Beautiful Downtown Metropolitan Ehrenberg

Ehrenberg, Arizona. It's a little gas station town where I10 crosses the Colorado River. It has a nice truck stop where you can get gas a whole lot cheaper than in California. When I was a kid my grandparents would take me with them to Ehrenberg to buy lottery tickets, because back then California didn't have a state lottery. In Ehrenberg there's a little cemetary, a 'boot hill' if you like. It's a historical landmark now.

Take a closer look at the rock on top of the tower. It has glyphs on it! I figure some well meaning soul thought it would make a great pinnacle to a great monument.
Before I go on a witch hunt here, I think I'll make a few phone calls and find out if there wasn't some type of exemption or special circumstance that permitted this. If not, I hope to make this an example of 'what not to do.' I'm certainly not going to ask anyone to take it down.
Of course, I could just be spinning my wheels. Maybe someone else has already tackled this issue and an agreement already met. I'll post updates here on my blog.

V Bar V Petroglyphs

Ok, someone suggested that it was a cop out not to post a photo of the glyphs at V Bar V site, so here's one. The site is pretty interesting. If you look at the glyphs closer to the ground, you can see that they're pretty dense in number, many are right on top of eachother. Higher up are the more distinct glyphs. The guide at the site pointed out that the creek that ran nearby would flood out occasionally and deposit soil up against the glyph panel. There was evidence of an archaeological dig, and it's said that there are glyphs on the panel that are as much as four feet underground. So at one point, these glyphs were as much as 12 feet above ground. Not bad for a group of people that were estimated to be about five feet tall.

Beaver Creek

This is Beaver Creek. Actually it's Wet Beaver Creek as there is a Dry Beaver Creek nearby. So let's recap...this is Wet Beaver Creek. The frat boy in me is just dying to take this and run with it! But I'll opt for a little maturity and just share this great pic instead.
Just a mile away is the V-Bar-V petroglyph site. Pretty nice, and there was a really helpful volunteer who gave a little history about the site and the preservation effort. He even described what was believed to be a birthing site nearby. Even gave me enough vague directions as to where it was. Shouldn't tempt me like that! Hell, a sure fire way to get me to go somewhere is to tell me to stay away! It seems to me that the people who hold my leash would exploit that quality of mine, but they never do.
I'd put a pic up of the glyphs, but they're probably the most photographed in Arizona, so I'll spare you.