New Mexico Road Trip | Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
03/03/2021 If you’re into art or history, or just like being outdoors, a trip to the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, in Southern New Mexico about halfway between Tularosa and Carrizozo, is a must. Just east of U.S. Highway 54, there’s a basaltic escarpment and, on nearly every available surface along the ridgeline, the Jornada Mogollon people, sometime between 900 and 1400 CE, chipped the desert varnish to create petroglyphs. The History The people lived along three creeks that give the place its name. Three Rivers sounds more majestic than three creeks, I suppose, but water was once more ...
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