Petrified Forest, AZ 10-22

Here are pictures of some of the petrified wood. This was a painful park for me to be in because you can’t pick up any rocks or petrified wood and take them home with you! So many pretty rocks! During the Triassic Period this area was covered in forests. Hard to imagine.

Some of these trees looked like they had been bucked up and were waiting for the splitter! They had gorgeous colors and at one time many had amethyst and quartz crystals in them, but have been vandalized over the years. Back at the turn of the 20th century before it was a park and sometimes even after, people would come here with wagons and trucks and haul out tons of petrified wood. It is wonderful that it has been preserved.

There are private lands all around where people collect the petrified wood and there are places that sell it all over the place here.

We are heading for the Grand Canyon so expect another overdose of pictures!