While driving from Colorado into Utah up to Arches National Park, I stopped to see a few places. About 12 miles off the main drag (US 191) is Newspaper Rock, a large rock panel inscribed with literally hundreds of petroglyphs, created by people of the Archaic, Anasazi, Freemont and Anglo cultures. It is now either a National Historical Site or a State Historic Monument, depending on which Internet page you read.
Here's another shot from a different angle.
Near the intersection of US 191 and Utah 211 (the side road that leads to Newspaper Rock, and to one entrance of Canyonlands National Park) is Church Rock, so named because of a story about a utopian community allegedly having plans to hollow part of it out and use the resulting space as a church.
Further on up US 191, but well to the south of Arches NP is Wilson Arch.
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