Hemet Maze Stone

A rectilinear maze about four feet square, cut into a boulder, in a style found across Riverside and San Diego counties and tied with confidence to nobody. A rancher came across it in 1914, which is not the same thing as finding it. The counter-clockwise swastika in the lower corner is not part of the work: it was cut by a vandal sometime after the 1930s, and photographs from that decade prove the absence. Two chain-link fences stand around the stone now, which is why photographing it is hard and why it is still there.

What the plaque says

This pictograph, representing a maze, is an outstanding example of the work of prehistoric peoples. It, with 5.75 acres of land, was donated to Riverside County as a county park on April 16, 1956, by Mr. and Mrs. Roger E. Miller.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 27 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 28 mi
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