Native American Heritage
People have lived here for more than ten thousand years, and they still do — this was never empty country. Utah is the homeland of the Ute, Southern Paiute (Nuwuvi), Goshute and Shoshone (Newe), and Diné; Nevada of the Numu, Nuwuvi, Newe, and Waší∙šiw. In each language, the name for themselves means simply "the People." Their history here includes dispossession, the 1863 and 1865 treaties meant to extinguish their claims, and outright termination — the Paiute lost federal recognition in 1954 and won it back in 1980. These are living nations on ancestral ground. Visit as a guest.
IR-71
I-10 / I-171
I-10 / I-191
Scenic Byway 121
I-151
I-171
I-192
I-401
US-503
Cave Rock / De'ek Wadapush
One of the most sacred places of the Wašiw—the Standing Gray Rock, a worn volcano the highway was blasted through and climbers bolted for sport, now closed and quiet again after the Washoe's long fight to protect it
Grimes Point
Hundreds of desert-varnished boulders carved over eight thousand years — the Great Basin's most accessible rock art
Hickison Petroglyphs
Western Shoshone rock art cut into soft white tuff at a 6,500-foot summit — the easiest rock art to meet on the loneliest road