Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site
Coconino National Forest Heritage Site (Formerly V Bar V Heritage Site) · Rimrock, Arizona
A Coconino National Forest site on Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley, long known as the V Bar V Heritage Site and now signed as the Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site, with the largest known collection of petroglyphs in the valley. More than 1,000 images — people, animals, spirals, snakes and cranes — are pecked into one long sandstone cliff face, made mostly by the Sinagua people between roughly 1150 and 1400 CE. Some carvings appear to work as a solar calendar, with sunlight and shadow touching certain images around the solstices and equinoxes. A flat walk of about half a mile leads from the visitor cabin through sycamore woodland to the panel, where volunteer guides explain the images. It is about 20 minutes from Sedona. The Forest Service lists it as open daily, from noon on Wednesdays.
Forest Road 618, off I-17 Exit 298, Rimrock, Arizona, 86335, United States
Open daily except Wednesday mornings: Wednesday 12 PM-4:30 PM; all other days 9 AM-4:30 PM (Coconino National Forest). Call the Red Rock Ranger District at 928-203-2900 for closures.
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