The Carrot Men Pictograph site in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The site is famous for its name sake “carrot” men, but it also contains blue Fremont paintings.

Canyon Pintado (Painted Canyon) National Historic District encompasses a series of rock art sites along 15 miles of State Highway 139 in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. People have occupied the canyon for a minimum of 11,000 years and the rock art comes from a number of those cultures. The sites include Fremont, Ute and Barrier Canyon styles of paintings and petroglyphs.

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The Carrot Men Pictograph site in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The site is famous for its name sake “carrot” men, but it also contains blue Fremont paintings.
Ute horses carved into a sandstone wall in Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Fremont pictographs in Pintado Canyon National Conservation Area.
A Fremont decorated shield in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. There are chisel marks around the shield image from an attempt to remove the petroglyph.
A painted Fremont petroglyph in Pintado Canyon National Conservation area.