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West, Washington
Saddle Mountains WA
Mattawa petrified wood
Fossil site Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Petrified wood
OpalAlso reported: agatized wood.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Jon Sullivan (Public domain), Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: BLM ridge above the Columbia where diggers recover Miocene petrified wood, Washington's state gem
BLM's own visit page names the Saddle Mountains as a long-standing recreational petrified wood collecting site
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Steep rutted 4WD tracksSummer heat, rattlesnakes, no water
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