Fossil Site Points of Interest in Parks and NNLs

This interpretive kiosk is located at N. Aliante Pkwy & W. Moonlight Falls Ave. The kiosk describes the history of scientific research at Tule Springs, safety tips, park regulations, and a map of the monument.  This area features relatively flat terrain, creosote desert scrub habitat, and views of the Las Vegas and Sheep ranges.

The Fossil Discovery Trail is readily accessible from both the Quarry Visitor Center and the Quarry Exhibit Hall.

Just off the Wilderness Trail, see where lava surrounded living trees to leave behind impressions of trunks and branches in the rocks.

Thousands of feet of exposed rock layers at Grand Canyon provide a veritable playground for scientists to explore and this site tells the tale of a world far different than the one we see here today. With careful eyes the exposed fossilized remains of creatures from an ancient marine environment can be seen.

Giant Logs is part of Rainbow Forest in Petrified Forest National Park. Once an ancient log jam in a Late Triassic river, Giant Logs was the heart of the original national monument set aside in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Visitors walk along Giant Logs Trail through grassland and pieces of petrified wood.

To get to this portal, walk the spur trail from near Park Headquarters and parking lot A. It is a 0.4 mile (0.65 km) to the portal at the junction with the Canyon Rim Trail, (Trail of Time). This portal sits at 1,000 million (1 billion) years ago along the Trail of Time, a period of Grand Canyon history which corresponds with the deposition of rocks belonging to the Grand Canyon Supergroup, some of Grand Canyon's oldest sedimentary rocks.

Built to commemorate the birthplace of First President George Washington, the monument was placed in 1896 by the U.S. War Department at the believed location of his birthhouse. It was moved to its current location at the entrance to the park in 1931.