Find The Red Lady of Joshua Tree, Joshua Tree National Park, California

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The Red Lady is a Chemehuevi Indian sites (another one “The Brunette Lady”) that indicate the first day of spring and the beginning of their calendar. She’s made of red pigment and can be found in a rock shelter in the Wonderland of Rocks. The shelter is formed by two huge boulders leaning against each other and is believed to be a fertility site. There is also a bedrock mortar near the center of the shelter. There are a few other pictographs in this shelter, but they are very faded and difficult to see. Start at Barker Dam trailhead. Archaeologists to believe that the Chemehuevi or Serrano may have used it to mark the first day of spring and the return of fertility to the earth is this: on the Spring Equinox, the midday sun casts an “arrow of light” that directly intersects the bedrock mortar.

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