After we left Georgetown we drove to Rangely Colorado. This is in the NW part of the State (and a good 250 miles from Georgetown by car). In the am we drove into Utah and to the west entrance to Dinosaur National Park. I had never been there.
The park is famous for two things:
1. Dinosaur bones
2. Petroglyphs and Pictographs (the former are etching in stone, the later are paintings on stone) done by Native Americans in what corresponded with the middle ages in Europe. The artists did not have a written language and no one knows why they did this art (although there are many theories).
There was a lot of climbing needed to get to some of these places and the first climb was to where the dinosaur bones were. Ann was tired and didn't get to most of the glyphs. I saw the small lizard at the dinosaur site and took its picture because the lizard is shown on one of the most famous petraglyphs.
The Dinosaur National Park is one of the least visited parks in the national park system but there were rangers around to help us find some of the dinosaur bones.
Wikipedia has a good site on Petroglyphs.
The Utah Travel Center has a good site explaining the images in Dinosaur National Park and providing speculation on the motives of the artists.
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