The Painted Desert is really pretty with changing colors of grays, pinks and reds! At one point you can see 120 miles across the desert to the San Francisco Mountains north of Flagstaff. That distance doesn't show on a photograph, so I didn't even try!
This is Pilot Peak, also in the Painted Desert. This park is worth the trip. We are loving National Parks/ Monuments since we got our Senior Pass. The pass cost $10 and we get into all parks and monuments for $0.00, we just show the pass!!!! We recommend it to anyone over 62.
The Petrified Forest was really cool! I've wanted to go for a long time, ever since I collected rocks as a little girl (that's a long time!) There were full logs and lots of pieces. This picture is of a log bridge. The log is suspended over a small gully and is about 15 feet long! It's a bit hard to see the log in the picture, because it's the same color as the rock around it, but it was impressive.
This picture shows the wood grain in one of the logs. The petrified rocks in Arizona have lots of red in them. They're really pretty. We went to a film at the visitor's center before we started our tour. We learned that the trees started out in a huge swamp and were submerged in water and eventually covered with silt (and then dirt, rocks, etc. when the swamp dried up). All the debris covering them preserved them for us to see now!
This is a log field! Lots of really big logs that we got to walk through. It was really neat to walk through so many rock logs! This was a neat place to visit.
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