Petrified Forest National Park, Meteor Crater, & Route 66 Ghost Towns

Описание: We're still going!! Back to our 2023 Desert Southwest Road Trip!! We are visiting our 4th National Park in 5 days!! In this video, we are at the Petrified Forest National Park, then onto Arizona's Meteor Crater and then finishing the day exploring some old Route 66 ghost towns!!
Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles, encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands It's known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago.
Arizona's Meteor Crater was created 50 thousand years ago. The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 ft across. The meteorite struck at up to 45,000 mph, and about half of the impactor's bulk is believed to have been vaporized during its descent through the atmosphere. Impact energy has been estimated at 10 megatons TNTe.
2 Guns, Arizona & The Apache Death Cave: Two Guns is a ghost town in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. As white settlers began to populate the area in the mid-19th century, Two Guns was recognized as an ideal place to cross Canyon Diablo, first by wagon, then later by vehicle. Two Guns was the site of a mass murder of Apaches by their Navajo enemies in 1878. Some Apaches had hidden in a cave at Two Guns to avoid detection, but were discovered by the Navajos, who lit sagebrush fires at the cave's exit and shot any Apaches trying to escape. The fire asphyxiated 42 Apaches, after which they were stripped of their valuables. The murder site is referred to as the "death cave." (However, this story has been disputed). During the winter of 1879–80, Billy the Kid and his outlaw gang hid in the ruins of a stone house and corral on the west rim of Canyon Diablo across from Two Guns.

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