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

• March Field Air Museum — 14 mi
  A century of the same field, still working — the museum parked outside the fence of a base that has flown since 1918.
• California Citrus State Historic Park — 22 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Harada House — 23 mi
  The 1884 cottage a Japanese American family bought in their children's names, and kept in court.
• Riverside Chinatown Site — 23 mi
  Riverside's second Chinatown — an empty lot on purpose, with eighty percent of it still underground.

More markers nearby

• Soviet Transpolar Landing Site — 5.6 mi
• Site of Indian Village of Pochea — 7.5 mi
• Ramona Bowl, Site of the Ramona Pageant — 7.5 mi
• Saahatpa — 12 mi