点评:We were visiting 6 national parks on a two week road trip. The Petrified Forest was on our way to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. And I would leave it at that. It was on our way.
The park is split by Route 40 going from California to New Mexico. Unless you have a trailer to camp in, the nearest hotels are 20+ miles away and offer limited accommodations. Hence, we were passing through.
Traveling east, we elected to go in through the south entrance off Route 180 which we picked up just outside Holbrook. That way we could go point-to-point on our way back to Route 40 and onto Colorado. Unlike some of the national parks we had visited on this journey (Bryce, Zion, Capital Reef), there just wasn't anything really memorable about this park. The better views were on the northern side where the Painted Forest is located. I can imagine at sunset the colors on the rocks would be pretty extraordinary. Other than wood turned to calcified rock, nothing to see here.
翻译:我们在为期两周的公路旅行中游览了六个国家公园。石化森林就在我们去科罗拉多州梅萨维德国家公园的路上。我想说的就到此为止了,它就在我们去往梅萨维德国家公园的路上。
公园被一条从加利福尼亚州通往新墨西哥州的40号公路一分为二。除非你带拖车露营,否则最近的酒店都在20多英里之外,而且住宿条件有限。因此,我们只是路过而已。
我们向东行驶,选择从180号公路的南入口进入,我们在霍尔布鲁克郊外就上了路。这样,我们就可以一路游览,回到40号公路,然后前往科罗拉多州。与我们此行中参观过的一些国家公园(布莱斯国家公园、锡安国家公园、首都礁国家公园)不同,这个公园并没有什么特别令人难忘的地方。更好的景色在北侧,那里有彩绘森林。我可以想象,日落时分,岩石上的色彩会非常特别。除了木头变成钙化的岩石外,这里没什么可看的。