Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California. Pictographs and petroglyphs are common throug
Painted Cave, Santa Barbara County, California
Exterior of Painted Cave
Aerial view of Painted Rock
Interior of Painted Cave
Painted Rock is a smooth horseshoe-shaped marine sandstone rock formation with pictograph rock art about 250 feet across and 45 feet tall near Soda Lake within the Carrizo Plain National Monument on t
Rock art of the Chumash people
…the Sierra Madre Mountains. The most easily accessible example is at Painted Cave State Historic Park, which is located in canyons above Santa Barbara. Painted Rock is a free-standing rock on the Carrizo Plain near the Sierra Madre Mountains at the southern tip of the Great Central Valley. The interior alcove of…
Aerial view of Painted Rock looking south, taken February, 2019.
Pictograph at Painted Rock.
View north to Soda Lake.