Sand Island and Lower Butler Wash

Sand Island is about the easiest sight to see from Bluff. It's a campground on the river just south of town. Lower Sand Island is a very well-known petroglyph panel, but there's a much more recently discovered panel, Upper Sand Island, that had been hidden by foliage until recently. It's a flat, easy walk north from the parking area.

Our Lower Butler Wash hike was less auspicious. It was a very hot day. We made it past one modest set of ruins and a couple of small panels to the big petroglyph panel, which is impressive indeed. But the sun was beating down, and the trail that supposedly went on from the panel to a larger ruin was nowhere to be found, and we ended up bailing.

Next: Mule Canyon. Up: Bluff 2017.