Petrified Forest

Location Description

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These abrupt shifts in the landscape continue to amaze...
Chunks of Petrified Wood. They have not been...
One such segment. The NP loses about a ton of petrified...
Basically the trees fell down in a swamp, were covered...
... leaving a crystallized interior.
There may be more petrified logs under these dunes.
This area is known as "Bad Lands" because of the...
How would you like to make your way across that?
With the occasional dune thrown in.
It also was about 100 degrees and those metal railings were hot.
More dunes with amazingly colorful strata.
Ditto on the other side
Close up of a petrified log, shattered into segments.
Ah .. pretty car. Just had her 'detailed' for her...
Called the "Tepees" for obvious reasons
Supposedly there were such pictographs on the rock below...
Oh ... and across the road from the dunes is open prairie.
A little further north we get into "Painted Desert" land
Dad and the good-looking car. Or the car and the...
Road taking off for the Painted Desert.
Quite a bit of color in the landscape
Happy lady ... it was about 100 degrees.
Enormous raven who was considering joining us for our...
The original "Fred Harvey" inn / restaurant in the park...
View from Fred Harvey's across the Painted Desert
Kind of like how this turned out.
Some more Painted Desert. Makes you want to study...
Went up to Holbrook AZ for the night which is on...
There are fifteen Wigwams with a diameter of 14 feet at...
Most of the cars parked around are pretty old, but this...
More typical of the era
Driving home on Sunday we stopped at Theodore Roosevelt...
If that lake looks hot, it's because it was. Around...
Car still looking good
Me too, I guess
Our turkey salad and cucumbers looking a little worse...
There were a few boats on the lake ... but not many...
So sad ... someone using the State Cactus for target...