This park lies just east of Flagstaff. They also promote the painted desert, AZ's version of a badlands, but having seen the Vermillion Cliffs and other badlands, we were more interested in the petrified trees. And they are impressive.
Some sections are as big around as a coffee table and some of the trees lying on the ground are the length of telephone poles. The fossil colors are vivid as well.
Unfortunately, a bout of food poisoning from Southern Utah left our driver's guts anything but petrified, so our sprint from eastern Arizona to Helena had more than average stops (not easily accomplished on I-10 in west Texas) and nothing else fun to report.
Other than a tree on top of an suv driving into a steady winds costs 1.6 mpgs.
But, everything and body made it home to reload for the eastern swing.
And Helena is the first place Marina encountered uncomfortable weather!
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