Petrified Forest Loop News Today

Its time to hit the road—Stacker compiled a list of the best scenic drives in North Dakota using data from Tripadvisor as of March 2024.

About sixty million years ago, western North Dakota was densely forested. Today it is hard to imagine a subtropical forest with trees up to twelve feet in diameter and over one hundred feet tall. In fact, on this date in 1910, geology professor D.E. Willard punctured what he considered were tall tales of massive trees. He assured the readership of the Devils Lake Inter-Ocean that there were no petrified trees in North Dakota.