Rainbow Forest
Beginning at the southern entrance station and including the Rainbow Forest Museum is the Rainbow Forest area of the park.
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Rainbow Forest Details
The Rainbow Forest area of the park begins at the southern entrance station and includes the Rainbow Forest Museum. The Rainbow Forest gets its name from large deposits of multi-colored petrified wood. Visitors can access the area via the Giant Logs, Long Logs and Agate House Trails. The rainbow colors of the petrified wood found here are the result of impurities in the woods' quartz, such as iron, carbon and manganese.
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Rainbow Forest
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Giant Logs Trail
This .4-mile loop trail begins behind Rainbow Forest Museum, where there's a trail guide available.
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Giant Logs Trail
This .4-mile loop trail begins behind Rainbow Forest Museum, where there's a trail guide available.
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Rainbow Forest Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum near the south entrance of the park offers exhibits of petrified wood, fossils and dioramas of prehistoric animals that lived in the park.
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Mather Memorial
At the end of a short side trail off the Giant Logs Trail is a memorial to Stephen Mather, first director of the National Park Service.
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Old Faithful
Old Faithful is possibly the most famous petrified log in the world.
