Petrified Forest National Park and Onyx Bridge

The painted forest (Chinle sandstone). This was taken from the trail climbing back to the car.

Onyx Bridge, a very long piece of a single petrified conifer from 210,000,000 years ago (Triassic era). Prior to 2019 the piece that starts at center of the image above and moves right spanned the wash and there was no break at the end of the dark brown section. The image below shows what it looked like in 2018: a more impressive structure.

Joan on the return hike, crossing Lithodendron Wash (a great name). This was a boring hike and, on the way out, the  route finding was tricky as there are no markings, just a reasonably accurate handout from the Park’s visitor center.

Nice petrified wood logs are everywhere in this area.