Medicine Wheel and Red Gulch

Medicine Wheel, on the north east edge of the Big Horn Mountains, is a
sacred site to several Indian tribes. None of them claim to have constructed the site. Instead, they believe it predated them. Some have legends describing it's creation. When we visited the site twenty or thirty years ago, there was a fence around it to keep stock out. You could drive darn near right up to it. I could feel the spiritual energy pervading the place. Today, they've a ranger station
1.5 miles down below where the road now ends, and they allow Native
Americans ONLY to place flags and offerings at the site. This results in alot of what I view as junk being left at the place. It's truly changed it's character. On the one hand, I understand that since so much has been taken from them, this is a small thing to allow. On the other, I'm a Native American, too, of Celtic/Teutonic origin and I'm not allowed to leave something there ... When we dropped down off the mountain through Shell Canyon, we saw the dinosaur tracks at Red Gulch. Faint though they are, their presence on beach ripple rock is enough to cause geologists to re-envision the history of the region.