Lemmon Petrified Wood Park, Lemmon, South Dakota

There are 100 cone-shaped pyramids dotting the park. On five to ten-foot bases, they range from eight to thirty-two feet high. Additionally, there are buildings and seats, including picnic tables, scattered around the park. This site is on the Yellowstone Trail.




Flowers bloom in succession all summer
These two are just beginning to open.






Tallest one in the park


Largest "Cannon Ball,"AKA Geode,
in park


Grotto containing hundreds of varieties of petrified wood
and thousands of pounds of pedtrified bones of mammoth animals


Interesting tree trunk, petrified with bowl in the middle





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