I have a friend who often plans her road and camping trips around hot springs. I’ve often thought I’d like to plan mine around petroglyphs and pictographs. So I was very happy to discover there were petroglyphs in walking distance of our camp site.
We also visited Lahaina, which is showing little recovery from the devastating wildfire of August 2023. But there’s still some good restaurants in town.
Years ago, I took a guided tour of Little Petroglyph Canyon, deep within the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake. It’s a truly amazing place, with over 20,000 documented Coso petroglyphs. These sculptures in the gardens of Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest are based on some of those images.
I’d love to take K back to the canyon, but they stopped allowing tours at the start of Covid and have never resumed them. I’m really glad I got to go when I did.
