Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is a state park of Utah, USA, located a half-mile north of the town of Escalante. A visitor center was built in 1991, and features displays of plant and marine fossils, petrified wood and fossilized dinosaur bones over 150 million years old . The Petrified Forest Trail is a one-mile loop, winding up the side of a mesa to the top where most of the fossil wood occurs. Logs two feet or more in diameter are seen at several places along the trail where it is eroding from the conglomerate capping the mesa. This conglomerate lies near the top of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation. The wood is multicolored and was prized by hobbyists before the Park was established. The logs are believed to be of conifers that were transported by a river before being buried and later fossilized as agate. A 50 foot log is displayed near the trail head and is one of the most complete fossil logs known from the Morrison Formation.The Sleeping Rainbows trail is an optional.75mi loop off the Petrified Forest Trail. This section is much steeper and requires scrambling and climbing over rocks.In 1954 Wide Hollow Reservoir was constructed to provide irrigation for the town of Escalante. The reservoir is stocked with rainbow trout and bluegill, and is popular for water sports including swimming, boating and fishing.Put Escalante Petrified Forest State Park and other Escalante attractions into our Escalante itinerary planner, and watch your holiday take shape.
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dominique_hwang
It is very rewarding to hike in this state park/forest which are full of petrified wood on the trails. It took hundreds of years to grow trees, thousands of years to transform the tree trunks to petri... more »
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jmjbrtw
We stopped there on way to Bryce to see Petrified Forest. It is a state park and admission is $8 per vehicle. There is a nice campground and lake there. We got the map from ranger to hike to see petri... more »
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Utah-Indy
What a nice park. $8 for two us to enter and get the map for the long hike. $4 of you just want to enter the park. Nice campsites, covered picnic areas, restrooms, visitor center with wi-do, dock on t... more »
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