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