Explore trails through the native prairie, with over 250 species of grasses, wildflowers, and lichens. Jeffers Petroglyphs is home to about 5,000 sacred rock carvings, also called petroglyphs, made by the ancestors of today’s Native Americans.

The Jeffers Petroglyphs site is an outcrop in southwestern Minnesota with pre-contact Native American petroglyphs. The petroglyphs are pecked into rock of the Red Rock Ridge, a 23-mile (37 km)-long Sioux quartzite outcrop that extends from Watonwan County, Minnesota to Brown County, Minnesota.

2019年2月26日 · Jeffers Petroglyphs is an internationally significant Native American sacred site and the location of the largest group of Indigenous petroglyphs (rock carvings) in the Midwestern United States. Situated in Dakota homeland, it is sacred to multiple Native American nations, including the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Iowa, and Ojibwe.

Visit the Jeffers Petroglyphs. Visitors can explore the ancient rocks and native prairie by following two nature trails with views of petroglyphs, prairie grasses, flowers, and a buffalo rub: Sioux Quartzite rock polished smooth over thousands of years by the rough coats of buffalo.

Jeffers Petroglyphs is home to about 5,000 sacred rock carvings, also called petroglyphs, made by the ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Jeffers tells the story of this continent like no other place — connecting visitors to those who lived and traveled in ancient times across what is now known as North America

Jeffers Petroglyphs is home to about 5,000 sacred rock carvings, also called petroglyphs, made by the ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Jeffers tells the story of this continent like no other place — connecting visitors to those who lived and traveled in ancient times across what is now known as North America

2023年4月4日 · Tourists walk atop the quartzite outcroppings at Jeffers Petroglyphs. In the middle of farm fields, on a slab of the same Sioux quartzite that pops out of the sod farther west at Pipestone and Blue Mound, the story of an ancient people is written with nearly 2,000 characters.

Jeffers Petroglyphs in Comfrey, MN maintains ancient carvings some of which are 7,000 years old. A walking path guides visitors at the Jeffers Petroglyphs up the prairie to the ancient carvings. A turtle carving at the Jeffers Petroglyphs is a symbol representing longevity to Native Americans.

2023年8月25日 · The Jeffers Petroglyphs site in southwestern Minnesota. And it remains a sacred site for Native Americans, including the Ioway, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Lakota and Dakota tribes living in the region...

2023年11月20日 · The 160-acre site is best known, however, for the estimated 8,000 Native American petroglyphs (rock carvings) pecked into its horizontally exposed Sioux quartzite outcrops.