Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. “People come to Petrified Forest ...

A scenic audio tour by car is one of the best ways to explore Petrified Forest National Park, the only national park in the U.S. that contains a section of Historic Route 66. Take in jaw-dropping ...

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 ...

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 ...

For such an arid, stark landscape, Petrified Forest National Park has a remarkably dissimilar past. The southern Arizona park sits in a desert and receives just about 10 inches of rain a year. Quite ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Petrified Forest National Park is Arizona's least visited national park. I stopped at the park on a recent road trip across America's Southwest. I discovered colorful fossilized logs, uncovered ...