Badlands Petrified Gardens - Kadoka, South Dakota
The Badlands area’s foremost geological attraction since 1956. The Badlands Petrified Gardens, is located in Kadoka, South Dakota.
The Petrified Gardens offer a yardful of petrified wood, displays of minerals which fluoresce under ultraviolet light, and a museum containing both fossilized fishes and fossilized feces (coprolites). It also sells rose quartz, geodes and some specimens of petrified wood by the pound.
Here you can find the largest petrified trees and logs ever found in the Badlands, as well as an extensive indoor exhibit of prehistoric fossils from the Cenozoic era.
Location: 1 1/2 mi. E of Kadoka Exit 152 on I-90, Kadoka, SD
Hours: 7am-8pm
Admission: Fee charged
Phone: 605-837-2448
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“Petrified wood is made up of tree trunks that were buried in the mud, sand,
or volcanic ash 150 million years ago, and has turned to stone. This action is
caused by water that seeps through the mud and sand, into the buried logs.
There it fills the empty cells of the decaying wood with mineral matter, until
the whole structure has become solid stone.”
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