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| TR as a pirate on the trail markers |
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| Walk through the prairie until the edge into the badlands.. |
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| All the stumps and bumps are petrified wood |
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| More stumps dot the hillside |
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| Lovely colors & patterns |
Friday, August 15, 2014
Teddy Roosevelt National Park -- The Petrified Forest
Teddy Roosevelt NP includes the 3rd most extensive collection of petrified wood in any national park (Petrified Forest and Yellowstone are #1 & 2). The Badlands contain a wealth of fossil information including petrified trees as well as fossils of freshwater clams, crocodiles, alligators, and turtles. The park was once on the eastern edge of a flat, swampy area that contained dense forests of sequoia, bald cypress, magnolia and other water-loving trees. Today the remnants dot the trail and are a stunning sight.
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I am guessing that any place in the west that isn't green and grassy is "badlands." Badlands National Park is in southwest South Dakota next to the Black Hills. I guess you are not going in that direction?
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