The hardest, the crystalline quartz formed in the air spaces that were left behind when the wood decayed and disappeared typically in sedimentary rock that normally erodes away.
I went there when I was 12, and as a dino fanatic growing up, I absolutely lost my mind, so awed to stand in a place where I could essentially... see the trees. The very trees, even if remains in stone, of towering forests where dinosaurs once roamed. I was so overwhelmed, so overjoyed to experience standing in that strange land, barren desert that was once lush and green, I cried. I stood in the visitor center and cried my eyes out. It was such a spiritual experience for me, time traveling, seeing through the millennia in such a real and physically tangible way. I was absolutely reverent to be able to walk among the prehistoric trees and know in a whole new way that this was, indeed, a place where the largest creatures on earth had once lived.
Its nice to see someone understand and appreciate the millions of years our beautiful planet went through before our timeframe! It is to be admired, studied and respected!
DO NOT TAKE ANY PETRIFIED WOOD IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE AND THEY DO NOT PLAY AROUND IF THEY CATCH YOU WITH SOME. PEOPLE REGULARLY MAIL PIECES BACK TO THE PARK AFTER EXPERIENCING ALOT OF BAD LUCK. HARD TO BELIEVE NO MENTION OF THE STRICT FEDERAL PARK LAWS.
Yes. There are other ways of getting petrified wood that don’t involve sneaking them out of a park illegally. It’s better to just buy some or find some in a place that isn’t a protected landmark.
There’s a place here in Wa where people would take all the petrified wood, even going so far as to rip stumps out to take. They had to close it down it was such a problem. Even the ginkgo petrified ‘forest’ is down to a rinky dink trail with some petrified logs encased in concrete and rebar. It’s also why some special beaches have a do not take rocks, because people will take until there is nothing left.
Recently visited this national park, it was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, it was like an otherworldly landscape out there. Felt like being on a different planet. Plus there is some amazing petroglyphs to see and an ancient Pueblo structure. Definitely worth the visit.
It is in a remote location, best suited for those on a road trip out West. It is neat and other worldly. What blew my mind was learning that this forest is so old that it used to be closer to the equator when it was an actual forest. The contents have drifted it all this way north!
@@grantmeyer6097 Yeah. "Oh, look shiney Rocks! Besides, there's X^100 of them, no one is gonna miss one!" There's also a lot on Private property, that people sell... Leave the National Parks as they are...
@@TheMonkey747 I know just kidding ya! I love prettified trees. Have alot to say but a different conversation. Have some petrified trees in a bag in the backyard.
@LanceBeckman Yes, probably does, as back in the 1930s, it was a trend and plenty of petrified wood was sold. Matter of fact, in Glen Rose, Tx, whole homes are made with it. That is ALL.
When I was a kid I went to Teddy Roosevelt National Park and liked the petrified wood so I loaded up my pockets full of it. Little did I know at the time I was committing a federal crime 😅
@@LanceBeckmanin the 70’s you could grab all you wanted but taking more then one piece was discouraged & you might get decked filling a truck up, a far more civilized time
I also have a floor to ceiling fireplace of petrified wood, previous owner too a truck load of it bag from out west. There is a pile of it in mg yard lol
I've got an 8.2 lb chunk my family obtained when moving from Albuquerque to Seattle back in 1958. I wasn't born until 1959 so "The Rock" was part of the family before I was.
Oh. I just had a flash back to this exact place! My mom took us all around the west to all the big parks. I am so grateful we could go there and I remember the landscape was incredible! Painted desert too!
I bought 44 acres 20 miles west of the park boundary lines back in 2018 for only 10,000. Now, the park boundary lines have been expanded to only a couple of miles from my land. It's sooo beautiful here. There is pet wood, fossils, arrowheads, and gypsum everywhere. A dream come true.
This has to be said, don't take any away please. I visited there years ago and a person working there said" too many people have already done it" (more or less). When you get there you want to take one with you. Part of me wanted to.
