Petrified Forest National Park spans around 346 square miles of semi-desert shrub steppe and highly eroded and colorful badlands in northeastern Arizona. The park is a blend of short grass prairie and ...

History of Petrified Forest National Park Eastern Arizona is home to one of the United States’ most famous national parks. Petrified Forest National Park contains thousands of acres of preserved ...

Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park in the U.S. with a section of old Route 66. The park is also home to a "rainbow" forest, which has colorful tree fossils that are more than 200 ...

Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most surprising places in the American Southwest. It’s an otherworldly mix of colorful badlands, ancient petroglyphs, historic Route 66 nostalgia, and the ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park: North America's oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species - a flying ...

If your destination is Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, or even Las Vegas, add a pit stop to see another National Park Service site in Northern Arizona. Petrified Forest National Park is just a few hours ...

Petrified Forest National Park announced a major restoration of its northern visitor center and park headquarters this week. Although construction is not scheduled to begin until September, the ...

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change. What secrets do ...