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The petroglyphs

Along the Barker Dam trail, there is a display of petroglyphs etched on the walls of a granite overhang. The reason they look so visible and clear is because in the 1950's a movie crew shooting a Western on this location painted over them to make them more visible to the camera (what a stupid thing to do). For this reason I read somewhere that the park calls these paintings the "Disney petroglyphs".
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