The Nine Mile Canyon consists of interbedded sandstone, mudstone and shallow water limestone. The changes in rock type record changes in the expansion and contraction of the ancient Lake Uinta.

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Back in 2014 when Nine Mile was first paved, officials said the purpose of that upgrade was not for hauling oil, but to serve rock art visitors and natural gas wells inside the canyon.

Anyone with information on rock art vandalism in Nine Mile Canyon should contact the BLM at 1-800-722-3998 or the Price Field Office at 435-636-3600. Email:[email protected].

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Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world — thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters ...

Nine Mile Canyon contains an estimated 10,000 rock art sites created over a thousand years ago, and that’s just the beginning of the canyon’s historic and cultural value.

In reality, Nine Mile Canyon encompasses a stretch of approximately 45 miles with perhaps as many as 10,000 ancient petroglyphs (images carved into rock surface) and pictograph (images painted on ...

I suspect artist Michael Heizer, creator of the “Levitated Mass” would oppose both the highway through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as the one through Nine Mile Canyon, as his ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—A rock art panel in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon has been defaced with the initials “JMN” and the date, May 25, 2014. The writing appears in the dark patina next to the ...

The BLM Price Field Office law enforcement officers and archaeological staff investigated the damage to the Nine Mile Canyon pregnant buffalo r. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.