Where To Find Petrified Wood In Utah

Beaver lake mining district.

Where to find petrified wood in utah.

The agate and chert at this location are white gray green purple orange and red. Petrified wood in the wolverine petrified wood area in grand staircase national monument. On the north side of the road collecting can begin next to the road and continue up the hillslopes. Utah is an excellent destination for rock hounding.

Henry mountains utah petrified wood. Sand creek and really the whole area around torrey is a great area to see petrified wood in its geological setting. East of mill city there are basalt layers covering the petrified wood. Although there are laws regulating rockhounding most of our public land is open and rocks can be collected freely by the public.

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. Kids and those with a geology interest will love spending an hour or more wandering under the sandstone cliff in sand creek looking at the various petrified wood. 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. I have found a lot of petrified wood and agates while canoeing and fishing on the willamette river.

Within the region you will find endless opportunities to ride climb camp hike or paddle. The state s diverse terrain is home to numerous varieties of rare rocks gemstones and fossils. Polished petrified wood fossil from the circle cliffs utah 1120gr.