A famous ranch located nearly 60 miles to the southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona is now up for sale by the same family that has owned it for the last 80 years.
The 480-acre Rock Art Ranch is known nationally for its thousands of ancient petroglyphs, some thought to be more than 13,000 years old. The rock carvings, which were made via stone tools, were created through the centuries by members of the Archaic, Formative, Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes.
Because of the petroglyphs the ranch has been listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
The Rock Art Ranch, with a listing price of $18 million, includes a steel-framed museum with hundreds of southwestern artifacts, a covered observation deck with a picnic area, and a stream.
Formerly also used for cattle raising, the Rock Art Ranch in recent years has served as a tourist attraction bringing in thousands of visitors a year, including archaeologists and researchers.
One visitor, a reporter for the New York Times, described the petroglyphs thus: “geometric shapes and spirals, antlered animals, lumbering woodland creatures, a woman in childbirth.”
Put up for sale by Braintley Baird, whose family first purchased the sweeping acreage in 1945, the listing is being offered by the realtor Broaddus Properties Group of Flagstaff.
February 18, 2025
By Garry Boulard
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