Where To Find Petrified Wood In Utah

Polished petrified wood fossil from the circle cliffs utah 1120gr.

Where to find petrified wood in utah.

Within the region you will find endless opportunities to ride climb camp hike or paddle. 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. Utah is an excellent destination for rock hounding. 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 state s diverse terrain is home to numerous varieties of rare rocks gemstones and fossils. On the north side of the road collecting can begin next to the road and continue up the hillslopes. East of mill city there are basalt layers covering the petrified wood. The agate and chert at this location are white gray green purple orange and red.

Chalcopyrite quartz chrysocolla cuprite azurite calcite diopside garnet hematite malachite magnetite muscovite pyrite. Beaver lake mining district. 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. South central utah welcome to the swell a natural playground in the heart of utah.

I have found a lot of petrified wood and agates while canoeing and fishing on the willamette river. 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. Although there are laws regulating rockhounding most of our public land is open and rocks can be collected freely by the public.