BE CAREFUL...the captions said these were "pet IED" logs. 1) Who makes an IED (improvised explosive device) look like a log? 2) Why would you keep one as a pet?
True story! I went there as a kid and it was awesome for a few min… then I was bored and disinterested:/ kinda like the Grand Canyon… yep there a huge hole in the earth… let’s go!
You realize it’s not hot in the desert during fall, winter and early spring right? I respect if you just don’t care for the desert, but in my opinion this national park was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, there was so many cool formations to see there and so much beauty. Not many places on earth have that type of landscape.
That’s 30 minutes from me. It’s really neat. Don’t go in the middle of summer with young kids, though. You’ll die of either heat or complaints about the heat. Luckily, at my old house, my backyard was covered with pieces of petrified wood. So I now have a whole box full of them. I also was given two logs. I love fossils and petrified wood. I also love Arizona. My favorite state.
Petrified Forest National Park is absolutely amazing. And while you will see a lot of quartz, what you won't see is amethyst. There used to be a great deal, before taking it was made illegal. Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
I went there as a kid in 1998 and to do this day, those are some of my most vivid memories of childhood. That was and still is one of the most mind blowing things to see! I think that may have been the first time I ever got a feeling of just how long the Earth has been existing before I got here.
Thanks. I haven't been there since I was a little kid, decades ago, but I'd love to go back. My mom took me to collect different quartz on our property up north, along with many other cool (gem) stones, when we'd go up there. There are still old mine entrances, too.
As a kid growing up in Arizona, I had received a gift of mounted mineral samples, which began my journey as a geologist, if only in an amateur way. But I dearly loved rocks!
Is this the park with the "curse"? There is some park with petrified trees that is supposedly cursed. Everyone who took a piece of tree with them had a bunch of horrible stuff happen to em. The park got so many letters from people returning their rocks saying how everything went wrong in their life ever since they took it. They have so many of those letters they put em on display.
It might be! I went there in the late 90s and they did in fact have a huge wall of letters and baggies people sent them, confessing to having stolen pieces, feeling terrible guilt, and sent them back. It's pretty bad juju to take the wood, since these trees can never be replenished. For every piece taken, this forest shrinks forever...
@@feathermerchant I never said the Earth is young. Nobody knows exactly how old the Earth is. I just pointed out a scientific fact. Months, not years after Mt. St. Helen erupted geologists found petrified wood.
@@samueladams1775 *" Nobody knows exactly how old the Earth is. "* Science provides a pretty good idea. How about a source for your claim re petrified wood?
@@samueladams1775 So, you are unable/unwilling to site a credible source for your claim. It does appear there are many attributable to creationists who claim it supports a 'young earth' position. Also, you do realize there may be a variety of conditions, taking widely differing amounts of time to produce the same final results. A not uncommon observation.
I remember we had a big chunk of petrified wood in our garden growing up. I also remember my mom saying that my dad had taken her to the petrified forest before I was born. My dad died a few years ago with no home, hadn't had a job in decades, his kids barely talked to him and his wife left him many, many years before. He was also a depressed and alcoholic. Maybe the curse is correct.
We bought a house in Seattle where it’s front yard was dug fairly deep below the upper hill. It is absolutely FILLED with petrified wood. It lines our entire driveway, garden, pond and everywhere else. It makes great gifts!
I vaguely remember going there and there's a tourist/info sort of center with a bunch of returned pieces of petrified wood from folks that took some and became superstitious.
