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West, Montana
Gallatin Petrified Forest MT
Tom Miner Basin
Fossil site Documented siteLicence or permit
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Petrified woodPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Jon Sullivan (Public domain).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: 50-million-year-old standing petrified forest above Paradise Valley, one of few US federal sites where wood may legally be kept
Custer Gallatin NF administers a formal petrified wood free-use permit for the special management zone; interpretive trail documented
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
12 miles of gravel with drop-offsGrizzly country, afternoon storms at elevation
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