Chronicles of Cammy My Fool's Journey and Travelogue

Before we headed over to Grand Junction, we decided to view the last four pictograph panels around Moab. There are both books and websites on how to get to the local pictographs. There are even gps directions from Google, but not Apple Maps..go figure…But still…they can be hard to spot and those looking for them, help the others out. We kept running across a german couple doing the same thing as us. Each time we did, we would chat and find out a little more about each other as we scoped the area with our binoculars. It was fun. One of my favorite things about adventures such as these are the meet ups with people who are interested in the same things. Makes the world a friendlier place.

Our first stop was just outside Moab on the border of Arches. Since I knew cellular was sketchy, I took pictures of the routes. Here are the directions

And here is what it looks like when you park, walk back toward town, cross over the Courthouse Wash Bridge, and look up at 11 o’clock.

But we found them! It was about a half mile trek up…

That was the first time we ran into the german couple. They watched our decent from the panel and could plan their route up.

Here’s the google map for the second pictographs:

This one was tough to find. In fact, we never did, but we now know exactly where it is after much googling when we got back. There was no cellular, so we tried to find the location by where the dinosaur tracks and pictographs were located across the river (see map.) The written directions were this…

We traveled up that graded gravel road which got skinnier and skinnier with long scary cliffs, and kept running into four wheelers and bikers, but couldn’t find any turnouts except one that had a map which told us nothing. We spoke to one of the bikers and he had no idea where a rock covered with pictographs was located, so we decided we had missed it and turned around to park at another turnout site closer to the cattle guard. (Turns out, we should have continued on that gravel road.Sigh.)

That was when we ran into the german couple the second time. They, too, had gone up the skinny gravel road and had turned around. We both got out our binoculars and discussed. They told us about the pictographs we were planning to see next, and we told them about an unmarked panel along the road we had stumbled upon looking for the birthing rock. We also chatted about what we had seen and where they were heading to next, etc. They had been all over the four corners area and were heading back to New Mexico where they had friends and had begun their circuit.

We went to one more lovely canyon which was also on the Kane Road. There was a beautiful, tall tree there in the shady canyon. I would have liked to linger, but there was a group of children and two adults having a picnic. It looked like a classroom field trip so we didn’t want to wander too far and distract the kiddos.

The last panel was south of Moab by the golf course. I had cell reception in town and got google maps up and running. Good thing, too, because you drove through a residential area and couldn’t see a golf course…just houses until you turned a corner and voila…there were our german friends finishing up their lunch at the panel. They left shortly thereafter and we enjoyed meeting the Moab Man sporting very large earrings.

By then, it was well past lunchtime and we headed back to our favorite fun place to eat…

Lots of choices at the food truck park and awnings with misters where we could cool down and enjoy our meal.

Today we pack up and drive to Grand Junction via route 128 that winds around alongside the Colorado River. Should be beautiful.