We visited Cocoraque Butte yesterday. It is located on Ironwood Forest National Monument. The road is rough dirt the last 10 miles, and we were the only visitors. Cocoraque Butte is known for it’s hundreds of petroglyphs, “from the millennium of the Hohokam period, ca AD 450 to 1450. They are considered sacred representations of spiritual presence embedded in the terrain of the O’odham cultural landscape.” Cocoraque Butte is also known for it’s “bell rocks.” We took two wooden mallets and Lauren and Taylor tapped on rocks until they found lots of “bell rocks.” Each of the bell rocks played a different but distinct tone. Amazing! We climbed over the hills of rocks for a couple of hours, watching every step we took, as there was broken pottery laying all over the ground. So much to take in and it was a beautiful day!
We had a wonderful time!
