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Today we are visiting Petrified Forest National Park, our 6th US National Park on our road trip to visit all 63! This is our 96th Daily Vlog, can you believe it?!

If you’re looking for a free place to dry camp, check out our last video!

Here’s what you need to know about Petrified Forest National Park

❇️ Petrified Forest National Park is known for the petrified wood found inside

❇️ The brilliant colors in the petrified wood come mainly from trace minerals. Pure quartz is white, manganese oxides form blue, purple, black, and brown, and iron oxides provide hues from yellow through red to brown and black.

❇️ Theodore Roosevelt created Petrified Forest National Monument on December 8, 1906. Petrified Forest was designated as a national park on December 9, 1962.

❇️ The park boundary encloses 221,390 acres, with legislation in 2004 more than doubling the authorized size of the park.

❇️ Over 13,000 years of human history can be found in the park, including over 800 archeological and historic sites.

❇️ Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park site that contains a segment of the Historic Route 66 alignment.

❇️ Annual visitation to the park is about 800,000 people.

Here’s how much we spent today:
⛽ Gas: $0.00
🍲 Food: $4.70
✉️ Everything Else: $84.39
🏕️ Accommodations: $0.00
💰 Total: $89.09

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