It’s true. In the St. George neighborhood of Bloomington, you can actually park your car right in front of a neighborhood building lot and walk 20 feet and see amazing ancient petroglyphs up close. So close you can actually touch them. However, please don’t come in contact with the ancient petroglyphs as human skin oil will degrade the old Indian art.
The Utah park is called Bloomington Petroglyph Park. In the middle of a 0.5 acre lot, a huge boulder appears to have been split in two. In the middle are really cool images carved into the rock by Anasazi Indians that were most likely the ancestors of the current Navajo tribe in Utah. In fact, the park is right on Navajo Drive in Bloomington.
UPDATE: $100 to whoever says ‘hi’ to my parents first who live right across the street.
Apparently the boulder and ancient art was discovered during the development of the St. George neighborhood. The building lot was either purchased or donated to the state of Utah, who turned it into a mini-State park.
The carved images left behind on the rocks most likely either tell a story, or leave trail directions. You can recognize some images as humans, horses, and perhaps deer. See if you can crack the code and figure out what the ancient writings mean.
Bloomington Petroglyph Park is located on the northeast corner of Geronimo Road and Navajo Drive in the St. George Bloomington neighborhood. Directions to the park from StGeorgeVacationRentals are below. Bloomington is the meeting place of southern Utah’s Great Basin and the Mojave Desert.
Site Name: Bloomington Petroglyph Park
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: St. George, UT
GPS directions Latitude: 37.052830N Longitude: 113.6154W
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