For many travelers, Petrified Forest may be a stop to somewhere else, like the Grand Canyon, but this national park is special in its own right.

For many travelers, Petrified Forest may be a stop to somewhere else, like the Grand Canyon, but this national park is special in its own right.

This is cool, but weird. It looks just like what I think Mars must be like,” said our son, Oliver. My husband, our three boys, and I were standing at an overlook gazing out across the Painted Desert ...

Should You Visit Petrified Forest National Park? Road trippers can stretch their legs on a family-friendly hiking trail and see a stone tree. For those yearning to discover a landscape from an old ...

Of the three national parks in Arizona, PEFO has the fewest yearly visits (559,000 in 2024), likely due to its remote ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, this time the discovery of North America's oldest known ...

Petrified Forest became a national monument in 1906, one of the first to earn such a designation under the American Antiquities Act passed that same year. The move was designed to protect the ...

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