The Fish Slough petroglyphs, Chalfant petroglyphs, Red Canyon petroglyphs and Chidago Canyon petroglyphs are pretty good and you can drive to them. These sites are public, so here are fuel efficient directions so you won't be running all over like a headless chicken.
For the PETROGLYPHS LOOP, take highway 6 north for 17 miles and turn left at milepost MNO 8.6. Drive the dirt road to a wooden fence at the wash. The last half mile is not graded but most cars would make it. Good panels are left and right, but the best is right at another fence. This is the CHALFANT SITE. Now get back on 6 and go north 2.2 miles to the Chidago Canyon Rd. Turn left and go 3 and a half miles to the RED CANYON SITE. It's at the junction with the Fish Slough Rd. The best panels are at the north end. Take Fish Slough Rd south for 5 and a half miles to the CHIDAGO SITE. It's on the left with wooden fence. The last site is 4 more miles down the the road on the right at a wooden fence. Keep going south then follow pavement out past a gravel plant back to town. All roads are graded except that last half mile at the Chalfant site. This is about a 50 mile loop. An electric car could make it. Posted 2019.
CHIDAGO CANYON NARROWS - an easy loop hike can be done 2 miles west of the Fish Slough Rd. Go about 4 miles south from the Red Canyon site and turn on easy 4wd at N37 35485, W118 25488. Go 2 miles and park near the rim then walk to 35396, 27660 el 4800 and drop to the creekbed. It's not too hard to walk up canyon. A couple of 5 foot falls have to be climbed. The first is tricky for a solo hiker then the second is easy. At the narrowest part I came to a 7 foot high chokestone and had to back up for 5 minutes then climb up easy bedrock at 36070, 28863 to bypass it on the north side. I decided to keep going up to just below the main rim and walked a game trail on the inner rim to get back to the start. At 35627, 28306 I got up on the main rim. That took 2 hours with 400 feet of noticeable gain. I wore shorts but should have used hiker gaiters to keep stickers out of my socks. Green mileposts that I used in the past have been removed from US 6 so now it's strictly the county mileposts. Posted 2019.
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| 13 moons is not a public site. |
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| I don't know the name but this isn't public either. |
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| Sky Rock is not a public site. |
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| Chidago Canyon narrows |
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| Rock ring at Chidago Canyon narrows |
