{"id":4816,"date":"2016-10-03T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T17:26:51","slug":"petroglyphs-in-the-moab-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"Petroglyphs in the Moab area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>rea)<br \/>We found that there are several areas around Moab containing petroglyphs, called rock art around here. Along the drive to the Needles area of Canyonlands there&#8217;s one large rock face that contains over 1,000 years of rock art, so much that it overlaps in some areas. Along the Potash Road there&#8217;s a section of rock art that is naturally protected from modern-day gratffiti because when it was drawn it was easy to climb the cliff base (loose rock) but that cliff base was removed to build the road so it&#8217;s up a sheer cliff wall about 30 feet. A third location we saw with lots of rock art was when we took a back-country drive into the Kane Springs area, which is along a creek and has lots of places to camp out (but all very primitive!). On that drive there&#8217;s a huge square-ish rock that has rock art on all 4 faces. 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Along the drive to the Needles area of Canyonlands there&#8217;s one large rock face that contains over 1,000 years of rock art, so much that it overlaps in some areas. Along the Potash Road there&#8217;s a section of rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petroglyphs in the Moab area<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-115-moab-ut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}