -
Newspaper Rock - 
Below is one of the newer petroglyphs. This one is called Hunkup’s Train. The brochure said that Hunkup was a Paiute (who didn’t live here, but traveled through the area regularly). During the 1870’s Hunkup took a train to Chicago and then came back and documented his journey on the cliffs. Below there are trains and 2-story houses.
See next blog for the rest of this trip!
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