ADVENTURES OF RYAN
The Travel and Exploration of Ryan Boschert - Fremont Indian State Park, Utah April, 2002
 

Travel back in time. Way back just over a thousand years.  You are sitting at the base of a rock out-cropping.  Pick up a loose rock and begin to peck on the rock panel. You are drawing the figure of a deer, your villiage and then the stream near your village. You are what was known as a Fremont Indian living in Clear Creek Canyon Utah making a petroglyph.

Now fast forward one thousand years and you are standing in front of the same petroglyph. Ryan examines the rock art using his rock art glossary book to decypher the ancient images.

Explore and investigate the Fremont Indian State Park in central Utah with Ryan on his Spring break of 2002.


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Camp Life
My Dad and I drove down to central Utah for three days of camping and exploration among the Fremont Indian Park ruins. We stayed at the park campground, Castle Rock C.G., which is in a box canyon just around the corner from the park museum and park trails.
Fremont Indian
State Park, UT
The Fremont Indial State Park is in central Utah near Richfield, Utah.  The park was established in 1985.  The Uath Department of Transportation helped to create the park as part of a highway construction project for Interstate 70.  The visitor center explains the artifact finds in the area and makes interpertations of the lifestyle of the canyon inhabitants.  Trails from the visitor center lead guests to rock art "finds" and even some other surprises.
Rock Art Panels
The people who inhabited Clear Creek Canyon are labeled as the native american group Fremont. The area is believed to have been populated from 400 A.D. to 1200 A.D. The Fremont period is characterized by the pottery, arrowhead, tools, dwelling, and even art work artifacts found. They left behind images of their life on the canyon walls. The images depict animal, spiritual and even geographic maps important to these people.
May 2002