Where to Find Petrified Wood in Texas
Texas has 15 mapped collecting spots that report petrified wood, spread across 15 counties. The largest share sits in Bastrop County with 1 spot. 15 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Map of 15 petrified wood collecting spots in Texas
Standout petrified wood spots in Texas
Hand-picked from the full list below, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Colorado River at Smithville
Bastrop County
The Colorado River at Smithville is a navigable Texas river, so its bed is state-owned public land, and the City of Smithville maintains free river access at Vernon L. Richards Riverbend Park beneath the Highway 71 bridges.
Ladonia Fossil Park
Fannin County
The North Sulphur River channel at Ladonia cuts into Late Cretaceous marine beds that yield shark teeth, mosasaur teeth and bone, ammonites, and Exogyra oysters.
Davy Crockett National Forest (Ratcliff Lake)
Houston County
The Davy Crockett National Forest sits in the petrified-wood belt of East Texas, where silicified and agatized wood weathers out of Catahoula and Manning Formation gravels alongside jasper and agate.
Brazos River at Brazos Park East
McLennan County
The Brazos is a navigable Texas river, so its bed is state-owned and open to public use where reached from a public access point.
Sam Houston National Forest (Double Lake)
San Jacinto County
Sam Houston National Forest carries petrified palm wood, the official Texas state stone since 1969, along with agate, jasper, and chalcedony weathered from young Gulf Coastal Plain gravels.
Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland (Black Creek Lake)
Wise County
The Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland exposes Cretaceous limestone full of fossil oysters along its ridges, plus agate, chert, and petrified wood in its sandy soils.
Best counties for petrified wood in Texas
Ranked by the number of mapped petrified wood spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Bastrop County1 spot
- Burleson County1 spot
- Comal County1 spot
- Fannin County1 spot
- Fayette County1 spot
- Gonzales County1 spot
- Houston County1 spot
- Hudspeth County1 spot
- Lavaca County1 spot
- Madison County1 spot
- McLennan County1 spot
- Reeves County1 spot
- San Jacinto County1 spot
- Trinity County1 spot
- Wise County1 spot
Every petrified wood spot we track in Texas
Sorted by county. Coordinates open in Google Maps.
Before you go
Read the petrified wood identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Petrified Wood in the encyclopedia.
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