Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.
Short paved National Park Service loop through one of Petrified Forest National Park’s richest Triassic log fields, named for quartz and other crystals that glitter in broken petrified wood. Rolling gray-and-purple Chinle badlands frame dense concentrations of colorful silicified trunks — a primary geology stop between the south entrance and Blue Mesa on the park road.