See Fort Piute Petroglyphs, California

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Fort Piute was an outpost of Camp Cady and later of Fort Mohave. It was one of a series of posts built to protect wagon traffic along the Mojave Road and keep local Native American people of the Mojave Desert away from the springs on the route during the periods of hostilities with them between 1859 and 1870. From the remains of the outpost head down to Piute Creek to find boulders that flank an old worn path. Look around these rocks to find many petroglyphs carved into the desert varnish. The rock art is primarily geometric patterns, but some feature wildlife such as bighorn sheep and there is what appears to be a depiction of the sun. It's located at mile 23 along the Mojave Road which required a high clearance vehicle. 

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