Gold Butte National Monument - Day 2

Newspaper Rock

On our second day at Gold Butte National Monument (first day click here) we visited the rock art sites that were the motivation for the whole trip - Falling Man, 21 Goats, and Khota Circus. The original intent was to spend a couple of days in this area, but a quickly approaching storm accelerated our itinerary. We roused the troops and headed out in the early morning for what would be an 8 mile round trip hike to all of the features. 

First up not far from the cars was the Falling Man site. Besides the namesake glyph there are many other panels with dozens of petroglyphs to see.

Falling Man

Commonly known as the "Hang Ten" petroglyph. See if you can tell why.

BJ takes a few photos from the edge

From here we hiked about a mile down to the 21 Goats panel in a wash. There are more than 21 "goats" (bighorn sheep actually) and it was fun to see how many we could count. This is a very large petroglyph panel.

Black Butte

21 Goats

From the goats we hiked a couple miles further through some beautiful scenery to a small canyon with a grand panel - Khota Circus. The main panel was easily 40 feet long and pretty amazing. 

Khota Circus

Look carefully, the tortoises even have toes!

It was a long walk back to the cars, but a very satisfying day for all in Gold Butte National Monument.