The Macaw Trail is the shortest and easiest in Boca Negra Canyon. This trail shares the trailhead with the Cliff Base Trail, with the latter being longer and nicer. At only .1 miles long, the Macaw Trail simply leads you up and around a loop showcasing some excellent petroglyph examples.

The hillsides of Boca Negra Canyon are littered with dark basalt boulders creating countless opportunities for petroglyphs

A Yucca pod petroglyph signifies the importance of farming and land cultivation among the Ancestral Pueblo

The Macaw Trail is named for this Macaw petroglyph - As Macaws are non-native, this leads archeologists to believe that the Ancestral Pueblo traded with peoples from South and Central America

The meanings of most abstract symbols, like this one, remain a mystery