Painted Walls Canyon

Lincoln County, pictographs, petroglyphs, Nevada, Basin and Range, Great Basin, Basin and Range National Monument, Native American, Desert, Rock Art, hiking, exploring, camping, offroading, off roading, off-roading, Pahranagat Valley, Paiute
One of the main pictograph panels (click to enlarge)

First of all, Painted Walls Canyon is not the real name of this location.  The most I’ll give away about it’s location is that it’s in the Pahranagat Valley.  This site has some truly spectacular pictographs and petroglyphs with very little-to-no graffiti, thus my reasoning for using a fake name.

The pictograph panels at this location are truly amazing.  Some of the designs are very unique (the petroglyphs are great, too!).  And, to top it all off, all of this is contained within an incredibly beautiful canyon.

Please click the images below (NOTE- there is a 2nd gallery with enhanced pictures, below this gallery):


Jon Harman, Ph D, developed a program called DStretch to help digitally enhance faded pictographs.  The gallery below include enhanced pictures using DStretch:

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