I'm on my way to Havasu Falls in northern Arizona with my long-time friend, Nick for a short backpacking trip. After flying into Las Vegas this morning, we have a three-hour or so drive to get to our accommodations for the night and along the way, I thought it might be good to find a distraction and to stretch our legs. Reviewing our route for possible points of interest, I found some information on the North Avenue Petroglyph Site. Though, the exact location was not obvious from descriptions I found, I was confident I had located it with a little detective work and Google satellite images.
Once we parked the car at the probably location, we had a short walk down a dusty desert road to a pile of volcanic rocks, which I had seen in the satellite images. As soon as we approached, we started identifying petroglyphs scratched into the boulders - first a bird (?), and then an antelope, and then some geometric shapes. All in all, we found roughly a dozen petroglyphs at the site. There may have been more, but there were limits how much time we had available. Still, it was an interesting site and a welcome stroll into the past on the way to our larger adventure.
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