For years, Chapel Hill residents would notice them: the intentionally stacked rocks along Highway ... “Gateway to Chapel Hill: Rock Cairn Public Art.” He began all this by working exclusively ...

and you’ll spot the distinctively stacked rocks amid the bigger granite boulders. Known as the Bates Cairns, they’re like miniature stone bridges: two base rock columns, one mantel ...

It would be hard to follow Southwestern trails without cairns. These little piles of rock help guide us along ... The human impulse to stack rocks is difficult to explain, but it’s real.

Allan Thuranira, a seasoned travel guide, says the pile of stones is called a stack ... a trail. Cairns is also used to symbolise a place of peace, calm, and meditation centre. The rock stacks ...

I really wanted to stop and spend some time making my own rock stack, but one of my friends ... These rock stacks weren’t cairns. Cairns are piles of rocks built to mark trails, usually in ...

Rock cairns are man-made piles of rock stacked on top of each other. According to park rangers, Leave No Trace ethics states that when recreating in wilderness spaces, the goal is to leave no ...

These formations are known as rock cairns. Some are small, just a little tower of rocks stacked on top of each other, while ...

"Rock stacks are not cairns in the traditional sense of marking a way, except maybe to mark that someone has been there and decided they needed to build a stack to show they were there," he said.

Robyn Martin writes that there is an annoying plague of rock stacks balanced carefully atop one another in the West. These piles aren't true cairns, the official term for deliberately stacked ...

The rock stacking debate rolls on ... just stepped up a gear as outdoor groups encourage walkers to “kick over cairns”. So when should you knock over stone stacks in the wild?

It seems many people can't resist the urge to stack them like elaborate Jenga ... In backcountry hiking areas, these rock "cairns" serve a purpose, reinforcing trail maps and marking hiking ...

Inks Bridge, every corner of the hillside revealed another bit of improbably arranged nature: rock cairns stacked three or four or a dozen high, a stone beehive hut fit for a flock of porgs ...