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Less than a mile north of the
Valley of Fire
visitor center, an easy and interesting half-mile hike follows a sandy wash
through
Petroglyph Canyon
. The rock walls at the base of certain sandstone monoliths here are thought to
have been decorated by prehistoric Ancestral Puebloan farmers. Some
symbols have been recognized as being similar to those used by the modern Hopi
people of Arizona, but not all is necessarily what it seems. The depictions of
bighorn sheep, for example, probably represent shamen rather than actual sheep.
The
trail is forced to stop when the ground suddenly drops away at the far
end of the canyon, where run-off after occasional desert storms has cut
deep channels into the rock. Scrambling up the slopes adjacent to the
edge enables you to peer down into a natural "tank" that can hold
collected rainwater for months at a time. Known as Mouse's Tank ,
this remote reservoir was the hideout of Mouse, a fugitive
Paiute Indian, during the 1890s.
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