Good hiking boots are recommended, as you’ll cross or walk around scree. Scratching your own initials into the tufa is considered vandalism so please refrain from doing so.Īs the entire site is exposed to the sun, always don sunscreen, sunglasses and sunhat. The tufa easily can break off, damaging the site or cutting you.ĭo not take anything from the site or move about objects. The lake dried up within 70-80 years, and the Fish Traps site was abandoned.Īs the tufa is fragile, be careful where you step, and do not touch any of the petroglyphs. When the Colorado River’s changed course, Lake Cahuilla was left isolated and as with the Salton Sea today, evaporated. At about 0.7 miles from the trailhead, the artifacts no long appear, so that makes a good turnaround point. Pottery sherds, broken animal bones likely used as tools, and the shells of creatures that once lived in the lake also can be found along the way and in the scree.
Etched into the tufa rock – which is calcium carbonate formed by precipitation from warm water – is a spiral shape, a lizard, etch marks, and other forms that look like either birds or palm trees depending on your perspective.Īncient pottery sherds and other artifacts can be found throughout the Fish Traps Archeological Site. The first set of petroglyphs appears in about 200 feet. Any place in the valley lower than 40 feet above sea level was under water. The freshwater lake covered the southern half the Coachella Valley and all of what is now the Salton Sea.
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The terrain will be full of scree, so be careful with your steps.Ībout 500 years ago, this was a shoreline for Ancient Lake Cahuilla. Hagfish traps are small basket-like plastic pieces that are used to catch hagfish and slime eels around the Pacific but they’re not used commercially in Hawaii. Upon reaching the fence’s end and the foothill’s base, go right/north. Walk west on the rocks alongside the orchard fence. Park on the right/south side of the road. The trailhead is at the point of the curve where Jackson Street becomes Avenue 66. Fish Traps topo map The 1.
After passing 64th Avenue, the road curves east and becomes Avenue 66. The Fish Traps Trail rambles past petroglyphs Day hikers can explore an ancient fishing site on an extinct lake south of Indio, Calif. To reach the site, from Interstate 10 in Indio take Jackson Street south. It sits in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. The 1.4-miles round trip Fish Traps Trail rambles past petroglyphs, pottery shards, bedrock mortars, and other artifacts at the Fish Traps Archeological Site.
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