The Painted Desert Album # 1
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The Petrified Forest begins with The Painted Desert

The pictures speak for themselves.

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P5290274.jpg (77831 bytes) Looking North from Chinde
Point - the area where "Gerti"
was found - one of the earliest Dinosaurs.

Petroglyphs near
Puerco Pueblo

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Arizona's verson of Newpaper Rock in the heart of the Park.

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We didn't have time on this trip to visit very much of the Petrified Forest.  P5290301.jpg (84172 bytes) Much of the Petrified Forest was closed as they were working on some of the roads - we are planning a return trip.