Spring Valley is located within the La Madre Mountains, outside of the Red Rock National Conservation Area (I’ve also seen this site called Lone Grapevine Springs).  There’s tons to explore in this area.  Spring Valley has multiple spring sources and lots of rock art (both petroglyphs and pictographs), agave roasting pits and some old shelters (including lithic scatter).  I’ve even come across some fossilized corral and petrified wood.  Some of these petroglyphs are rather interesting, in that there are depictions of what appears to be a shooting star (at least that’s what it looks like to me) and a horse and buggy (perhaps memorializing the first settlers coming West?).

Please click on 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: