Low 20's or upper teens last night but I was snug in a motel.
A 45 minute drive from Show Low got me to the southern end of the Petrified Forest National Park. This was a worthwhile day. Most of the petrified trees are down at this end. A couple of short trails go through a probable prehistoric log jam and a more recent pueblo constructed of pieces of petrified logs.
The general belief is trees were uprooted during some massive flooding in the distant past and swept down to the flood plain where the jammed up because of some obstruction. Then they were covered with silt and sediment and minerals. A couple of million years later... petrified forests. Many of the logs look as if they'd been sawn into sections. They are so hard and brittle and weigh so much it doesn't take much change in the supporting earth cause then to break.
The length of the park is 26 miles and consists of several turnouts and several short trails. Mid-way in the park things turn into a mini-Badlands, like those in South Dakota. At the northern end of the park is the Painted Desert that goes on and on. I guess this could be termed badlands also except everything is red.
Not much access to the Painted Desert and most of the park is surrounded by a Navajo Indian Reservation.
To get away from the cold I drove several hundred miles west on I-40 to Lake Havasau City. It was in the lower 70's when I got there just before sunset.