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Badlands Petrified Gardens – Kadoka, South Dakota

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petrifiedwood.jpgThe 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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  1. Editor says:
    March 27, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Glad to be able to provide at least a basic answer to your question (that’s part of what http://www.southdakotabeautiful.com can do – - sometimes).
    According to http://www.ask.com this is the answer to your inquiry.
    “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.”

    Thanks for asking,
    The Editor

  2. Judy says:
    June 24, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    Good definition of petrified wood, except for one thing — “150 million years ago”. In actuality, due to flaws and difficulties in dating methods, no one really knows how old the petrified forest is. Since we have seen examples of petrifaction that occurred in less than 1000 years, the age of the petrified forest could be about anything. If there were a large flood, for example, petrifaction would have occurred over a very short period of time.

  3. Roger Cruze says:
    September 7, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    We’re going to be passing through Kadoka on our way to Rapid City. We were going to stop but couldn’t find any information about the “Fee charged” for the attraction. I assume you think it’s too high to put on your website, so I believe you. We’ll just save our money and time for other attractions near Rapid City.

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