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Summer Solstice and Petroglyphs Petrified Forest National Park
There are many solstice markers in Petrified Forest National Park that scientists from all over the world gather at on the first day of summer to study and document. One is located at Puerco Pueblo, site of the prehistoric … Continue reading
Route 66 Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park is the only National Park that Route 66, the first interstate highway system in the United States, offering 2,200 miles of open road from Chicago to Los Angeles ending at the beach in Santa Monica … Continue reading
Lacey Point Petrified Forest National Park
Lacey Point is named for Iowa Congressman John Fletcher Lacey who was an advocate for protection of public lands. The Antiquities Act of 1906 which protected “objects of historic or scientific interest” on Federal Land is often referred to … Continue reading
Whipple Point Petrified Forest National Park
Whipple Point was named for U.S. Army Lt. Amiel Whipple. In 1853 Lt. Whipple was surveying for a railroad route along the 35th parallel (1 mile South of here) for military and pioneer use. He passed down the broad, … Continue reading
Nizhoni Point Petrified Forest National Park
Four miles into the park we come to Nizhoni Point. In Navajo Nizhoni means pretty or beautiful. Here you will find the site of a 200 million year unconformity. This is a gap in the geologic record. The Bidahochi formation … Continue reading