Next and last stop for today is Sego Canyon. It is an area that we found about when researching what to do and we were really impressed with the petroglyphs so we made it as a must stop in our trip. We find the petroglyphs easily as it is a developed site and are surprised at the diversity of styles, it seems it was quite a popular area across the centuries.
The style we are most used to is the Fremont style, it is the most popular one at the Arizona locations we have seen. The figures here are more detailed though but the deer, those we would recognize anywhere.
We continue and look around and soon find the ones that fascinated us, red pictographs of alien like humanoid pictures. They are in the Barrier Canyon style which is not at all common in Arizona so we are quite excited to see them.
We zoom in on a few of the pictographs and they are quite special, these likely shaman or spirit representations are quite different than everything we encountered before in the Southwest. In fact they appear quite often on “Ancient Aliens” as representations of aliens and it is fun to explain everything we see on the panel as aliens instead of shamans or human representations.
After enjoying the pictographs we continue on the road through the canyon past an old pioneer cemetery, where we stop for a few pictures, towards the Sego ghost town.
We know we are getting close to the ghost town when we start seeing ruined buildings and even the trestles of an old railroad bridge, or so we assume.
Soon we park in the middle of the abandoned town and start exploring the buildings – one is still standing while the other ones have been flattened since the town has been abandoned.
There are also rusting cars, fridges and other domestic junk deposited here. It is an area we like to explore with the focus being on an old rusted car that shines in the evening sun.
While examining the ruins and enjoying the silence in the canyon we suddenly hear some noises in the bushes. We decide it is something worth investigating so we move slowly towards it.
We look around and start investigating and are spooked when suddenly we are face to face with a few deer who are less shocked than us and slowly move away.
And then the sun is setting and after enjoying the sunset it is time to be on our way as we still have a long drive ahead of us.
After returning to the main road the night falls quickly so we drive straight to Vernal where we will spend the following two nights. The hotel chosen is quite great with our suite looking nice spacious and well appointed. We are tired after the day so after dinner in the room we soon fall asleep.
