The
Petrified Sea Gardens is a beautiful outdoor park that is home to almost an acre
of exposed Stromatolite fossils approximately 500-million-years old. This
huge slab of fossils was once part of an ocean-reef existing when the area that
is now Saratoga Springs was in the southern hemisphere at the edge of a warm tropical
sea, (the continent straddled the equator) and life was yet to bloom on land.
We are located adjacent to New York State owned
"Lester Park," a smaller outcropping of the same fossil formation. It
is this formation, the "Hoyt Limestone" in which Stromatolites were
first identified in this country.
The trail also passes a series of glacial erratics--"standing
stones" huge interesting rock formations from the last ice-age.
Among many other points of interest along the trail are:
a labyrinth, a Native-American Medicine Wheel, a sundial garden, fossil rock-gardens,
and a huge 300-year-old white pine tree: the "Iroquois Pine."
Our store specializes in affordable rocks, fossils, and
minerals. Picnickers are, of course, always welcome.
