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The Adelbert Doyle Smith Family Archaeological Preserve is a preserve of indigenous rock art located in Utah County, Utah. The preserve's 196 acres contain over 240 panels of petroglyphs made over a span of several thousand years by Archaic, Fremont, Timpanogos, Ute, and Shoshone peoples.

The preserve is dominated by two knolls on the western shore of Utah Lake. The North Knoll contains 145 recorded rock art panels. The South Knoll contains 89 recorded panels.

The land was purchased in the 1950s by Adelbert Doyle Smith, a wool grower, farmer, and cattle rancher. Following his death in 2009, the trustees of the Adelbert Smith Family Trust contacted The Archaeological Conservancy in 2013 to make arrangements to donate the site for preservation. The Conservancy assumed stewardship of the site in 2014 and began developing a management plan.

Access to the site is restricted while volunteers work to build trails and markers. Despite restrictions, trespassing remains one of the biggest threats to the petroglyphs on the preserve. Target shooting and off-roading are popular in the area; the risk of petroglyph-damaging wildfires ignited by these activities is very high in the summer months and some petroglyphs have been marred by shooters.

The Archaeological Conservancy is partnering with Project Archaeology to develop a curriculum local schools can use in conjunction with guided tours of the site. The Conservancy hopes to open the site to the public in June 2019 after trails and markers are established and enough volunteer docents have been trained. .

The Conservancy is currently preparing to nominate the preserve for the National Register of Historic Places.