Gazing across the Painted Desert of northern Arizona today, it’s hard to believe that 200 million years ago the region was a primeval tropical forest watered by abundant streams and inhabited by a ...

For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

Of Arizona’s three national parks, Petrified Forest is the least visited. That’s a shame, since it is absolutely stunning. Though named after the fields of petrified wood, that’s only one reason to ...

To the east of Holbrook, just off the I-40, is one of the most otherworldly parks to visit in Arizona. Petrified Forest National Park, known for its striated badlands and its Rainbow Forest filled ...

Within the boundary of the national park is found evidence that early man lived in and among the ancient forest of stone. Here, on a sandstone boulder known as "Newspaper Rock," early Native Americans ...

Petrified Forest National Park is creating treks that show off the backcountry Hikers should be well supplied and able to navigate without trails Highlights include petrified wood and Native American ...

This is the tenth Thelma and Louise national park trip that I have taken with my long-ago college roommate Karen. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and I live in New Hampshire, and we get together once a ...

ARIZONA (KGUN) — The Petrified Forest National Park was formed more than 200 million years ago from at least a dozen different species of trees, some of which approached nearly 200 feet in height.