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The nearly 300 individual petroglyphs feature some of the oldest and best examples of Dinwoody rock art in the world. [2] The origins of the petroglyphs are still subject to debate. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1973 [1] and it is preserved by the state of Wyoming as a state historic site.
The Torrey Lake Petroglyph District extends for about 3.2 miles (5.1 km) along Torrey Creek in Fremont County, Wyoming. The site includes about 175 petroglyphs, as well as eleven lithic scatters and a sheep trap. The petroglyphs are in the Interior Line Style, or Dinwoody style, consistent with other rock art in central Wyoming. [2]
The Dinwoody petroglyph style is indigenous to central Wyoming including the Wind River Basin and Bighorn Basin. Scholars believe that the Dinwoody petroglyphs most likely represent the work of ancestral Tukudika or Mountain Shoshone Sheepeaters, because some of the figures at Torrey Lake Petroglyph District and Legend Rock correspond to ...
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs
It is administered by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. The site is at the base of a steep limestone outcropping near the point where the dry and running portions of Medicine Lodge Creek join for a protected location with ready access to water. The site includes petroglyphs and pictographs on the rock face. An eight-year ...
The Dinwoody Formation is a geologic formation in the western United States (Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming). It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period ...
Bear River State Park: Uinta: 324 131: 1991: Within the city limits of Evanston: Boysen State Park: Fremont: 35,952 14,549: 1956: Surrounds the Boysen Reservoir Buffalo Bill State Park: Park: 11,276 4,563: 1957: Surrounds the Buffalo Bill Reservoir Curt Gowdy State Park: Laramie: 3,395 1,374: 1971: Recreation on and around three reservoirs ...
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