Petrified Forest

Approaching the Petrified Forest


In the distance, the San Francisco mountain peaks could be seen. These mountains are north of Phoenix.


The Petrified Forest offered a great museum showing fossils and petrified wood from around the USA. Clearly, the AZ petrified wood is the most colorful. Unfortunately about 1 ton of petrified wood is stolen from the park a month. Pictures from previous decades reveal mounds of wood all across the desert.

Salt River Canyon Wilderness

Coronado National Forest

We discovered another rare crested saguaro.


We traveled past several extremely large mining places as we headed north to the Painted Desert.










We traveled through a tunnel in the mountainside.

Arizona Day #2

Bottlebrush


Figs on palm


Roadrunner




Copper mines


Crested Saguaro






Saguaro that fell recently

Sunsets and more