PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK - A Meteor

The last part of our 450 mile loop around Navajo Nation started in Petrified Forest National Park. We arrived there on March 31st and spent 3 days exploring the park. We were here 35 years ago with our son and it looks pretty much as I remember it. In dinosaur times this was once a fertile ocean valley with many types of life and vegetation. Its Possible when the meteor hit that IT changed everything!
                                                 
                                                                                   

The desert was in spring time bloom

Huge trees frozen in time!

Inside the old Fred Harvey Painted desert Inn 1940's

Fred Harvey painted desert Inn 1940's - 1960's

Meteor Crater East of Holbrook, Arizona

North of Flagstaff, Arizona on Hyw 89

Over 1,000 Hopi's lived here at one time!

On the Road again!

Pipe Spring NM Hwy 89A heading to ZION NP

Pipe Spring was an old Mormon settlement in the 1880's