The Rochester Creek rock art panel is a complex petroglyph site on a large rock promontory overlooking Muddy Creek. The main panel features a large “rainbow” pattern that is seen often in the San Rafael Swell. There are numerous highly stylized zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures.

The Rochester Creek rock art site offers a complex array of intricately caved images. The site is located on a promontory overlooking the confluence of two canyons in Emery County Utah. There are images from Ute, Fremont and Barrier Canyon cultures represented on the panel.

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The Rochester Rock Art Panel from the air.
The Rochester Creek rock art panel is a complex petroglyph site on a large rock promontory overlooking Muddy Creek. The main panel features a large “rainbow” pattern that is seen often in the San Rafael Swell. There are numerous highly stylized zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures. Age estimates range from Archaic to Fremont. There is also modern graffiti and damage from attempted looting on the panel
Three anthropomorphic petroglyphs carved onto a sandstone face at the Rochester Creek Rock Art site in Emery County, Utah. Theses three figures are located in a sheltered alcove on the west side of the site and are presumed to be older than the Fremont petroglyphs that make up the bulk of the engravings at Rochester.
A detailed view o f Fremont petroglyphs engraved on the Rochester Creek rock art panel in Emery County, Utah.
An attempt to remove a petroglyph at Rochester Creek has left the panel badly damaged.
The Rochester Rock Art Panel is a large and complex petroglyph site on a promontory overlooking Mud Creek near Emery, Utah. They style is hard to catagorize being somewhere in between Fremont on and Barrier Canyon Style.
The Rochester Creek Rock art site seen from the juction of Muddy and Rochester Canyons.
A detached boulder at the Rochester Creek rock art panel. This heavily patinated panel may have been engraved when the boulder was at the main panel and rolled into its current place. It may also have been engraved in place.
A bear and an elk nose to nose with an hunter armed with an atlatl. The bear images are identified with the Ute culture.