Enjoying a backpacking hike is a fun and exciting excursion. You can add to the excitement by searching for artifacts and pieces of history on your trail backpacking adventure. Depending on where you plan your backpacking hike routes, you may encounter ancient burial grounds, areas once used for hunting and survival, or even Native American living areas where you can find pottery or other creations. By keeping a keen eye on your surroundings, you might be able to turn your backpack hiking trip into an educational and historical adventure.

Before you pick up that interesting arrowhead or piece of bone as a souvenir from your backpacking hike, take a moment to think about what you’re doing. Your find could be a very important part of a much larger archeological discovery. Your trail backpacking could have led you to an ancient burial ground. Or, the piece might be nothing at all. Unless you’re an archeologist, you have no way of knowing.

The best advice is to take a picture and leave the object where it is. By definition, the National Parks Service says that any object over fifty years old is considered an artifact. Removing that object from where you found it or from the park itself could cost you in many ways. The Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGRA) has strict rules and regulations in place to protect Native American artifacts.

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