One tip when you get there, and you should got there, because it's amazing: when you enter into the park, which will be by car, you will drive for a while down the one and only road for a while before you actually see any petrified logs. This understandably makes people very excited when they finally do spot that first log, and you can tell exactly where that is because there's a small traffic jam of parked cars from the crowd of people who are all packed together on the side of the road trying to snap photos of one single petrified log, which is unremarkable as petrified logs go, except for the fact that it's the first one many people have ever seen. But keep driving: there are a several pull-offs overlooking little ravines which are full of the logs, and most of them have logs right next to the road so that it's not even necessary to take a walk off the road to examine some of them up close. However, if you'd like to hike away from the road and deeper into the park you may do so; I don't remember the deails of trails or rules about using then, but inquire at the visitor's center and I'm sure the rangers will have all the info a visitor needs to know about hiking in the park. My main point though, is to remember to not stop--at least, not if there's a crowd--at the very first log you see. Jusr keep driving, because the coolest stuff is farther down the road and deeper into the park. Also, the petrified forest is just one portion of the much larger "Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park," and the other parts of the park are even more beautiful--there's a reason it's called "the Painted Desert." Make sure you give yourself enough time to at least drive the road loop through the the portion of the park away from the petrified forest, and to check out the ancient Puebloan petroglyphs and ruins. I've lived in the desert my whole life and have seen a great many petroglyphs, but the ones in Petrified Forest NP are, I think, the most artistic and interesting that I've seen. Newspaper Rock has to be seen to be believed, and there's no reason to miss it, because like most of the sights in the park, it's just off the main road and easily accessible. Yes, I am a big fan of this park.
When I was 10 years old, my parents and I were driving back from Arizona to Utah. I was so mad how long the drive was taking that when my parents pulled over to look at the forest and I stayed in the car! I regret it so much! I really need to make it back out there!😢 Beautiful place. Utah, Arizona, and Nevada have the most beautiful secret gems that no one realizes!
Reminds me how when my family was on a long AZ road trip, we got up to Monument Valley, pulled up to the gate and my dad was told he could only drive about 5 MPH and it was 7 bucks per person to enter. My dad, who had taken us to countless other parks, did not seem to grasp that the cost was part of park upkeep, and complained about the price and how ridiculously slow the speed restriction was. The speed was even explained to keep down excess dust to prevent unnatural impact of countless drivers, to preserve the state of the valley. Dad turned us around again for what ended up a 6 hour waste of time. I never forgave him for that. I wanted to see that valley so badly.
Stopped there on our way back from Sedona but it was closed. But the gift shop was open so I was able to buy a small piece of petrified wood. It’s very cool!
I wish they called it a lute slicer. Totally tarnishes mandoline shoppers, and conversation surrounding the musical instrument. Nobody plays lute on this side of the world. Imma start a movement🎉
Yes. We have our own petrified forest park right here in Sonoma County California. 😊 No need to drive clear out into the desert. Nice cool shady location.
Correction - Quartz is very hard and strong, it is the impurities that are weak
7 Mohs scale, sooooo
The hardest, the crystalline quartz formed in the air spaces that were left behind when the wood decayed and disappeared typically in sedimentary rock that normally erodes away.
I went there when I was 12, and as a dino fanatic growing up, I absolutely lost my mind, so awed to stand in a place where I could essentially... see the trees. The very trees, even if remains in stone, of towering forests where dinosaurs once roamed. I was so overwhelmed, so overjoyed to experience standing in that strange land, barren desert that was once lush and green, I cried. I stood in the visitor center and cried my eyes out. It was such a spiritual experience for me, time traveling, seeing through the millennia in such a real and physically tangible way.
I was absolutely reverent to be able to walk among the prehistoric trees and know in a whole new way that this was, indeed, a place where the largest creatures on earth had once lived.
Its nice to see someone understand and appreciate the millions of years our beautiful planet went through before our timeframe! It is to be admired, studied and respected!
What a special memory!! Thank you for sharing. 🖤
😢 beautiful
I agree 👍
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DO NOT TAKE ANY PETRIFIED WOOD IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE AND THEY DO NOT PLAY AROUND IF THEY CATCH YOU WITH SOME. PEOPLE REGULARLY MAIL PIECES BACK TO THE PARK AFTER EXPERIENCING ALOT OF BAD LUCK. HARD TO BELIEVE NO MENTION OF THE STRICT FEDERAL PARK LAWS.
