You don’t need a museum ticket to visit the Great Gallery at Canyonlands National Park, but you’ll want to bring your hiking boots. This remote archeological site in Utah is home to one of the most well known rock art collections in the country. Archaeologists believe that the pictographs here in Horseshoe Canyon (formerly known as Barrier Canyon) were produced sometime between 400 and 1100 CE, when nomadic hunter-gatherers roamed the desert. Pictured here is the Ghost Panel, named for about 20 life-sized figures that seem to hover above viewers.
National Park Week: Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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A good time in the Badlands
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Nature Photography Day
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International Polar Bear Day
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Fall for birding
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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Womens History Month
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Coming home to roost
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National Park Service anniversary
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Spotted Lake emerges
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Bidding summer adieu
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A long, erratic commute
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Colle Santa Lucia, Dolomites, Italy
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Cannes, France, in the spotlight
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Falling for the Canadian Rockies
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Penguin Awareness Day
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A Christmas market with a long history
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Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park shines
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Windmills in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands
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Anybody out there?
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A tree of many memories
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Illuminated Uluru
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Classical music takes center stage
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A memorial in Germany
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Helloooooo, Innsbruck