Located along Highway 191, the Courthouse Wash Rock Art Site is an historic landmark offering one of the few examples of Barrier Canyon-style rock art.
Located along Highway 191, the Courthouse Wash Rock Art Site is an historic landmark offering one of the few examples of Barrier Canyon-style rock art. Visitors will need to leave their cars in the parking area and walk a half mile on a graveled footpath to the large petroglyph and pictograph panel located just within Arches National Park.
Nineteen feet high and fifty-two feet wide, the red-orange panel depicts large ghost-like forms of human figures, bighorn sheep, scorpions, dogs, long-beaked birds, and shields typical of the Barrier Canyon style. Several slabs at the base of the panel present a scattering of additional petroglyphs. Adding to the mysterious quality of the "ghost drawings" is evidence of multi-colored figures which appear to have been superimposed onto other pictographs. Visitors should stop by the Moab Information Center for a map and directions.
