Judd Creek is tucked in a very desolate corner of Tooele County, I think about 5 miles from the middle-of-nowhere. The small creek, tumbling off the Simpsons Mountains, feels like an oasis from the flat sage brush lands surrounding the mountains. At the base of a jumble of Basalt Rocks near the creek is an impressive area of petroglyphs and one lone pictograph. Clearly ancient people found the area a bit of an oasis as well!

There are a couple of very visible panels at the site, but a close eye reveals many old and harder to see figures and shapes carved into the rock. On our visit, I was surprised by how as the light of day changed, different figures would become more visible and easier to see. In this amateur anthropologist's view, it seems like several areas had been leveled and likely used for inhabitation of some duration over the years. It is an interesting site, that requires quite a bit of travel to visit no matter where you are coming from.

My recommendations is to bring a snack and plan on spending a few hours taking in the glyphs.

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