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
Right so they can sell it to ya instead!!!!!😂😅😊
sounds like a challenge
Yes. There are other ways of getting petrified wood that don’t involve sneaking them out of a park illegally. It’s better to just buy some or find some in a place that isn’t a protected landmark.
There’s a place here in Wa where people would take all the petrified wood, even going so far as to rip stumps out to take. They had to close it down it was such a problem. Even the ginkgo petrified ‘forest’ is down to a rinky dink trail with some petrified logs encased in concrete and rebar. It’s also why some special beaches have a do not take rocks, because people will take until there is nothing left.
Recently visited this national park, it was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, it was like an otherworldly landscape out there. Felt like being on a different planet. Plus there is some amazing petroglyphs to see and an ancient Pueblo structure. Definitely worth the visit.
WOW!!!
It is in a remote location, best suited for those on a road trip out West. It is neat and other worldly. What blew my mind was learning that this forest is so old that it used to be closer to the equator when it was an actual forest. The contents have drifted it all this way north!
Remember, Please do not remove Petrified Wood from National Parks.
'Touch some rocks', Not 'Take some Rocks'.
Thank you I thought I was going to be the only one to make the comment
@@grantmeyer6097 Yeah.
"Oh, look shiney Rocks! Besides, there's X^100 of them, no one is gonna miss one!"
There's also a lot on Private property, that people sell... Leave the National Parks as they are...
Yeah cuz they only brought in so much! Lmfao bro 🤣😮😂
@@brandongoodbear1351 They should leave with the same Rocks they arrived with, in the same locations.
@@TheMonkey747 I know just kidding ya! I love prettified trees. Have alot to say but a different conversation. Have some petrified trees in a bag in the backyard.
So beautiful. Our planet is amazing
Constantly trying to kill us.
My house has a floor to ceiling fireplace made of petrified wood. The stone was sold from private property. It’s gorgeous.
Sure thing Bubba, and I poop pure gold
@LanceBeckman Yes, probably does, as back in the 1930s, it was a trend and plenty of petrified wood was sold. Matter of fact, in Glen Rose, Tx, whole homes are made with it. That is ALL.
When I was a kid I went to Teddy Roosevelt National Park and liked the petrified wood so I loaded up my pockets full of it. Little did I know at the time I was committing a federal crime 😅
@@LanceBeckmanin the 70’s you could grab all you wanted but taking more then one piece was discouraged & you might get decked filling a truck up, a far more civilized time
I also have a floor to ceiling fireplace of petrified wood, previous owner too a truck load of it bag from out west. There is a pile of it in mg yard lol
Wait a minute, that's not the south pole
He left Antarctica
@@UniverHole_ Really? Here I though climate change was that bad
lmao what i didnt even realize it was him till i saw this😂
That's East pole
The sight of a dead fossilized forest left me PETRIFIED.
Left me Rock hard
Really hard on a chain saw and hard as hell to light
😅😅😅
If you split it into kindling, it might burn better.🤔
Maybe not. 😊
Come on dude it’s Rock.
@@starrr_dust I was being sarcastic 😆
I've got an 8.2 lb chunk my family obtained when moving from Albuquerque to Seattle back in 1958. I wasn't born until 1959 so "The Rock" was part of the family before I was.
Pass it down the generations lol. This was your great great great grandfathers rock 😂
Could you smell what the rock was cooking? 😂
Return it
@@brenta2634Stupid... 😂
Oh. I just had a flash back to this exact place! My mom took us all around the west to all the big parks. I am so grateful we could go there and I remember the landscape was incredible! Painted desert too!
There’s a petrified forest in Florida called Venice Island.
Really? A dear old friend makes her home in Venice..
She used to walk over to the island quite a bit.
I'll have to ask her about it.
