Grimes Point Petroglyph
- Know whose traditional homelands you are recreating on: Native Land
- Please remember these are sacred sites, admire from a distance.
- Do NOT touch rock art. Touching rock art will leave oils from your fingers that may speed the painting’s and the rock’s natural deterioration process.
- Do NOT make paper rubbings or tracings, it may crumble rock art.
- Do NOT make latex molds of rock.
- Do NOT build fires nearby, they can cause serious damage from smoke and high temperature.
- Do NOT take it home. Collecting is illegal and punishable by law.
- Do NOT draw chalk outlines, it is harmful to the rock art, and makes it impossible to use new methods of dating the figures.
- Do NOT re-peck or re-paint a difficult-to-see rock art image. This doesn’t restore it, but rather destroys the original.
- Defacement. People who don't know better often paint their names over rock art, or shoot bullets at it. Defacement is a sign of disrespect for other cultures. It’s also punishable by law.
- Be careful of tunnel vision. People often forget to watch where they are walking and may trample or damage important artifacts.
- Removal/rearrangement of artifacts often destroys archaeological data. Artifacts should be left where they are found.
- Ground Disturbance. Any digging at an archaeological site is not allowed and unauthorized digging is punishable by law.
- Do not take artifacts
If you see people vandalizing sites, please report it as soon as possible by calling 1-800-VANDALS.