Saturday, August 7, 2010

Petrified Forest National Park

The trip from Albuquerque is only 322 miles. We headed out early planning to visited the Petrified Forest National Park during the day. We decided on a late breakfast or early lunch so we pulled over in Holbrook Arizona. Don’t look for lunch at the Uranium CafĂ©, it’s closed. The Wigwam Motel is still open and even through it is an interesting historic landmark I was not tempted to spend the night. But I did take pictures. Only local food consisted of McDonald’s. So much for local color.
Petrified Forest National Park is along Route 66 between Holbrook and Navajo, Arizona. Petrified wood at the Petrified Forest National Park is also solid quartz. The wood weights 168 pounds per cubic foot and is so hard it can only be cut with a diamond tipped saw. Only about 10% of the prehistoric petrified forest is included within the National Park. Even though it is against the law to remove the rocks from the park, he rangers estimate they loose about one ton each month to theft.

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