Petrified Forest Nature Trail Photoset • kingsnake • 2013-09-30 • HikeArizona.COM

Petrified Forest Nature Trail, UT

	2013-09-30
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Petrified Forest Nature Trail

Southwest, UT

Petrified Forest Nature Trail

Southwest, UT

Hiking	2.42 Miles	600 AEG

Hiking	2.42 Miles	1 Hour 8 Mns	2.14 mph
	600 ft AEG

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The second hike of the day, and my seventh in five days on this trip. I was feeling pretty good. My wife started up with me, but the switchbacks were too much for her, so she turned back in favor of the interpretive trail. (I made it up to her by buying her a 67-pound chunk of petrified wood, for her garden, at The Rock Stop, a Flintstone's themed place in Orderville, on the way home.)

When we took our cross-country drive in 2008, we passed through Arizona's petrified forest east of Holbrook, but I enjoyed this more as I actually had the time to get out on my feet, walking amonst the specimens, rather than a quick photo op from a highway pullout. I was kind of hoping for a wider variety of colors though. One neat thing is that the specimens are not in some barren area, but in actual living forest of bushes and small trees.

After the hike, we stopped back in town to pick up some dinner at Nemo's, but two busloads of Dutch tourists had just pulled up, :roll:

so we settled for some subs from the Subway inside the gas station -- much as I have "settled" for Subway thousands of other times. (In my bachelorhood, I ate there five days a week for about six years; my sixty stamped out Subway affinity cards were my hedge against future unemployment.)