Petrified Forest National Park contains the petrified remains of 225 million-year-old trees from the Late Triassic. This means tree trunks that look like wood but are actually stone. Quite beautiful and a bit wierd really.

The northern part of the park is called the Painted Desert. The colorful mudstones and clays are composed of bentonite, a product of altered volcanic ash, and are really pretty and a bit eerie. We walked though a valley of pink, and grey coloured hills of clay and mud, and discovered why they call it “badlands”—eerie.

The park also had some old pueblo ruins and many dinosaur fossils. The light was failing as we arrived so only a few photos to share.