In the first of the Photo of the Week series!

The view from Pilot Rock

This is a view looking southeast from the extreme northwest corner of the park, about 8 1/2 miles from my office. The large black hill is pilot rock, the highest point in Petrified Forest. The area is beautiful and about as remote as you can get. While most people access this by foot we took the service road which take about 2 hours. A brief survey for archaeology was conducted here several years ago and found sites on both the volcanic plug and surrounding grasslands. The sites mostly consist of slab lined architecture and petroglyphs.