Nine Mile Canyon
Nine Mile Canyon is located about 26 1/2 miles northeast of the town of Wellington, Utah. It contains approximately 1000 different panels of rock art, including both petroglyphs and pictographs, and an abundant number of other archeological ruins and artifacts from the people who lived there long ago. But this web site is dedicated to the rock art panels that are found there and is hopefully helpful to the many tourists and other interested people who visit the canyon on a regular basis. In doing so, I want to explain that the site numbers I use in this expose are taken directly from a book published in 2003 which is titled Horned Snakes and Axle Grease, by Jerry and Donna Spangler, a work I strongly recommend to anyone who visits the canyon and wants to know more about it. This book is an invaluable reference to the canyon and will give all who read it a great deal of wonderful information and insight into the various indiginous people who occupied Nine Mile Canyon throughout the early history of the state of Utah. My web site is in no way intended to replace the book or to critique it but simply to amplify the visual experience of a visitor who likes to see what ancient people decided to leave behind when they lived there. Most of the following links refer to a specific panel described in the Spangler book and use the same site number that is described in that book.
Site 9 Site 26 Site 35 Site 46 Site 57
Site 12 Site 27 Site 36 Site 49 Site 58 Daddy's Canyon
Site 13 Site 28 Site 37 Site 50 Site 68 Site 77
Site 16 Coyote Panel Site 38 Site 51 Site 60 Site 78
Site 18 Site 29 Site 39 Site 52 Site 61 Site 71 Unknown
Site 19 Site 30 Site 40 Site 53 Site 63 Site 72
Site 20 Owl Panel Site 41 Site 54 Site 65 Site 73
Site 21 Site 31 Site 42 Site 55 Site 66 Site 74
Site 22 Site 32 Site 43 Site 56 Site 67 Site 75
Site 23 Site 33 Site 44 Site 76