Yes but that would involve hard wood and we know venice lacks that. 😮
I bought 44 acres 20 miles west of the park boundary lines back in 2018 for only 10,000. Now, the park boundary lines have been expanded to only a couple of miles from my land. It's sooo beautiful here. There is pet wood, fossils, arrowheads, and gypsum everywhere. A dream come true.
Lucky you!
Careful, we will all show up and build an off grid earth ship... and drop out.. Man!!
“Pet wood”, so cute. 😊
Dude, I'm so glad to hear they expanded!!!
This has to be said, don't take any away please. I visited there years ago and a person working there said" too many people have already done it" (more or less). When you get there you want to take one with you. Part of me wanted to.
Good to see you again dude. Thank you for being you
BE CAREFUL...the captions said these were "pet IED" logs.
1) Who makes an IED (improvised explosive device) look like a log?
2) Why would you keep one as a pet?
It's fun for about 5 minutes, then you remember you're in the desert and miserably overheated
True story! I went there as a kid and it was awesome for a few min… then I was bored and disinterested:/ kinda like the Grand Canyon… yep there a huge hole in the earth… let’s go!
You realize it’s not hot in the desert during fall, winter and early spring right? I respect if you just don’t care for the desert, but in my opinion this national park was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, there was so many cool formations to see there and so much beauty. Not many places on earth have that type of landscape.
I'm not a desert fan either.
Go in the winter, doofus. lmao
- An Arizonan
No. I'd still be awestruck while suffering from heat stroke. 😊
Beautiful
That’s 30 minutes from me. It’s really neat. Don’t go in the middle of summer with young kids, though. You’ll die of either heat or complaints about the heat.
Luckily, at my old house, my backyard was covered with pieces of petrified wood. So I now have a whole box full of them. I also was given two logs. I love fossils and petrified wood. I also love Arizona. My favorite state.
This is in my backyard. I have petrified wood everywhere lol.
Paid a visit there in 2005 it was amazing
Very cool!
Don't miss out on Meteor crater when planning your trip, west past Winslow (It's a girl, my lord,.. that one) and south at Exit 233.
I did actually! Unfortunately my crater video is too long for Shorts
@@JoeSpinstheGlobe Amazing how close it came to destroying the visitor's center!
@@jcadult101that’s an oldie moldie… and I still laugh out loud every time I hear or see it! 😂
@@melinphx1 Thanks, I resemble that remark.
So beautiful thank you for sharing these shots with us! So interesting!
❤
Touch some rocks… don’t take anything!
Can't believe I had to scroll so long to find this.
I will take what I want thank you very much
It's literally posted everywhere at the park. There is plenty on private lands surrounding the park..... I would know as I live 10 miles from it.
My husband and I visited there on our honeymoon. Very cool place!
Think about this...a regular day in the forest...and faster than instantly it was frozen in time buried in ash...just like "Otzi". CRAZY.
Went there as a child it is really beautiful!
Petrified Forest National Park is absolutely amazing. And while you will see a lot of quartz, what you won't see is amethyst. There used to be a great deal, before taking it was made illegal. Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
They look Ionic column drums
So cool, love the video and the science, wish you went more in-depth about it but awesome.❤
Your videos are very intriguing!
I went there as a kid in 1998 and to do this day, those are some of my most vivid memories of childhood. That was and still is one of the most mind blowing things to see! I think that may have been the first time I ever got a feeling of just how long the Earth has been existing before I got here.
So true! Everything there just *feels* ancient
Oh I want to go there sooo bad!!
I know a guy who buys petrified trees and cuts and polishes them. Absolutely stunning. He’s got a 30 foot tree still intact in his shop
Great stuff ! If you love answers that lead to more questions science is definitely ingrained in you.
You'll never convince me, that there wasn't a quartz forest. With quartz squirrels, birds and deer.
