Petrified Forest

Red Basin, from Off the Beaten Path waypoint 8.

Clam Beds & Red Basin

2021-10-21 Hiking 0

The Petrified Forest is a 221,391 acre national park in Navajo County and Apache County, in northeast Arizona. It is known for its fossils, the stunning […]

Looking down at the Onyx Bridge, across the Lithodendron Wash basin to the unnamed mesa, on which you can see the Painted Desert Inn.

Onyx Bridge

2016-05-21 Hiking 2

What it is, what it was & what it shall be. I had intended to do this as my third Thursday hike, but the battery […]

On the way north, from Jasper Point, I passed The Teepees, which are right across the road from the Historic Blue Forest Trail.

Onyx Bridge?

2016-05-19 Tourism 0

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. After my Jasper Forest Road hike, I drove to the Petrified Forest’s north entrance, near the Painted […]

I saw several "musroom rocks" in this small grove of petrified wood a quarter mile north of the OP.

Jasper Forest Road

2016-05-19 Hiking 2

After finishing my early morning hike to First Forest Point, I drove around the traffic circle to the other end of the Jasper Point trailhead […]