Stock photo: Agawa Rock Pictographs Trail Lake Superior Lake Superior Provincial Park Ontario Canada

Stock photo of Agawa Rock, a cliff face along the Agawa Pictographs Trail in Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

Agawa Rock, Agawa Rock Pictographs Trail, Lake Superior, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Of the hundreds of known Ontario sites, Agawa Rock is the most well-known and by far the most dramatic. Today, a large sign marks its location off Highway 17 on the northeast shore of Lake Superior. Special visitor's pamphlets are provided by the provincial government as an aide to tourist, and improved trails with wooden stairs have been built to accommodate people making a land approach to the site. It is very rough terrain, complete with deep crevasses and shear rock faces common along a geologic fault. The trails are an engineering feat that emphasizes the difficulty of approaching Agawa Rock by land. Ancient approaches were made by water, and it is obvious at least some were painted from a canoe bobbing in Lake Superior, because they are impossible to reach by foot. There are, or were, 37 pictographs on Agawa Rock. Some are considered to belong to a set or sets and others stand alone and were clearly rendered by different artists.