Petrified Forest National Park: Agate House and Long Logs Trail
Petrified Forest National Park is a protected area in northeastern Arizona. Within the park are fossilized trees dating back hundreds of millions of years.
I visit the Long Logs trail and see some of the longest sections of petrified trees and also the Agate House, a reconstructed pueblo made out of the fossilized wood.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
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Day Trip: Petrified Forest National Park 2019
A day trip worth of sites visited in July 2019.
Arizona's petrified forest
This Sunday Morning moment of nature takes you to Arizona's Crystal Forest where petrified logs form a patriotic landscape of red, white, and blue.
Petrified Forest National Park
My June 29, 1996 visit to Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park.
Petrified Forest NP, Arizona. Crystal Forest Trail.
A short 0.8 mile hike through some beautiful petrified wood!
PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK The Crystal Forest Trail
The Petrified Forest: The Agate Bridge
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
20130610 Petrified Forest National Park
We took an unplanned excursion through this national park, and were glad we did! We drove along a 28 mile road through painted desert and a petrified forest. The sites are unworldly!
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, March 14 2017
After visiting the Painted Desert and Puerco Pueblo, we continued on the road towards the Petrified Forest. Between these two areas is a vast wash with a terrific view. You can go hiking out onto the wash and surrounding area. But remember! It is against the law to remove ANY item from a National Forest. Except yourself and loved ones in your vehicle. :)
Petrified Forest National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Petrified Forest National Park
00:03:38 1 Geography
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00:11:57 3 Climate
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Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 627,757 recreational visitors in 2017. Typical visitor activities include sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About one third of the park is designated wilderness—50,260 acres (79 sq mi; 203 km2).The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.
RV Living | The Petrified Forest National Park
We explored the Petrified Forest National Park and were blown away by it's beauty. Everything about this park is unique. And did we mention it is dog friendly!
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Rockin it at Petrified Forest National Park, Holbrook, AZ
Exploring a little bit of the Petrified Forest.
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Petrified Forest National Park
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The Petrified Forest National Park
Information about the Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA). It is currently pending to be a World Heritage Site.
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