Giant log, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Photo # AZP9

© Ross V. Walker 2024

Old Faithful, on the Giant Logs Trail, is nearly 10 feet wide at the base and weighs about 44 tons.

Old Faithful, on the Giant Logs trail, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

This log is as important to Petrified Forest National Park as Old Faithful Geyser is to Yellowstone. In 1962 it was fractured by a lightning strike and mortared together, which probably would not be done these days.