All loaded in the car and ready for an adventure! We joined the Museum of Moab (where Matt is on the Board) on an outing to Sego Canyon to see historic Native American Rock art and tour the ghost town of Sego. Sego is about an hour from our house. Our area is very rich in Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. I learned a lot on the tour and really enjoyed the trip. The kids liked the ghost town and climbing.
Grace and Caroline "listening" to the history of the town of Thompson Springs--the jumping off point of our tour.
Sego Canyon Barrier Canyon Rock Art Panel
It is estimated to be over 2000 years old!
Fremont petroglyphs(white pictures that are "pecked" into the rock-petroglyphs are pecked or scratched into the rock) imposed on old Barrier Canyon pictographs (red pictures that are "painted" in the background). I was excited to learn the difference between petroglyphs and pictographs. This is dated to sometime between AD 650 to 1200.
Joseph posing with a Barrier Canyon anthropomorphic figure (a person) versus a zoomorphic figure (animal).
Masha and Grace pose in the window of the old general store in the ghost town of Sego.
Alex poses near his new ride...a car in the ghost town of Sego.
Courtney climbs inside as well.
Masha and the girls exit a "house" in the town.
The remains of the general store in Sego. It was built from stone cut from the surrounding mountains.
After viewing rock art and exploring a ghost town, everyone needs a little picnic in the back of the car. It was too hot to eat anywhere else and too many bugs were in the canyon itself so we went back to Thompson Springs (population 80) to eat our picnic.
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