Where To Find Petrified Wood In Utah

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Where to find petrified wood in utah.

Scattered on the gray and brown colored hills are pieces of agate chert jasper and petrified wood as well as large black boulders deposited by ancient streams. East of mill city there are basalt layers covering the petrified wood. Petrified wood in the wolverine petrified wood area in grand staircase national monument. Utah is an excellent destination for rock hounding.

South central utah welcome to the swell a natural playground in the heart of utah. Unlike most of the fossil wood in the chinle formation elsewhere in utah and in the more famous and much larger petrified forest national park the wood in the wolverine petrified wood natural area is typically black on fresh surfaces. Sand creek and really the whole area around torrey is a great area to see petrified wood in its geological setting. On the west side of the cascades there is petrified wood in most stream beds from eugene to portland from the coast to the foot hills of mill city.

The agate and chert at this location are white gray green purple orange and red. On the north side of the road collecting can begin next to the road and continue up the hillslopes. I have found a lot of petrified wood and agates while canoeing and fishing on the willamette river. Polished petrified wood fossil from the circle cliffs utah 1120gr.

Henry mountains utah petrified wood. Although there are laws regulating rockhounding most of our public land is open and rocks can be collected freely by the public. The state s diverse terrain is home to numerous varieties of rare rocks gemstones and fossils.