Nominated by locals

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park

A hidden gem in Washington

Perched on basalt cliffs above the Columbia River near Vantage, one of the few places on earth where you can walk a trail past 15-million-year-old logs turned to stone, right off I-90.

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