It's a great park. So impressive.
due to the very high silica content the petrified wood pieces can be made into tools by knapping them just like chert or flint tools
One of my hobbies is knapping stone arrowheads/tools and that's all I was thinking about lol. I'd love to get my hands on a slab
Tree: Ive fallen and I can't get up.
Very beautiful, stopped there after the Grand Canyon
That was pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
This is a great place. The logs are fantastic.
I was there years ago and it was so cool to see all those petrified trees.
Thanks. I haven't been there since I was a little kid, decades ago, but I'd love to go back. My mom took me to collect different quartz on our property up north, along with many other cool
(gem) stones, when we'd go up there. There are still old mine entrances, too.
Been there in 2003, they also sell them in the gift shop and some of them are expensive
That looks like somewhere I need to go
Was there in 1986. Absolutely a must see in America.
As a kid growing up in Arizona, I had received a gift of mounted mineral samples, which began my journey as a geologist, if only in an amateur way.
But I dearly loved rocks!
But what sort of trees were they?
Thanks for this video
That place is so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Right around that area is an awesome impact crater also.
Also the painted desert! My family went on a huge road trip and visited practically every park on that part of the state. lol
Wow 😯
I guess that cellulose acted like a "grid" keeping the logs intact. Amazing
Been there a couple of times loved it
I want some of that, it's beautiful!
We also have these in Namibia...
Remember never take a piece of that home with you or you're going to have bad luck.☠️
That is so beautiful
"Touch rocks"
The "touch grass" for arid climates
Is this the park with the "curse"? There is some park with petrified trees that is supposedly cursed. Everyone who took a piece of tree with them had a bunch of horrible stuff happen to em.
The park got so many letters from people returning their rocks saying how everything went wrong in their life ever since they took it. They have so many of those letters they put em on display.
It might be! I went there in the late 90s and they did in fact have a huge wall of letters and baggies people sent them, confessing to having stolen pieces, feeling terrible guilt, and sent them back. It's pretty bad juju to take the wood, since these trees can never be replenished. For every piece taken, this forest shrinks forever...
Awesome stuff ❤
You'd be surprised at how fast things actually happen.
Wow, iv never heard of this place before. Sooo wicked!!! ❤❤❤
Fascinating. ❤
Been there twice! Beautiful place.
As a little kid i was disappointed they are all laying down. I was expecting a forest.
Not just quartz. A lot of different minerals. And thanks to Mt. St. Helen's we have proof it doesn't take that long for wood to become petrified.
*" ...we have proof it doesn't take that long for wood to become petrified. "* Young earther in the house?
@@feathermerchant I never said the Earth is young. Nobody knows exactly how old the Earth is. I just pointed out a scientific fact. Months, not years after Mt. St. Helen erupted geologists found petrified wood.
@@samueladams1775 *" Nobody knows exactly how old the Earth is. "* Science provides a pretty good idea. How about a source for your claim re petrified wood?
@feathermerchant do a little research. Mt St. Helen's months after eruption geologists found petrified wood. Not a big secret.
@@samueladams1775 So, you are unable/unwilling to site a credible source for your claim. It does appear there are many attributable to creationists who claim it supports a 'young earth' position.
Also, you do realize there may be a variety of conditions, taking widely differing amounts of time to produce the same final results. A not uncommon observation.
That looks unusually warm for you ;-)
Great channel.
I went with my family when I was a kid, and I enjoyed it. I would like to go again someday.
Haven't been there in a longtime.
Imagine, that dinosaurs looked at those very trees at one point
It's beautiful there
So cool thank you
This is beyond incredibly cool… I want one
It's such a beautiful place
Thats so fucking cool
That’s so cool!!
I remember we had a big chunk of petrified wood in our garden growing up. I also remember my mom saying that my dad had taken her to the petrified forest before I was born. My dad died a few years ago with no home, hadn't had a job in decades, his kids barely talked to him and his wife left him many, many years before. He was also a depressed and alcoholic. Maybe the curse is correct.
one of my favorite places
We bought a house in Seattle where it’s front yard was dug fairly deep below the upper hill. It is absolutely FILLED with petrified wood. It lines our entire driveway, garden, pond and everywhere else. It makes great gifts!
