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| - Really nice petroglyphs site. Maybe not as spectacular as some sites out there, but still, VERY nice examples and plentiful. And for all intent and purpose, in the city.
As others have mentioned, need a high clearance 4WD or AWD (I did it via AWD with no issue). And as Ashley B mentioned, the normally listed route in is a slow, bumpy slog, with the quicker/easier way in/out via access south of the Executive Airport (where the airport road, Inspirada, turns into Bicentennial). These routes can be easily spotted on Google Maps, especially on satellite view.
Even though an easy, short, flat-ish hike in, bring plenty of water since this is desert hiking: I went through almost 40oz of water in relatively cool, but sunny, weather.
Trail 100 is the fast route to the site (~2.2mi round-trip), trail 200, longer, more elevation, but has the advantage of avoiding the "Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark sized rock" blocking the trail (as a hiker I passed referred it as), scramble over, which might be a bit of scare to some.
Scroll to bottom of this link to see the routes over/around the big rock scramble:
http://www.birdandhike.com/Hike/Sloan/Blm100/_Blm100.htm
And as others have said, avoid during rain since you might be subject to dangerous flash flooding in the canyons.
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