Fremont Indian State Park, Utah
Fremont Indian State Park is situated in the picturesque Clear Creek Canyon near the city of Richfield in Sevier County, Utah. Visitors to the park will enjoy the opportunity to discover various ancient artifacts, petroglyphs, and pictographs that were left behind by the Fremont Indians many millennia ago. It was during the engineering of Interstate 70, that the USA's largest known Fremont Indian village was discovered. The Park’s on-site museum seeks to preserve the many treasures that were uncovered at the site, including pottery, baskets, and arrowheads. It is well worth it to spend a day at the museum and take a hike around the park to check out the various ancient artworks that are carved or painted on the walls of the canyons. After that visitors can camp at nearby Castle Rock Campground or Sam Stowe Campground.
Where is Fremont Indian State Park
3820 West Clear Creek Canyon Rd
Sevier, UT 84766
(435) 527-4631
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Who Were the Fremont People?
The Fremont Indians were an ancient culture of Native Americans who were agriculturalists and existed from about 400 to 1300. They occupied a wide portion of what is now the United States, particularly in north and central Utah, as well as parts of Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada. The Fremont people are known by the Navajo as ‘the People Before the Flood’ and archeologists say that they come from hunter-gatherers who once lived in the region and were related to the Ancestral Puebloans who introduced them to agriculture and pottery, thus making year-round settlements a possibility for the culture.
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