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Newspaper Rock is a wonderful example of American Indian petroglyph art. The Rock is 200 square feet in size, part of Wingate sandstone cliff at the end of Indian Creek Canyon, and covered with hundreds of rock carvings. The carvings are a mixture of humans, animals, materials, symbols and abstract forms.

No one knows the actual meaning of these drawings. There are relationships to nature; sun, rivers, human hunters, deer, big horn sheep, snakes, insects, etc.

The earliest carvings are from 2,000 years ago. The majority of the petroglyphs are by the Anasazi (AD 1 to 1300), Fremont (AD 700 to 1300) and Navajo (AD 15 onward).