High Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon

Summary: High Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon features ancient Barrier Canyon Style art, including anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures.

One of four accessible Native American rock art sites in Horseshoe Canyon, High Gallery (as the name implies) is a panel situated high up on the vertical east wall of the canyon. While there is some speculation that a sand dune allowed the artists to place the gallery so high about the canyon floor, it’s more likely that ladders were used to deliberately place the artwork high on the cliff wall.

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The panel includes pictographs of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures in Barrier Canyon Style (BCS), as well as some harder-to-see petroglyphs. Barrier Canyon Style art is considered to be about 4,000 years old.

High Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon

The panel has about thirty motifs.

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Getting to High Gallery

The first of four rock art panels along the Horseshoe Canyon hike in Utah, it’s located on the on the east side of the canyon 2 miles (3.2km) from the trailhead.

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