Leaves anyone who works with wood on a daily basis with a series of puzzling questions.
this is gnarly
Brilliant ❤
Protect them!!! I'm not even about that life, but thought about "getting one" for my lounge. 😮😮😮
I've seen so much of that petrified wood that was taken at yard sales and thrift stores, and curiosity shops
I vaguely remember going there and there's a tourist/info sort of center with a bunch of returned pieces of petrified wood from folks that took some and became superstitious.
One tip when you get there, and you should got there, because it's amazing: when you enter into the park, which will be by car, you will drive for a while down the one and only road for a while before you actually see any petrified logs. This understandably makes people very excited when they finally do spot that first log, and you can tell exactly where that is because there's a small traffic jam of parked cars from the crowd of people who are all packed together on the side of the road trying to snap photos of one single petrified log, which is unremarkable as petrified logs go, except for the fact that it's the first one many people have ever seen. But keep driving: there are a several pull-offs overlooking little ravines which are full of the logs, and most of them have logs right next to the road so that it's not even necessary to take a walk off the road to examine some of them up close. However, if you'd like to hike away from the road and deeper into the park you may do so; I don't remember the deails of trails or rules about using then, but inquire at the visitor's center and I'm sure the rangers will have all the info a visitor needs to know about hiking in the park. My main point though, is to remember to not stop--at least, not if there's a crowd--at the very first log you see. Jusr keep driving, because the coolest stuff is farther down the road and deeper into the park. Also, the petrified forest is just one portion of the much larger "Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park," and the other parts of the park are even more beautiful--there's a reason it's called "the Painted Desert." Make sure you give yourself enough time to at least drive the road loop through the the portion of the park away from the petrified forest, and to check out the ancient Puebloan petroglyphs and ruins. I've lived in the desert my whole life and have seen a great many petroglyphs, but the ones in Petrified Forest NP are, I think, the most artistic and interesting that I've seen. Newspaper Rock has to be seen to be believed, and there's no reason to miss it, because like most of the sights in the park, it's just off the main road and easily accessible. Yes, I am a big fan of this park.
I've been there. It's awesome!!!
Yet to this day, scientists say there is no such thing as petrified wood
My grandma took me there as a kid, but regretfully I had no idea of how cool it was then:(
When I was 10 years old, my parents and I were driving back from Arizona to Utah. I was so mad how long the drive was taking that when my parents pulled over to look at the forest and I stayed in the car! I regret it so much! I really need to make it back out there!😢 Beautiful place. Utah, Arizona, and Nevada have the most beautiful secret gems that no one realizes!
Reminds me how when my family was on a long AZ road trip, we got up to Monument Valley, pulled up to the gate and my dad was told he could only drive about 5 MPH and it was 7 bucks per person to enter.
My dad, who had taken us to countless other parks, did not seem to grasp that the cost was part of park upkeep, and complained about the price and how ridiculously slow the speed restriction was. The speed was even explained to keep down excess dust to prevent unnatural impact of countless drivers, to preserve the state of the valley.
Dad turned us around again for what ended up a 6 hour waste of time. I never forgave him for that. I wanted to see that valley so badly.
Stopped there on our way back from Sedona but it was closed. But the gift shop was open so I was able to buy a small piece of petrified wood. It’s very cool!
I wish they called it a lute slicer. Totally tarnishes mandoline shoppers, and conversation surrounding the musical instrument. Nobody plays lute on this side of the world. Imma start a movement🎉
Still have my souvenir from there.
Yes. We have our own petrified forest park right here in Sonoma County California. 😊 No need to drive clear out into the desert. Nice cool shady location.
Epic sunnies my guy. Aviator 62's. Love 'em
Washington mentioned 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
I've been there. It is really pretty!