Jessica Wandering

Photos and thoughts on my travels

Petrified Forest

Such a weird place.
Having lived in Seattle a long time, I can easily see these big logs as red cedars just fallen. But they were buried in mud thousands of years then the sandstone wore away to expose the rock they had become.
It’s so cool how you can still see the grain of the wood.
And the rings
And it’s just everywhere!!!!
And it is so neat that it all breaks crossways. This is because it was still buried when the earth started shifting upward so the rock was pushing it up and it broke from below.
And some petroglyphs to remind you that people lived here and documented the birds etc…
The people built houses out of the petrified wood. This is Agate House.
The Park Service rebuilt the roof to envision life there better.
Each individual brick is so beautiful…

It’s out of the way. There aren’t really any trees. But it is just so weird and neat. It’s is worth some extra driving if you are nearby.

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    kushneza

    We got to talk to a volunteer ranger here and he gave us a private intro to the breaking bridge of petrified wood. This must be the least funded of the national parks but is really unlike all the others. Definitely worth seeing if you’re driving from Flagstaff to Albuquerque or Durango.

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