Blogs from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States, North America - page 3

The petrified forest was just amazing... we'll let the pictures speak for themselves! All the logs you see are actually stone, thus the name petrified forest. They are 225 million years old.... this place used to be a sub tropical forest!... read more

Shay here, sitting in a KOA campground in Holbrook, AZ. This place has the works! Free wi-fi, showers, a pool. We are in heaven. And no bugs! It's hot, but that's to be expected in a desert, I guess. The big to-do today was that Kate woke up this morning covered in a poison ivy rash. Poor thing. So she spent the day trying not to scratch and rinsing herself off with special soap every chance she got, while I searched for a pharmacy for more itch stuff and then spent the afternoon at a laundromat washing all our clothes and sleeping bags. She did get to relax in the pool for awhile, which cooled her off and helped with the itching. The rash seems to be clearing up and she's doing much better tonight. And ... read more

Since today's major attraction - Painted Desert and Petrified Forest - was at the west of Gallup, NM, I had to drive backward (to the west) for about 80 miles. Painted Desert and Petrified Forest were two national parks in one. Here you could see beautiful desert with colors so vibrant that you would not normally imagine for a desert. The colors ranged from pink, orange, purple, and red at the front park to black, gray, brown, and yellow at the back park. The petrified woods were from a forest dated back to the pre-dinosaurs age. The polished ones in the visitor center were beautiful. Those left in the wild were much rougher but carried with a lot of characters. There was also an Indian pueblo ruin site in the park. Ancient Indian lived here thoundsands ... read more