Red Rock Canyon State Park Archive

  • The Red Rock Canyon Pictograph and Rock shelter site has eluded me up until this point. I had heard of it, but wasn’t able to locate it. When I finally found it, it was completely coincidental as I was just out for a short hike, when I recognized the rock shelter in the distance from photos that I had previously...

    Red Rock Canyon Pictographs and Rock Shelter

    The Red Rock Canyon Pictograph and Rock shelter site has eluded me up until this point. I had heard of it, but wasn’t able to locate it. When I finally found it, it was completely coincidental as I was just out for a short hike, when I recognized the rock shelter in the distance from photos that I had previously…

  • UPDATED: 4/16/13 Cantil was established in either 1908 or 1909 as a stop on the Nevada and California Railroad. The first homesteaders didn’t arrive in the area until 1911, at which time they found the name “Cantil” on a sign beside the platform next to the railroad. Before the communities first post office was established in 1916, the train would...

    Cantil, CA

    UPDATED: 4/16/13 Cantil was established in either 1908 or 1909 as a stop on the Nevada and California Railroad. The first homesteaders didn’t arrive in the area until 1911, at which time they found the name “Cantil” on a sign beside the platform next to the railroad. Before the communities first post office was established in 1916, the train would…