The Black Forest
The Black Forest is a wilderness region in the park's northern unit, and is home to badlands, eroded rock formations and a fair bit of petrified wood.
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The Black Forest Details
The Black Forest is a wilderness region in the park's northern unit, and is home to badlands, eroded rock formations and petrified wood. One of the park's complete trunks of petrified wood, the Onyx Bridge, is accessible via an off-the-beaten-path, 4-mile roundtrip hike. The logs in this area of the park are a bit darker than those in the southern portion, but many of them are longer than 50 feet and spread out over shallow ravines and on plateaus.
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Nearby Points of Interest Around The Black Forest
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0.4 mi away
Onyx Bridge Hike
The 4-mile roundtrip Onyx Bridge Trail offers a dramatic example of petrified wood eroding out of the Black Forest Bed within the Chinle Formation.
0.9 mi away
Lithodendron Wash
Lithodendron Wash begins in the western part of the park and starts as an offshoot of the Puerco River.
1.7 mi away
Chinde Point
The Navajo word "chinde" means ghost or unwelcome spirit, perhaps a reference to the dinosaur bones found in abundance here.
1.9 mi away
Kachina Point
The Painted Desert Inn National Historic Landmark at Kachina Point once served as a way station for travelers along historic Route 66.
1.9 mi away
Painted Desert Inn
This inn has spend almost 100 years overlooking the Painted Desert.
