This Hidden Treasure is one that upon further research is probably not that Hidden at all, but more like an Overlooked Treasure! It has been described as the oldest attraction in Disneyland, being aged between 55 million and 70 million years old. The Petrified Tree's remains was purchased by Walt Disney and family in 1956, from the Pike Forest Fossil Beds in Colorado.
After residing at the Disney residence for more than a year, Lilian Disney presented the tree to Disneyland after deciding it was too big for their home! There is an inscription beneath the tree which reads:Petrified Tree
from the Pike Petrified Forest, Colorado
This section weighs five tons and measures 7 1/2 feet in diameter. The original tree, estimated to have been 200 feet tall, was part of a sub-tropical forest 55 to 70 million years ago in what is now Colorado. Scientists believe it to be of the Redwood of Sequoia Species. During some prehistoric era a cataclysmic upheaval caused silica laden water to overspread the living forest. Wood cells were changed during the course of time to sandstone. Opals were formed within the tree trunk itself.
Presented to Disneyland
by
Mrs Walt Disney
September 1957
from the Pike Petrified Forest, Colorado
This section weighs five tons and measures 7 1/2 feet in diameter. The original tree, estimated to have been 200 feet tall, was part of a sub-tropical forest 55 to 70 million years ago in what is now Colorado. Scientists believe it to be of the Redwood of Sequoia Species. During some prehistoric era a cataclysmic upheaval caused silica laden water to overspread the living forest. Wood cells were changed during the course of time to sandstone. Opals were formed within the tree trunk itself.
Presented to Disneyland
by
Mrs Walt Disney
September 1957
Perhaps this is where the Sequoia Lodge in Disneyland Paris got its name from?
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