At the beginning of the stone poem path, take a brochure that tells how the author/artist S.C. Dunlap got the idea, wrote the poem, and clustered the rocks, from 1981 to 1985. There are 53 clusters, one for each word clump in the poem. The poem begins at the west edge of the park and progresses to the east. The biggest and last is "to the Great Spirit everywhere". You enter the medicine wheel of rocks from an opening in the west.
The view in the first picture is looking NE by E from the middle of the wheel. The map shows the stones. The yellow pointer shows the direction you are looking, where north is at the top of the map. So east is to the right, south is the bottom, and west is to the left. Use the wheel as a sun dial. At noon, shadows point north. The first picture is about 1:30 p.m.
There are 24 stones in the outer semi-circle or arc, 7 stones in the middle arc, and 12 stones in the inner arc. The large central stone is flanked with four stones pointing in the directions: N, E, S, and W. Here are various views in QuickTime movies, QTVRs, and images.
Walking around the outside of the wheel, looking in:
Looking down at the middle of the wheel:
For a vision quest at the Great Spirit Path, see the Wrinkle 8 pages. The wrinkle event celebrates the September 1999 equinox.
The roots of this project are:
{Wholeo Online} ~ {Trips} ~ {Travel} ~ {Stones} ~ {Sep 99 equinox} ~ {Equinox quest}