While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood, many leave having ... dynamiting logs searching for amethyst and quartz crystals.

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and ...

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in ...

BUT WHAT DID YOU BRING OUT HERE? WHAT’S ON DISPLAY? SO WE’VE GOT SOME AMETHYST. ROSE QUARTZ. WE’VE GOT PETRIFIED WOOD. WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME BEACH JADE HERE. THAT IS FROM HERE IN CALIFORNIA.

Rockhounding is the recreational study and collection of rocks, gems, minerals or fossils, such as fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation known as petrified wood or geodes ... what makes ...