Hiking Petrified Forest
Beauty here was millions of years in the making
Petrified forest 1
Chunks of petrified wood sprinkle the landscape along Blue Mesa
Trail in Petrified Forest National Park, with blue-grey hills of
Bentonite clay standing in the background.
Petrified forest 2
Turned to stone millions of years ago, huge multi-colored logs
of petrified wood stand strong at Petrified Forest National Park,
east of Holbrook, Ariz.
Petrified forest 3
Along Giant Logs Trail behind Petrified Forest National
Park’s south entrance visitor center, massive pieces of petrified
wood lay trailside. Visited by more than 600,000 annually, Arizona
offers some of the most colorful examples in the world.
Petrified forest 4
Around 1050 to 1300 A.D., Puebloan People built and inhabited an
eight-room pueblo using blocks of petrified wood and clay mortar as
Petrified forest 5
Along Interstate 40 in eastern Arizona are the beautiful low
hills of the Painted Desert. On this day, monsoon thunderstorms
were building on the horizon.