RonnieAdventures #0168 - Fremont Indian State Park, Sevier County, Utah

The area along Interstate 70 near Sevier was once home to the largest known community of Fremont Indians in the World, and the village at Five Fingers Ridge was not even discovered until the 1980s when Interstate 70 was being constructed. Utah designated the site a State Park in 1987 and a museum was construed to preserve the thousands of excavated artifacts. 

Located adjacent the the museum's parking lot is a Pithouse that you can enter and a granary where food was stored.

There are also several hiking trails that leave from the visitor's center and pass numerous rock art panels on the canyon walls. We were fortunate to have a young guide lead us on the hike and we followed some rather steep, rugged inclines up the rocky canyons. Our guide also pointed out petroglyphs of what are believed to represent aliens that visited the site thousands of years ago!