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.
Virtual Hike: Crystal Forest Trail in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park, located just east of Holbrook, Arizona in northeast Arizona, is special for many reasons. The park is home to some of the most stunning highlights of the Painted Desert, a colorful stretch of badlands that run from the Grand Canyon through Petrified Forest. It's also home to some of the highest concentrations of complete dinosaur fossils found in the world. It's also home to the remains and petroglyphs of ancient Pueblo civilizations. And finally, it's home to its namesake, the Petrified Forest, a collection of petrified wood logs scattered across the terrain, that more closely resembles another planet than it does a forest.
Thanks to a cataclysmic event that took place 218-million years ago, (park geologists just recently narrowed this timeline down from 225-million years ago), this former swamp land that was located near the equator saw the fall of the dinosaurs as well as these giant trees. The swamp sediment quickly covered them and protected them from the elements, allowing the wood to petrify before it was able to decompose. The result is a thousands of petrified wood logs that have slowly started to appear as time, wind and rain have removed the sediment around them.
One of the best places in the park to see the result of hundred of millions of years is in the Crystal Forest. Located in the southern section of the park, this area is easily navigable by a paved loop trail that is wheelchair accessible.
This .75-mile loop trail begins in the Crystal Forest parking area. The easy trail winds past rolling grasslands and badlands. Named for the sparkling quartz crystals that can be found in the region's petrified logs, the trail offers guests one of the best chances to see the petrified wood up close. The formations are the result of periodic flooding and erosion that took place 218 million years ago, when sediment and ash were carried downstream, settling over fallen trees. Over time, groundwater dissolved silica from the volcanic ash into the porous bodies of the fallen trees, creating the petrified logs on display today.
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Giant Logs Trail at Petrified Forest National Park Panoramic View
Large pieces of petrified logs starts the video as it comes up and pans clockwise with views of the surrounding scattered thunderstorms. The Rainbow Forest Museum and visitor center is near the beginning of the video.
Hiking Blue Mesa Loop | Petrified Forest National Park
Hiking the Blue Mesa Loop Trail in Petrified Forest National Park. This paved trail is self-guided through the blueish badlands. It has a steep incline at the beginning and the end of the trail before reaching the loop, though still stroller-friendly. Dogs are allowed and must be kept on leash.
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Blue Mesa Trail @ Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
You will be amazed by the almost deafening silence this spot provides, and you should be prepared to spend at least one hour in this area in order to take in the beauty of the colorful fossils. Before leaving Blue Mesa, make sure to look back upon your hike from the overlook that is accessible from the loop road, from here you can see the vastness of the area you just hiked.
Petrified Forest NP, Arizona. Crystal Forest Trail.
A short 0.8 mile hike through some beautiful petrified wood!
A Walk through the PAINTED DESERT and BLUE MESA TRAIL - Petrified Forest National Park ARIZONA
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Day five of our road trip through the southwest USA tok us from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Flagstaff, Arizona. On our way through AZ we stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park for some amazing views of the Painted Desert and walked the Blue Mesa trail.
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PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK The Crystal Forest Trail
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Petrified Forest National Park - Route 66 Historic Marker - Holbrook, Arizona - May 10, 2016
Hiking First Forest Point, Petrified Forest, Arizona
Hiking from Jasper Point to First Forest Point, in the Petrified Forest of Apache County Arizona's Painted Desert. The National Park Service Off the Beaten Path program allows hikers to get away from pavement-bound tourists. Being on foot means you appreciate the scenery and petrified wood more. :-)
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The Painted Desert Rim Trail in the Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park unit to protect a section of Historic Route 66!
Part of the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park features a strangely beautiful landscape. Erosion has sculpted and shaped intriguing landforms, revealing a treasure trove of fossils within multi-colored layers. The rocks reveal an enthralling chronicle of time that is unfolding and ever-changing.
What can the rocks tell us? Think of the colorful layers of Petrified Forest as pages in a massive book. As the pages are turned, we discover that the words are part of a language we don't completely understand. The pictures in the book help, but we must put together the story of this ancient book with fragmented clues.
Petrified Forest National Park: Blue Mesa Trail
I follow the short Blue Mesa Trail in Petrified Forest National Park in northern Arizona and see some great examples of the fossilized trees.
Petrified Forest National Park: Blue Mesa Trail
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Vacations with my best friend and soon to be life partner. Hope you enjoy the film.
Locations Filmed
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ - Desert View Point, Bright Angel Trail, Rim Trail
Walnut Canyon National Monument, AZ - Island Trail
Aztec National Monument, NM - Aztec West Self-Guided Trail
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ - Blue Mesa Loop, Giant Logs Loop
Mesa Verde National Park, CO - Cliff Palace Tour
Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, CO - Warner Point Nature Trail, Oak Flat Trail
Colorado National Monument, CO - Coke Ovens Trail
Arches National Park, UT - Windows Section, Landscape Arch
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, UT - Donut Falls Trail
Mackinac Island State Park, MI - East Bluff/ Manitou Trail
Oak Alley Plantation, LA - Alley of Oaks
EscalantePetrifiedForestStatePark.mp4
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Utah and near the Grand Staircase and Bryce Canyon.
Petrified Forest National Park-Blue Mesa
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Blue Mesa Trail, Petrified Forest National Park
badlands area
Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
The trees of the petrified forest used to be in a swamp near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago. Through the movement of plate tectonics it has moved into the grasslands of Arizona where the fossolized tree reside today.
Fossilized tree stump along North Crater Flow Trail, Craters of the Moon National Monument
Fossilized tree stump along North Crater Flow Trail, Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve, Idaho.
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