ST. GEORGE — The city of St. George is home to numerous archeological sites. With the help of a grant from the state, staff are working to protect cultural resources in one such area, so they "last for thousands of years to come."
Mark Goble, a landscape architect with the city, presented the Washington County Habitat Conservation Advisory Committee with a proposed project at the Diagonal Street Cliffs trail, which meanders through city and Red Cliffs Desert Reserve properties. The committee oversees the Washington County Habitat Conservation Plan, which established the reserve in the 1990s.
The trail is accessible at the top of 400 West, as shown here on Google Maps. Goble said the area is home to "some very significant archeological sites," featuring petroglyphs, which are carved into the stone, and pictographs, which are painted.
Some of the rock writing is located in a climbing area.
So people are going directly on top of the petroglyphs and are touching the petroglyphs as they are doing the climbing," Goble told St. George News. "Some of them might not even know that there's petroglyphs there."
