Black Dragon Canyon Pictographs and Petroglyphs

On another recommendation from my friend Dawn (the same Dawn that suggested the Rattlesnake Canyon), I made a stop in Black Dragon Canyon to camp outside of Moab, UT for a night and to find the pictographs and petroglyphs there. Pictographs are paintings on stone using natural pigments and are usually only found in caves – or in this case where a canyon wall overhangs a bit to protect the pigments from the elements. Petroglyphs are images carved into the stone, usually to show a color variation in the rock to make the image easier to see – I previously shared an example of that from Capitol Reef National Park. See if you can figure out which is which in the photos below…