Piedras Marcada Canyon petroglyphs
We spent the morning looking at some of the petroglyphs inscribed into the rock varnish on the basalt rocks of Petroglyph National Monument. We had expected to see a few. That is an understatement, for there were hundreds of them.
These petroglyphs were mostly carved by the ancestral puebloans; however some of them are more modern than that including petroglyphs by the Spaniards and others. After we had seen those in the Boca Negra Canyon we drove north about six miles to the Piedras Marcadas Canyon where we walked about a mile and took far, far too many pictures. I’m not sure how many pictures of petroglyphs I really need!
After lunch we went shopping. We found a very large mall not far from where we had been viewing the petroglyphs, and spent the afternoon walking through the stores there.